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Vada Pav, Mumbai’s pride, has been rated as the world’s 13th finest Sandwich Every state has a signature food that is popular throughout the country. Similarly, Vada Pav, a popular snack in Maharashtra, has been named the world’s 13th finest sandwich by Taste Atlas. Taste Atlas announced the rating in a Twitter post. Any Mumbaikar would tell you that their favourite street snack is ‘Vada Pav’ without a doubt. This humble sandwich is loved by many people and can be eaten for breakfast, lunch, late snack time, or even dinner. And now, Vada pav’s popularity has garnered it global acclaim, with the street delicacy named…

India to ship 20,000 tonnes of Wheat to Afghanistan via Chabaha  The MEA stated on Tuesday that India will transfer its next cargo of wheat to Afghanistan under the Taliban administration via Chabahar. The decision was revealed during the inaugural meeting of the India-Central Asia Joint Working Group (JWG) on Afghanistan in Delhi, following the expiry of an agreement with Pakistan to extend the time for shipping wheat through land route, and efforts to prolong the period had failed. While India had provided around 40,000 metric tonnes (MT) of the 50,000 MT pledged last year following an agreement with the former PM…

Marks & Spencer and TCS are expected to reach a $1 billion deal Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), the largest software exporter in the nation, is about to finalize several transactions worth $1 billion with British retailer Marks & Spencer. The IT firm, however, has not officially confirmed the acquisition and labeled it “market speculation”. The report claims that many transactions between TCS and Mark & Spencer, totaling $1 billion, will be finalized in the upcoming weeks. Notably, TCS and Marks and Spencer have been working together since 2018. For more than 80,000 of Marks and Spencer’s employees, the Indian IT…

Six typical work patterns for UAE employees have been identified by the Ministry of Human Resources and Emiratization (MoHRE). The work patterns, which include full-time, part-time, and temporary contracts, identify and describe the type of employment. The MoHRE used social media to describe the various options available to workers in the United Arab Emirates. The law governing the labor market in the United Arab Emirates, according to a tweet, “offers a variety of work patterns, intending to better the work environment and attract national and international talents to the private sector.” Six work patterns were then noted;

GQG Investments’ Rajeev Jain will inform investors this week about its Rs 15,446 crore investment in the Adani Group. GQG (GQG Partners) chairman and chief investment officer Rajiv Jain will meet with customers and investors in Australia this week to discuss the business’s reasoning for investing in Gautam Adani’s enterprise, according to a statement from the company. Rajeev Jain will be visiting Australia for the first time since the firm was listed in Australia in 2021. GQG Partners invested Rs 15,446 crore in four Adani Group firms with Adani Green Energy Limited, Adani Transmission Ltd, Adani Enterprises Ltd, and Adani Ports and Special Economic Zone Ltd receiving investments from GQG. The transaction was completed…

Captain Deeksha C. Mudadevannanavar is the first female officer to be commissioned into the Parachute Regiment of the Indian Army’s elite special forces unit. She hails from Davangere in the state of Karnataka. In October 2019, Captain Deeksha C. Mudadevannanavar was appointed to the MH Golconda of the Indian Army via the Short Service Commission (SSC). Captain Deeksha was a member of the National Cadet Corps (NCC), and after being promoted, she continued her training for the MOBC at the Army Medical Corps Center in Lucknow. The Indian Army’s Medical Corps officers must complete the MOBC as a prerequisite. After…

On Monday, Hero MotoCorp announced a collaboration agreement with US-based Zero Motorcycles to develop luxury electric bikes. The relationship combines Zero’s experience in designing powertrains and electric bikes with Hero MotoCorp’s size of production, procurement, and marketing, according to the country’s largest two-wheeler manufacturer. Hero MotoCorp’s board of directors authorized a $60 million equity investment in Zero Motorcycles, a prominent leader in electric bikes and powertrains, in September 2022. Pawan Munjal, Chairman and CEO of Hero MotoCorp, said that the collaboration with Zero Motorcycles marks an important step in the mission to usher in an age of sustainable clean mobility technologies. He added that the team is excited to accelerate the transition…

The Coimbatore-based start-up company “Vilvah” creates skincare products that are made entirely of natural materials. The brand has been trending on social media lately. However, the road to creating such a brand was a passionate one. Kruthika Kumaran, founder of Vilvah, has witnessed her mother’s battle with severe skin conditions since childhood. She says that her mother is the reason she set out to create her own natural soap. As an initial step, she enrolled herself in a natural cosmetology course to understand the making of such products. starting with goat milk-based soap. Today, Vilvah offers a range of products, including soaps, hair…

Ruhani Verma, an Amritsar native, has constructed what she claims is India’s first carbon-negative public toilet out of 100% recycled or recyclable material using four lakh bags of single-use plastic. MP Gurjeet Aujla and airport director V K Seth inaugurated ‘Toilet 01,’ dubbed Swachh-Alyaa, at the Sri Guru Ram Das Jee International Airport in Amritsar. The 18-year-old, who plans to study sustainable architecture in the future, said that the central idea of this project is sustainability and that she aimed to build India’s first structure using environmentally friendly bricks. Around 30% of the brick used to construct the toilet is made of single-use plastic, while the…

In connection with the development of the product suite ‘cerviSCAN’ for efficient cervical cancer screening, the Centre for Advanced Computing Development (C-DAC) inked a ToT agreement with Sertal Electronics Pvt. Ltd.  C-DAC has developed it and it has been verified in numerous facilities across the Country, screening over 10,000 women. The Secretary of the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology, Alkesh Kumar Sharma, remarked during the event that the Government’s objective is to make India a global leader in Artificial Intelligence. According to him, the Government is aiming to provide high-quality connection as well as low-cost mobile phones, laptop computers, and data…