Rising India Star

Rising India Star : Young entrepreneur and Punjabi NRI, Gurbani Kour (31) is all set to start operations of her unique start up 'Seedstart' in Punjab . Gurbani is a dynamic entrepreneur who was born in Jammu , and raised in Punjab and United Kingdom . Presently she is based in London . Gurbani's venture 'Seedstart' is coming up with an innovative concept of enabling farmers to get a fair share of their produce, through 'Seedstart's' retail chain.   Gurbani Kour: Punjabi NRI entrepreneur from  UK   "For me, India and particularly Punjab have always been close to my heart. My roots are here in the soil, and even after all these years, my urge to do something in my homeland is as fresh as it was when I was a kid. The initiative is my way of giving something positive back to my parent-state. The  project is under development and the first store is slated to open in November this year. For the first phase, we are opening over 200 retail outlets in ...

New Delhi : Shital Verma, one of the most talented and creative illustrators of the country, has been honoured by Creative Gaga (CG), a highly talked about magazine in the art circles, for his extraordinary designing skills. His profile and art work has got featured in the first volume edition of the CG’s “Best Indian Illustrators”. He is National Design Editor of Navbharat Times. On this recognition, Shital smilingly said, “It was a dream come true moment for me, feeling like on cloud nine to be featured on CG’s Best Indian illustrators, Volume 1 edition. I had never thought of a national level recognition by such a noted publication in the Design and Commercial Art world. I started my career as an illustrator way back in1995 with a publication house in Allahabad , and later switched to Graphic Design and Art Direction. However, illustration is my core competency and for the past 6 years I have sharpened my lost skills again and practiced with various mediums, like ball-pen, charcoal...

New Delhi :  25th International Conference on Non-Ferrous Metals 2021 was held on 3rd and 4th September 2021 at Hotel Le-Meridian,  New Delhi . Corporate Monitor teamed up with JNARDDC, Aluminium Association of India , Material Recycling Association of India and Ministry of Mines for this International Conference. Shri Sanjay Lohiya , IAS. Add Secretary, Ministry of Mines , Govt of India inaugurated   the conference  in the august presence  of the Heads of public and private sector organisations  dealing with Non ferrous  minerals  and metals like CMD of NALCO, Director of HCL and Vedanta , CEO- Copper Business Hindalco . The event provided an excellent platform to bring together  the Indian Non ferrous industry with the  international metal industry and also provided an opportunity to  share the view points and discuss the best practices, benchmarks technological advancements innovations and opportunities of collec...

Nila Madhab Panda started his celluloid journey with the acclaimed ‘I am Kalam’. His subsequent work focused equally on environmental as well as children's issues. He is excited to steer another project that has a child as a central character. Explaining his recurrent interest in such stories, he says, "India is a country with a 28.6% children population, and yet we have very few films which are children centric or talking about their issues". Debutant director Anuj Tyagi's Bishwa is based on the life of a blind boy and how he emerges as a hero in a village near the mesmerizing Chilika lake. The film has a highly-skilled cast and has Vinay Pathak, Yagya Bhasin, Sharib Hashmi (Family Man fame) and national-award-winning actress Usha Jadhav in pivotal roles. Bishwa is shot entirely in the mesmerizing beauty of Odisha, right before the lockdown started. Nila Madhab Panda, who is born and brought up in Odisha has always shown his love for Odisha through his films. But thi...

  Prakasam (AP): Gnana Sai Bezawada from Ongole, Prakasam, Andhra Pradesh (born on December 21, 2017) has got appreciation from the India Book of Records (IBR) for showing extra ordinary skills in learning and memorizing different things quickly. She has been recognized for identifying 23 animals, twelve colours, answering 10 GK questions, 20 national symbols, translating 25 words from Hindi to English, reciting the English alphabets, capitals of 42 countries and all Indian states, at the age of three years and three months. Gnana’s mother says, “She likes to learn new things very quickly and her grasping power made her to achieve this milestone. We noticed her potential and trained in different skills. I observed her grasping new skills at the tender age of two years and started training in various things. For the India Book of Records videos, she took hardly 10 to 12 days time. The biggest challenge was that she is always showing interest in learning new things rather than th...

Mohali (Punjab): In the midst of the current 'Health Crisis', people should remain concerned about their health which will not only laid a foundation of a healthy society but also build a healthy nation at large. Zirakpur MLA N. K. Sharma expressed his viewpoint during the inauguration of Shri Guru Ramdas Charitable Diagnostic Center at Sodhi Complex, VIP Road, Zirakpur.  On this occasion, he exhorted the people that in the present competitive and stressful era, people should maintain their health checks regularly so that these diseases do not take a formidable form in the advancing age. During the occasion, the directors of the center, Parminder Singh Gill and Satnam Singh said that the objective of this initiative is to express our responsibility towards society. Tests will be done in the center at concessional rates so that health services will be available to the residents of Zirakpur at affordable rates.  They informed that the ultrasound service is available in the cent...

Pune: Anaisha Anish Kering of Pune, Maharashtra has got her name entered into the India Book of Records (IBR) for showing extraordinary memory abilities at a young age of six years two months. Anaisha can recite and spell the 10 longest words in English language in three minutes, including – neumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis (45 letters), Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia (36 letters) and a 34 letters word - supercalifragilisticexpialidocious, as per Merriam Webster dictionary. What was the inspiration behind this record? She says, "It started off as a fun game to try and spell a 30-letter word, which I did easily. So from one word, it went on to 2, 3, 4 and eventually 10. My mother inspired and motivated me to do something different and unique and so I did it."  It took her around two weeks to learn everything thoroughly and master it. Her mother taught the words, their pronunciation, the meaning and the spellings. While recording the recital, a funny i...