Fortis Escorts Heart Institute awarded Golden Globe Tigers Award

Fortis Escorts Heart Institute (FEHI), India’s first fully dedicated cardiac care facility, pioneer and Centre of Excellence in Cardiac Care for over 27 years, was awarded the prestigious Golden Globe Tigers Award for their Critinext initiative in the category of ‘Innovation in Quality of Service delivery’ at an event held in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia recently. Critinext was selected for its innovative e-ICU model that provides intensive care beyond boundaries.

Critinext, Asia’s first e-ICU model is a fusion of critical care skills; technology and innovation to provide compassionate round the clock intensive care to patients at select remote locations. It enables remote unit doctors to manage critically ill patients at site instead of transferring them to metros. Critinext is an important step in extending quality and world class critical care to patients from remote locations where there is dearth of adequate critical care clinics. It instils technological excellence, critical care skills, dedication and compassion to create an integrated critical care delivery system. It is equipped to monitor 310 ICU beds in around 10 cities across India with an inbuilt mechanism to attend an average of 5000 alerts every day.

It uses an intensive electronic medical record, audio visuals and smart alert system as rapid response tools and provides round the clock monitoring, assessment, support and interventional service throughout the year. Today, Critinext manages 350 ICU beds. The team at the Critinext includes Intensivist, Physician Assistant, Critical Care Nurse and Technical Officer.

Speaking on the occasion, Dr Amit Varma, Executive Director, Critinext, FEHI, said, “This global recognition is an encouragement for the entire team. The award has appreciated the effort to provide innovative and quality healthcare service to our patients from remote locations. Today, it has become a boon especially for patients from non-metro centres as they can now avail the best of critical care facility available in India through Critinext.”

FEHI, where the Critinext centre is located, is a pioneer in cardiac care with many firsts to its credit. With Critinext, FEHI has been able to extend its clinical excellence to non-metro centres where critical care and quality medical care may not be adequate. The patients, who are critically ill and are not advised to travel out, will no longer have to undertake critical journey and can get quality critical care in their hometowns at real time.

Dr Somesh Mittal, Zonal Director, FEHI, said, “This is a proud moment for the entire team at FEHI. We are happy that this innovative technology is recognised for providing critical care support to patients. We are proud of highly skilled team of critical care experts who supported patients by offering them with acute inputs through this unique initiative. We remain committed to offer the best of medical solutions and excel in clinical excellence through our sustained effort to innovate and quality service delivery.”

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CtrlS Wins a Hat-trick of CIO Choice Award

CtrlS Datacenters Ltd., the leading cloud, managed services provider and Asia's largest Tier-4 datacenters operator, bagged the CIO Choice 2015 honor third time in a row for 'DR as a Service' and 'Hybrid Cloud' categories at the CIO Choice Awards - Red Carpet Night event held in Mumbai.

The awards are organized by The Centre of Recognition & Excellence with KPMG as partners. CIO Choice trust seal is validation of CIO community and ICT decision makers' trust in the recognized brand. Winners are determined through an independent CIO voting survey from across the country on product performance, customer satisfaction and continued customer service. It is the first 'By the CIO and for the CIO' recognition platform. It offers the CIO community an authentic aid to finding and considering the most preferred and stable products, services and solutions.

"We are delighted to receive this award third year in a row, which is recognition of the trust and faith laid by our customers in us and I would like to take this opportunity to thank them for their continued support. It has always been and shall be our focus to provide you with good products of the highest quality with high availability through many years. We are making significant investments towards state-of-the-art infrastructure, new data centers, new technologies etc. This, you would agree, is all aimed at augmenting your future technology expansion," said Mr. Sridhar Pinnapureddy, Founder & CEO, CtrlS.

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Gold award for the Income Tax Department

The Income Tax Department has been awarded GOLD by the Government of India under category “Cat-I-Excellence in Government Process Re-engineering” for National Award on e-governance 2014-15. The award has been conferred for “TDS Reconciliation Analysis & Correction Enabling System (TRACES)” project launched by the Department.

The Project marks a major step in ensuring TDS compliance through the processing of TDS returns and comprehensive data processing of TDS statements using technology driven end-to-end processes. At present 15 Lakh deductors and 2.5 crore tax payers are using various e-enabled online services through the CPC (TDS).

The award was presented today during the 18th National Conference on e-governance held at Mahatma Mandir, Gandhinagar, Gujarat. This third award on e-governance to the Income Tax Department in the last 5 years speaks volumes about the commitment of the Department to e-governance and to move towards a non-adversarial and tax-payer friendly regime.

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Doha Bank CEO Honored as “Banking Innovator” at the Indian Innovator Awards

Doha Bank CEO Honored as “Banking Innovator” at the Indian Innovator Awards 

Dubai, United Arab Emirates Dr. R. Seetharaman, Group CEO, Doha Bank, the leading private commercial Bank in Qatar, was distinguished as a ‘Banking Innovator’ at this year's Indian Innovator Awards, Entrepreneur of the Year. The Award function was held at Westin Dubai, on December 09, 2014. Leading Entrepreneurs and Bankers from GCC participated in this event.


Speaking at the event Dr. Seetharaman gave insight on Global and regional economy. He said, “The US economy continues to recover and the dollar index has all reached all time highs recently which acknowledge the same. Japan and Eurozone struggle to recover. The slowdown in Chinese economy has also created concerns in financial markets. The GCC capital markets had fallen recently on account of fall in oil price after no action in the OPEC meeting. The Indian economy is reflecting confidence under the new government and the inflation pressures are easing.”

Dr. Seetharaman gave insight on business and technology trends in the Banking industry. He said “The costs of regulation and competitive pressures will lead to industry consolidation. Technology has transformed the way we bank and is one of the main drivers behind the accelerating pace of innovation in this sector. Online banking, mobile banking, chip and pin have now become part of our way of life for everyday banking. New non competitors have emerged in the financial services industry. Some of them include Walmart, Deutsche Postbank AG, La Banque Postale and Virgin Money. Online banking, payments, personal and business financial planning and credit are just a few of the areas targeted by such firms.”

Dr. Seetharaman gave his outlook on GCC Banking Sector. He said “Banks in the UAE have been prime beneficiaries of a revival in which the economy grew by more than 4 per cent last year as interest rates reached new lows and credit growth rebounded. In Saudi Arabia, private sector lending had grown by more than 11 per cent till Sept 2014. Public Sector lending had gone up by close to nine per cent till September 2014. In September 2014, Saudi Arabia's Bank watchdog introduced new regulations that cap retail lending and curb the fees that lenders can charge. In Oman, Lending grown is close to nine per cent till September 2014. Banks are trying to offset lower margins through additional fee generation. Banks lending to the private sector grew close to four per cent YTD till September 2014. In Qatar lending growth is more than ten per cent till Sept 2014.The Retail, Contracting and services sector are the key sectors which contribute to growth in 2014.”

Dr. Seetharaman highlighted the impact of digital banking. He said, “Digital Banking will be new channel to improve revenue growth and cross sell. The financial institutions will aim to improve customer experiences through innovative offerings in digital banking. Banks must connect with their customers every day. To be successful in the market, banks must engage every day, and to do this they must also promote and sell non-financial services. The bank can invites customers through social media channels and make customers emotionally involved. Social network enables Bank to be in close touch base with customers. Local GCC banks appear well positioned to build on a solid online banking trend. The digital banking has revolutionised Bank customer relationships.”

Dr. Seetharaman gave insight on Cyber security and related risk management. He said “Technology has increased many of the traditional Information security risks associated with banking activities. With the significant change on how Bank’s do business these days the rules have changed and the information security risks are greater than ever. The risks have further compounded today due to Privacy concerns, Vulnerabilities, Cyber terrorism, Insider Sabotage, Mobile Computing, Wireless Access and Spyware. Regulations are undergoing change to support managing Information Security Risk for financial institutions. Many Banks have established information security function, as part of its key functions and formed Information Security Councils, supported by the Bank’s executives. Bank’s introduce new Policies and Standards that addresses the dynamic nature of Information Security.”

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Bombay Jayashri, Indian singer nominated for 85th Academy Awards

The Indian Carnatic music vocalist Bombay Jayashri is nominated to the 85th Academy Awards in the category of Music Original Score. She sang the Pi’s Lullaby for the movie ‘Life of Pi’ under the direction of music director Mychael Danna for which she got the nomination.

Bombay Jayashri is one of the leading singers in Tamil Cinema. She is an international fame with performances from New Delhi to New York. She has performed at the Rashtrapati Bhawan in Delhi, World Music Institute - New York; University of Arizona; University of Texas; MIT; University of Louisiana; Cornell University and Amherst College.

She has also performed at The Royal Opera House - Durban, Monash University - Melbourne and Esplanade Theater - Singapore. She has received many state and national level honors in India and also won FilmFare awards for her singing in Tamil cinema Minnale in 2002.

She has also sung some Bollywood songs for movies like Rehna Hai Tere Dil Mein, Force and Phir Milenge.

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Ms. Sunita narula gets lions club of Delhi teachers excellence award 2012

New Delhi : Lions Club of Delhi has given this year’s Teacher's Excellence Award to Ms. Sunita Narula, New Era Public School, Mayapuri with for her meritorious services. The Award ceremony was organized at India International Centre, Lodhi Estate, New Delhi yesterday evening.

Chief Guest & Award given by Smt. Satinder Kaur, Addl. Director (Education) Govt. of NCT of Delhi to Ms. Sunit Narula, New Era Public School, Maya Puri, New Delhi.

Lions Club International is the largest service organization in the world with nearly 1.5 million members spread in 206 countries across the globe. Lions Club of Delhi has the unique distinction of being the first Chartered Club in India and launching this unique initiative in February 1956. Our club has, since then been continuously serving the cause of the less fortunate and under privileged people in our society.

In a developing country like India teachers have a major role to play to shape the future citizens of the country and build a strong nation. Every year, on the occasion of Teachers Day, our club has been honoring meritorious teachers. This year also our club decided to honor the teaching fraternity at a special function, presided over by an eminent personality, to be held on 22 September 2012.

For More detail, please contact :
Sunit Narula
093129 44740

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