Day: October 11, 2019

Peter England, leading international menswear brand from Aditya Birla Fashion and Retail Ltd. is all set to give fashion lovers a reason to rejoice this festive season. The menswear brand has announced a grand festive promotional offer, the Scratch Card Campaign for its stylish patrons.

Bazaarvoice, Inc announced expansion of its global Software Engineering operations to India. The digital marketing company is establishing a new presence in Bengaluru, focused on increasing its innovation capacity beyond the corporate headquarters in Austin, Texas. A press release said, by the end of 2020, approximately 30 per cent of the company’s engineers will be based out of Bengaluru.

Extending full support to the new management, Yes Bank’s single-largest shareholder and co-promoter, the late Ashok Kapur’s daughter Shagun Gogia said the issues of governance and transparency are fully dealt with now. Gogia, who was recently inducted to the board of the troubled private sector lender, also said her family was fine with lowering their shareholding below the present 8.33 per cent in case a big investor comes on board at the end of the ongoing capital-raising exercise.

Renowned saxophone exponent Kadri Gopalnath died at a private hospital here early today, family sources said. He was 69 and had been ailing for some time.

Haier recently unveiled Smart AI-enabled Android LED TV – the ‘U6900’ Series. The Google-certified Smart TV ranging in 126 cm (50), 139 cm (55),147 cm (58) and 165 cm (65) comes with the latest Android Pie (9.0 version) enabled with AI and Haier’s smart ecosystem. A press release said, Haier’s new Android TV series will enhance the customers’ home by creating a smart IoT Hub.

It is almost a month since Tamilisai Soundararajan was appointed as Telangana Governor. The Tamilnadu unit of the BJP is waiting for a new president to be announced. The State is witnessing by-polls in two Assembly constituencies and there are talks that local body elections may happen soon. Amidst such a scenario, political pundits are wondering why there is a delay in announcing a successor to Tamilisai here.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi arrived here today to attend the second informal meet with Chinese President Xi Jinping.

India slipped to the fourth position in domestic air passenger traffic in August with passenger volume growing 3.7 per cent in the month over the period year-ago, reflecting the deepening crisis in the economy spawned by slumping consumer demand, IATA data show.

An international body of people of Indian origin will honour three Indian-Americans for their contribution in the health field as well as for promoting health awareness among the diaspora. The Global Organisation of People of Indian Origin (GOPIO) will present the Health Council Award to the recipients during the Health Council Summit, organised by it, on Saturday, according to a press release.