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deAsra Foundation encourages entrepreneurship, and promotes job creation in India

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deAsra Foundation inspires entrepreneurship by conducting Entrepreneur Excellence Awards deAsra Foundation, a not for profit organisation from Pune, held  their annual Entrepreneur Excellence Awards function at Dewang Mehta Auditorium, Persistent Systems Ltd., Pune. The Entrepreneur Excellence Awards is deAsra’s way of celebrating entrepreneurship and providing a forum for the successful stories of established entrepreneurs to be shared with a wider community. This award also aims to provide aspiring and existing entrepreneurs an opportunity to learn from their journeys. The awardees of the evening were Milind Shalgar, owner Shalgar Hosiery; Neha Sarang Lagu, Director Lagu Bandhu Jewellers; Dr Vinay Koparkar, Founder & Director, Papillon Hair & Face Clinic; Mandar Desai, owner Desai Bandhu Ambewale, and Mr. Hanmant Gaikwad, Founder and owner of BVG. These awardees were honoured by Dr. Anand Deshpande, Founder of deAsra Foundation and Founder, CEO of Persistent System

QNET Entrepreneurs kick off Festive Season by Raising Funds for Underprivileged Community in 21 Cities including Pune

Money raised to fund essential goods for orphanages, old-age homes, and others in need 39 events planned across 21 cities in the country Pledged sums ranging from INR 50,000 to INR 1 Lakh in each city Pune, October 16, 2018: Independent representatives of Direct Selling company QNET have once again come together to brighten up the festive season for the underprivileged. In a series of events spread across 21 cities throughout India, various groups of Independent Representatives have come forward to raise money to help the underprivileged communities. Around 100 young entrepreneurs, who run a successful direct selling business with QNET, have pledged between INR 50,000 to INR 1 lakh per city towards important causes benefiting a local community in need. This is the fourth year that these entrepreneurs have initiated such an exercise during the festival season to reinforce their commitment to helping communities and their own belief in the spirit of giving. Funds raised by t

Payoneer Features in CB Insights List of Top 250 Fastest-Growing Fintech Companies Globally

Payoneer recognized for its contribution in the cross-border payments and global e-commerce Payoneer is the only fintech company present in India that provides cross-border payment services exclusively for the B2B trading/segment to have been featured in the list Pune, India, October 23, 2018  –  Payoneer , an innovative cross-border payments company that drives global eCommerce, has been featured in the CB Insights 2 nd annual top 250 companies in Fintech sector, the only fintech company that provides cross-border payment services exclusively for B2B trading sellers and freelancers to have made it to the list. Commenting on this achievement,  Payoneer’s Country Head, Rohit Kulkarni  said, “Payoneer does not just limit itself to transfer of payments, but our bigger goal is to enable Indian sellers to take global strides and sell more in international markets. India is a key strategic market for us, and with sellers and services on the rise who do cross-border trading, our missi

KPIT Second Quarter Results FY 2019

Q2FY19 reported EBITDA at 13.6%, growth of 62.5% Y-o-Y, 19.3% Q-o-Q Q2FY19 Constant Currency Revenue growth of 2.9% Q-o-Q, Constant Currency Revenue growth of 9.8% in H1FY19 over H1FY18 Investor Release  BSE: 532400 | NSE: KPIT   India, October 24, 2018:  KPIT (BSE: 532400; NSE: KPIT), a global technology company specializing in providing IT Consulting and Product Engineering solutions and services to Automotive, Manufacturing, Energy and Utilities companies, today reported its consolidated financial results for the second quarter and half year ended September 30, 2018. Highlights for the quarter ended September 30, 2018 ₹ Revenues grow 6.4% Q-o-Q and 17.8% Y-o-Y Net Profit for the quarter registers a Y-o-Y growth of 37.4% Operational EBITDA for the quarter at 15.2% Reassuring increase in Pipeline, led by large deals in Engineering BMW today announced KPIT as a technology partner for Autonomous Driving  M anagement comments Commenting on the performance of Q2 FY19, K

deAsra Foundation’s second Entrepreneurs Excellence Awards 2018 to be held on 26th October

In a bid to inspire aspiring entrepreneurs and promote entrepreneurship, deAsra foundation is all set to organise its second Entrepreneurs Excellence Awards 2018 that is going to be held on Friday, 26th October 2018 6:00 PM onwards at the Dewang Mehta Auditorium, Persistent Systems, Senapati Bapat Road, Pune. Before the award ceremony, people will get an excellent networking opportunity to interact and connect with deAsra’s entrepreneurs and mentor community 5:15 pm onwards. These awards will be given to five successful entrepreneurs from various sectors such as food, fashion, beauty and more. Prominent names include; Mr. Hanmant R. Gaikwad, Chairman & Managing Director, BVG India Ltd., Mr. Milind Shalgar, owner Shalgar Hosiery, Ms. Neha Sarang Lagu, Director Lagu Bandhu Jewellers, Dr. Vinay Koparkar, Founder & Director, Papillon Hair & Face Clinic, Mr Mandar Desai, Owner Desai Bandhu Ambewale, will be honored. These dignitaries will also felicitate five deAsra-empowered

Puranik Builders Limited gets SEBI Nod for its IPO

Puranik Builders Limited, prominent residential real estate developers in Mumbai Metropolitan Region ( MMR ) and Pune Metropolitan Region ( PMR ) gets SEBI clearance for its IPO. Puraniks which has a longstanding presence of over 28 years in the real estate market in India, developing residential projects in the mid-income affordable housing segment in the MMR and the PMR real estate markets filed IPO papers with SEBI in June, 2018. The IPO consists of a Fresh Issue of up to Rs 810 crore and an Offer for Sale of up to 1,859,620 Equity Shares by Promoters of the company up to 238,796 equity shares by Shailesh Puranik, up to 100,768 equity shares by Shrikant Puranik, up to 100,751 equity shares by Yogesh Puranik, up to 235,015 equity shares by Nilesh Puranik, up to 591,410 equity shares by Ravindra Puranik and up to 592,880 equity shares by Gopal Puranik The company plans to utilize the proceeds of IPO for: Prepayment or repayment of all or a portion of certain outstanding borr

Hon'ble Shri. Prakashji Javadekar Inaugurates Robotic Assisted Joint Replacement Centre at Shashwat Hospital

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Robotic Assisted Joint Replacement Centre at Shashwat Hospital was inaugurated at the hands of Chief Guest Hon'ble, Shri. Prakash Ji Javadekar, Minister of Human Resource Development, Government of India and Mrs Medha Kulkarni, MLA Pune. Robotic-assisted joint replacement surgery uses a robotic system to aid a surgeon during a surgical procedure. The robot-assisted system eliminates the possibilities of human error and its benefits include; High accuracy, more natural knee motion, small incisions, minimal pain and blood loss etc.  Using Robot-assisted surgery helps to prevent human error as well as gives best results to the patient, after the surgery same day the patient can walk more confidently, also gets the discharge within three days which results in minimum hospital stay, reduces the use of painkiller medicines, no need of physiotherapy. Overall, the robotics has become a boon for the patients. Shri. Prakash Javadekar said, “ This significant change in the medical