Birla Institute of Management Technology (BIMTECH), Greater Noida in association with MART, a leading rural marketing and livelihood consultancy organized its flagship event “INDIAN MARKETING SUMMIT” on ‘Inclusive Marketing: Innovative Strategies for the Development of Masses’ on 22 -23 Feb.,’08. BIMTECH’s 2nd Indian Marketing Summit (IMS) provides a platform from where India’s business leaders, decision makers from government, corporate practitioners, donor agencies, NGOs, senior managers and academicians discuss and share insights and experiences on key issues of national interest.

The structure of summit includes a number of sessions on specific sub-themes related to this overall theme. BIMTECH’s 2nd Indian Marketing Summit will comprise 6 sessions in all - The Reality of Mass Market; Impediments to Address the Real Problems at the base of the Socio Economic Strata; Innovation in Marketing Strategies; Appropriate Technological Interventions to Improve the quality of life; Role of PPP in empowering the Down Trodden and Valedictory Session.

“The subject, Inclusive Marketing is of great relevance to any economy which has to maintain a uniformity in its growth, which is characterized by development at all levels of the society.”Inclusive Marketing” will require identifying key stakeholders and developing a vision ensuring better tomorrow for the masses through capacity building,” is what Ms. Rama Bijapurkar, Market Strategy Consultant had to say.

Speaking at the event, Mr. Pradeep Kashyap, CEO, MART & Chief Mentor of the Summit said, “Inclusive Marketing looks at poor as both producer and consumer. In India there are 650 million people who survive on the income which is less than US$ 1 per day. Comprising 30% of India’s market, this section of the population is viewed as a bin for obsolete products. And here comes the responsibility of the corporate sector who look at this section as a potential rural market. Appreciting the initiatives taken by ITC e-chaupal and project SHAKTEE, he emphasized that rural marketing should try to include poor in the pre market system and work towards getting this 650 million people out of poverty.

Working as an advisor for rural development for the last 20 years, he added that Rural Marketing so far is not a sustainable model since it depends largely on funding. Hence steps need to be taken to increase the scale of production and generate profitability.”

Dr. H Chaturvedi, Director BIMTECH said, “BIMTECH strongly believes in contributing to the national development in a strategic manner by providing such platforms. After roaring success last year, BIMTECH’s 2nd Indian Marketing Summit has been specifically designed to address the most critical aspect of Indian Economy – keeping in mind the 11th 5 Year Plan where Inclusive Marketing has been emphasized. Such platforms with high profile speakers like Ms. Rama Bijapurkar, Market Strategy Consultant; Mr. Don Feil, EnterpriseWorks/VITA; Mr. Govind Rajan, HUL; Mr. Sameer Suneja, Perfetti, Mr. U.K.S. Chauhan, NAFED….will make invaluable contribution to help carve the path forward.”

Success of BIMTECH’s 1st Indian Marketing Summit in 2007, had fruitful participation of thought leaders from academia and industry including Dr. Jagdish Seth, Emory University; Dr. Amitava Chatopadhaya, INSEAD; Vineeta Bali, Britannia; Arvind Singhal, Technopack; Kishore Biyani, Futures Group and many more. The summit was highly successful and interactive with a sizeable audience of over 300 participants from industry, academia and more than 60 media agencies. It also had more than 10 sponsors and partners in the panel on various heads. This year, we are thankful to our audiences from 250 B-Schools, 500 Corporate Houses and 50 NGOs to make IMS 2008 an absolute success.

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The Aruba Hotel and Tourism Association (AHATA) announced today that they have awarded Avani Cimcon Technologies the contract to build their next generation destination portal.

The new destination portal will provide a complete experience allowing the user to easily find, navigate and book their entire travel package with the association’s 120+ members. Air, hotel, restaurants and excursions will be among the options offered through the portal. In addition, the site will contain rich media and social networking capabilities along with Association Member tools that will allow for Customer Relationship Management and site specific destination analysis.

AHATA is one of the most unique and progressive hotel and tourism entities in the Americas. For more than four decades it has made significant contributions to Aruba’s tourism industry by bringing together private sector ideas and funding in support of the industry and community at large.

Avani Cimcon Technologies Inc. (avanicimcon.com), based in Santa Rosa, CA, was co-founded by Lomesh Shah and Saurabh Mehta. Avani Cimcon is a global, innovative and leading edge IT company with clients in Australia, New Zealand, Greece and the US. They bring 15 years of software development experience to this project, while specializing in the travel, retail and financial services verticals.

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TIMES NOW, India’s leading English news television channel of 2007, brings to you ‘Budget-O-Nomics – Not Just Numbers’, a special series on Budget 2008. As we near D-Day and anxiety is at its peak, TIMES NOW will present views on the budget that is relevant, unbiased and delivered in a distinctive style, just like the viewers prefer it.

Commenting on the special programming line-up for the Budget, Arnab Goswami, Editor-in-Chief, TIMES NOW says, “By introducing a special budget line up, ‘Budget-O-Nomics’ aims at demystifying Budget 2008 for the common man. Our viewers can be assured of the best, most credible and first hand view of the budget especially with Swaminathan Aiyar and Omkar Goswami giving their exhaustive expert analysis on it.”

Beginning 23rd February until 28th February, TIMES NOW will introduce two special pre-budget shows ‘Budget and the Ballot-box’ and ‘Budget and Global Uncertainties’ to give viewers a detailed perspective of what the forthcoming Union budget holds for them and how India is faring on the global scene. The two-special half-hour shows promise to give viewers some exciting Budget action with Arnab Goswami in a serious tête-à-tête with Budget gurus Swaminathan Aiyar and Dr. Omkar Goswami. Viewers can be assured of live-wire discussions on the Budget with insights from a national, political and people’s perspective.

Swaminathan Iyer, Consulting Editor, The Economic Times, is the author of the much acclaimed book Swaminomics and is also considered to deliver the most conclusive verdict on the Union Budget year after year. Dr Omkar Goswami, Chairperson of CERG Advisory, is one of the best known names in macro-economic analysis and a well known TV personality in his own right.

Viewers can also enjoy the entire live footage of the Railway Minister’s speech on the announcement of the Rail Budget on 26th February 08 and the Finance Ministers Speech on the day of the Union Budget on 28th February 08.

TIMES NOW will also run ‘The Global Footprint’ – a global panel discussion that will air live from studios in Singapore, Beijing, London, Tokyo and New York.

On the day of the budget, experts from TIMES NOW and the Economic Times will share their views all-day long encapsulating the thrills and chills ranging from those of head honchos of the corporate world to those of the common masses. The excitement will also flow into the CII headquarters as top brass experts belt out their views as the FM delivers his speech on Budget 2008.

The excitement just doesn’t end there as TIMES NOW continues with the Budget excitement with a special episode of Newshour and 10PM on the Budget Day.

What will this year’s budget bring and what course will India’s financial graph take and how will it change our lives.

Watch as TIMES NOW brings you indepth analysis, predictions and discussions on the day that will etch India’s fortune for the coming financial year.

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Avani Cimcon Technologies is proud to announce the recent achievement of their Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) based Middleware solution, named DXchange. DXchange has been short-listed by NASSCOM to be profiled in the listing of NASSCOM’s 100 IT Innovators - 2007 at www.nasscom.in/100itinnovators. DXchange is selected as one of the best innovation in the category of “Market facing innovation”. This initiative of NASSCOM recognize organizations that have made innovation a part of their DNA and developed extraordinary and pioneering products and services. It showcases innovation in India and aims to provide a perspective on the concept of innovation and on how Indian IT-ITES companies can explore its various facets.

Saurabh Mehta, Managing Director of Avani Cimcon Technologies, says, “Innovation is an important part of our growth strategies and have emerged with an Intellectual Property. It is an implied promise to our customers and prospects that we are striving constantly to provide with all new technological possibilities helping them achieve their business objective.”

The NASSCOM IT Innovation in India award aims to encourage, support and reward innovative and breakthrough solutions, approaches and recognizes the people and the organizations behind these endeavors.

Avani Cimcon Technologies is proud to be a part of this wonderful league of innovators!

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Sical Logistics Ltd, India’s leading provider of integrated multi-modal logistics solutions for bulk and containerized cargo and offshore logistics, initiated work on the Nagpur Sical Gupta Road Terminal with the ground-breaking ceremony at the road terminal site at the Multimodal International Hub Airport at Nagpur (MIHAN) today. The foundation stone was laid by Hon’ble Shri. Villas Muttemwar, Minister of New & Renewable Energy, Government of India in the presence of guest of honor Shri. Nitin Gadkari, President, BJP Maharashtra, Mr RC Sinha, Vice Chairman and MD Maharashtra Airport Development Company (MADC), Mr Ashwin C Muthiah, Chairman Sical Logistics and Mr Padmesh Gupta, Chairman, Gupta Group of Industries.

A special purpose vehicle, Nagpur Sical Gupta Road Terminal Ltd (NSGRTL), comprising of Sical with 51% stake, MADC with 26% stake and Gupta Coal with 23% stake, will build, operate and manage the road terminal. The total project cost is estimated to be Rs.119.3 crore, with a debt equity ratio of about 1:1. The road terminal will stretch across a 60 hectare plot and have parking facilities for 1,150 vehicles including multi-axle vehicles, warehousing space of 0.5 million sq. ft, 15 hectares of open plots and 45000 sqft of cold storage area.

Speaking on the occasion Mr. R C Sinha, Vice Chairman and MD MADC said, “We are pleased at the initiation of work on the Nagpur Sical Gupta road terminal project. With Sical as our partner in growth, we believe that the upcoming terminal will be of international standards and built within the specified timelines. We expect the Road Terminal to bring in good investments for MIHAN in the future.”

Mr. Ashwin Muthiah, Chairman Sical Logistics said, “Nagpur is the next big international hub and the nucleus for India’s logistics industry. With the development of the country’s largest logistics hubs at MIHAN, the country will witness a new era of world-class infrastructure and state-of-the-art facilities. We begin work on the Sical Road Terminal with much enthusiasm and expect to complete it by January 2009. I am confident that the upcoming Road terminal will set new benchmarks in efficiency of logistics operations across the country.”

Mr Padmesh Gupta, Chairman, Gupta Group of Industries said, “We are delighted to be associated with a player of Sical’s expertise and experience. Being Nagpur based we are very proud to be building the country’s largest road terminal and we look forward to working closely with both Sical and MADC on this project.”

NSGRTL was formed in April 2007 and the shareholders agreement for the project was signed with MADC and Gupta Coal on August 22, 2007.

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Skelta Software, a leader in BPM Workflow solutions has aligned SinformatiX Private Limited as their Value Added Reseller. SinformatiX is a well-known provider of technology solutions and services for telecom and other verticals. SinformatiX will implement Skelta BPM solutions as a part of their solutions and services portfolio.

Speaking of the engagement, Jay Kumar Naidu, VP – Business Development said “SinformatiX has a strong practice in Product Lifecycle Management, Customer Communication Management and Content Management domains, all of which mandate robust BPM workflow functionality. This partnership allows us to leverage on Skelta’s powerful BPM functionality to enhance the value of our customer offerings. We see Skelta BPM playing an integral role in the solutions we design and showcase at our Centers of Excellence”.

Paritosh Shah, Executive VP - Strategic Partnerships, Skelta Software said “We see this partnership as a strategic alignment of our objectives with SinformatiX. SinformatiX’ domain expertise in telecom, BFSI and allied process-centric verticals is a perfect complement to the Skelta suite of BPM products and services. Further, SinformatiX’ proposed expansion into Europe, APAC and other regions augments Skelta’s presence in these areas”.

This new relationship will allow Skelta to intensify its focus on the telecom, BFSI, Automobile, Retail and other verticals in which SinformatiX has an established presence.

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Bajaj Auto Ltd has submitted to the Exchange a copy of the communication dated October 19, 2007 sent to Company shareholders in connection with the performance of the Company for the quarter and half year ended September 30, 2007.

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Satyam Computer Services Ltd has informed the Exchange that: “The Compensation Committee of Directors of the Company allotted 71718 equity shares through circular resolution on November 14, 2007, approved on November 15, 2007 under stock option plans of the Company. We wish to inform you that consequent to the above allotment, the paid up share capital of the company has gone up from 669096010 equity shares of Rs. 2/- each aggregating Rs. 1,338,192,020.00 to 669167728 equity shares of Rs. 2/- each aggregating Rs. 1,338,335,456.00″.

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Located in the foothills of the Himalayas is the majestic Corbett National Park. Home to a variety of flora and fauna, it is famous for its wild population of Tigers, Leopards and Elephants. Corbett national park was established in 1936, as the Hailey National Park. India’s first national park and the first sanctuary to come under Project Tiger, Corbett supports a variety of vegetation making it the ideal habitat for the Tiger and its prey.

Once a popular hunting ground of the British, this 201 square mile park was named in honor of the late Jim Corbett, the legendary hunter-naturalist turned author and photographer who most of his years in this area and contributed in setting up the this park. With the help of the World Wildlife Fund, Project Tiger was launched in Corbett National Park in 1973 and this park was one of the first such tiger reserves in the country.

Other Attractions In Corbett
Ramnagar : Situated in the rich farm belt of Terai, on the southeastern fringes of the great forests, the busy market town of Ramnagar is the main administrative centre for Corbett National Park and Project Tiger. Ramnagar makes a fishing base camp. At Lohachaur, 15-kms north along the River Kosi, good anglers are in with a chance of landing the legendary Mahseer, a redoubtable battling River Carp. Permits to have a go must be sought from the Project Tiger office in Ramnagar; most resorts also arrange all inclusive fishing trips.

Wildlife Viewing : Chital, Sambar, and various other Deer species find refuge in the Savannah grasslands known as the Maidan, behind the campsite to the south, and Tigers are occasionally drawn in looking for prey. Two hour elephant rides, explore this sea of grass, rarely penetrating far into the deep jungles beyond; try to convince your Mahout or Elephant driver to venture in, as they can be quite magical. Come at dusk or dawn; in the heat of the day you probably won’t come across much more than deer among the tall grass. Tiger-sightings are few and far between, but you may be rewarded with fresh pug marks.

Jeep Safari in Corbett : Jeeps Safari, is the most convenient way to travel within Corbett national park, and can be rented for the park trips from Ramnagar, from the KMVN Tourist Lodge and other travel agencies . One bus each day goes to Dikhala from Ramnagar, stopping at the Forest Rest houses en route. Banking and other important tourist facilities are available at Ramnagar and Lucknow.
Note : Bring binoculars, remain quiet, and don’t wear bright colours or strong perfumes.

Best Time to Visit - Jim Corbett National Park
The best visiting season of Corbett is from November 15 to June 15. Corbett remains closed between June 16 and November 14, when the monsoons flood the river beds and cut the fragile road links.

How to Get there
Air : Phoolbagh, Pantnagar at a distance of 50-kms is the nearest airport. Delhi at a distance of 300-kms is the nearest international airport.

Rail : Ramnagar is on the broad gauge track from where the road transport options have to be availed to reach the park. For faster trains and connections to other parts change at Moradabad.

Road : Dhikala is 300-kms from Delhi, 145-kms from Lucknow and 51-kms from Ramnagar. The route from Delhi spans Hapur-Murababad-Ramnagar. The turn off is some 7-kms beyond Muradabad to the left, marked by a small board. The route from Lucknow spans Bareilly–Kichha–Rudrapur–Doraha–Kashipur. Ramnagar is served by frequent buses to and from Nainital and Ranikhet, 112-kms north. Buses arrive every half hour or so after the eight hour trip from Delhi; Delhi Transport corporation run a semi deluxe service, and most of the alternatives are pretty basic.

General Info / Tips
Entry Inside The Corbett National Park : Visitors are advised to reach the gate half an hour in advance to complete the formalities for entry into the park.

Tourist Information Centres : All visitors to Corbett National Park have to obtain permits from the park administration centre at Ramnagar. The closest of the various gates into the Corbett national park, 1-m from central Ramnagar, is on the road to Bijrani camp, 11-km away, a base for day trips. Dhangarhi Gate, 18-kms along the highway north to Ranikhet, provides access to the northern and north western portion of the Jim Corbett Park along the Ramnagar River valley, and to the main camp of Dhikala.

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Bandhavgarh National Park is one of the wild life sanctuaries in the Indian state Madhya Pradesh. The national park is situated at 197 km away north-east of Jabalpur. This wild life park derived its very name from an ancient fort in the area. Bandhawgarh National Park belongs to the Vindhyan mountain ranges of central India and it boasts to have the highest density of tiger population in the country. Now there are about 46 to 52 tigers one can spot here.

Kalchuri Archeological Remains

Kalchuri Archeological Remains :Beside the wildlife, Bandhavgarh is also famous for the archaeological remains of the Kalchuri period that have been found here.

Bandhavgarh Fort

The Bandhavgarhpark area is hilly and is dominated by the majestic Bandhavgarh fort, built in 14th century. The fort and the adjacent hills have a large number of caves belonging to the pre-historic period.

Best Time to Visit - Bandavgarh National Park
The visiting season of Bandhavgarh national park starts from Mid-November to June, as the park remains closed during the monsoon months from July to early November.

How to Get there
Air : Khajurao at 230-kms is the most convenient airport connected by various domestic airline services with Agra, Delhi, Varanasi.

Rail : The nearest railhead Umaria at 30-kms is on the Katni-Bilaspur section of South-Eastern Railway. Another convenient railhead Satna (117-kms) is on the Bombay-Howrah main line of the Central Railway.

Road : Bandhavgarh National Park is situated on the Satna-Umaria & Rewa-Umaria highway. Some of the important road distances are: Khajuraho (via Satna)230-kms, Varanasi (via Rewa) 340-kms, Katni 75-kms, Rewa 115-kms, Umaria 30-kms, Kanha 250-kms. Madhya Pradesh State Transport Bus Services are also available from Rewa, Satna, Katni and Umaria.

General Info / Tips
Note : Visitors are advised to reach the gate half an hour in advance to complete the formalities for entry into the park.

Tourist Information Centres :
1. The Manager, Madhya Pradesh State Tourism Development Corporation Ltd., White Tiger Forest Lodge, Bandhavgarh, Madhya Pradesh.
2. The Divisional forest officer, Divisional Tourist office, Bandhavgarh N. Park, Umaria M.P.

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