Advertorial: Plan India, working for the underprivileged

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Plan India is an Indian NGO working to improve the lives of underprivileged children like Kamlesh*, their families and communities through an approach that puts children at the centre of community development.

Since 1979, we have been working with our partners to help children access their rights to proper healthcare, basic education, healthy environment, protection from abuse and exploitation and participation in decisions that affect their lives. We encourage children to express their views and be actively involved in improving their communities.

CII to organise EXCON 2011 in Bangalore

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Bangalore Bangalore will play host to South Asia's largest trade fair for construction equipment and technology from November 23, 2011. The prestigious five-day exhibition - organised by the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) and now in its sixth year - features more than 600 exhibitors that include 200 leading international companies.

The exhibition is being organised over 2,00,000 square meters of the Bangalore International Exhibition Centre and will showcase the world's finest construction equipment, host an 'Infrastructure Dialogue - Roads & Highways' and a Conference on 'ECE Industry - Vision 2020 and Beyond' by IECIAL.

Advertorial: MasterChef India 2 is bigger, better and bolder

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Having hosted MasterChef India season 1, Chef Kunal Kapoor is not just a seasoned Chef, but a seasoned judge too. This time around, he says MasterChef India 2 will be bigger, better and bolder while obviously keeping the fun quotient intact.

Working as Senior Sous Chef for The Leela Kempinski, Chef Kunal will be exploring new horizons along with the contestants while following his passion for cooking. He can't wait to see how the contestants take up challenges this time around. 'Anyone can cook', is the mantra he is going to follow.

Advertorial: Schneider Electric - Making the most of your energy!

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A business takes a lot from the society, nature, and its people to thrive and therefore, it is only fair to give them back something in return. CSR is an important success factor for businesses in today's economy. Professor Klaus Schwab - Executive Chair, World Economic Forum – January 2008 opines that companies are obliged to CSR initiatives because they are not only 'engaged with their stakeholders, but are themselves stakeholders alongside governments and civil society.'

Hence, business leaders should lead the way to sustainable development efforts and address ‘paramount global challenges, including climate change.’

Advertorial: Asha loves you, you made her smile

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Asha loves you because she is like any other child who lives with her mother and her brothers and sisters. Thanks to sponsorship and support from people like you, Asha lives in an SOS Children’s Village in a loving home with a caring mother to take care of her and her siblings who are parentless like her.

However, more children like Asha needs your continued support and care as resources to keep SOS Villages like Asha's alive are dwindling owing to increased abandonment of children and reduced sponsorship and corporate funding.

Suzlon powers a new brand initiative: p.a.l.s.

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Mumbai: Powering a greener tomorrow, India's leading wind power company, Suzlon, has launched a new brand campaign called p.a.l.s. – the Pure Air Lovers’ Society. P.a.l.s. is a movement to emphasize the importance of clean air, while helping to educate people on how to live a more environmentally responsible life.

Identifying the need for a campaign of this nature, p.a.l.s. has already found support from prominent members of society like RJ Malishka, MilindSoman, Gerson da Cunha and Anil Dharker, who are the first p.a.l.s. champions. These champions will be tasked with the responsibility of outlining recommendations and sustaining momentum to ensure the success of the movement.

Advertorial: Love shoes? Find a sole-mate, online!

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Small, big, sensitive, well-heeled or plain finicky – there are shoes for everyone.

Picture this: you browse through 50,000 shoes to find that perfect pair, get the right size and colour, add it to your shopping cart and then eagerly wait for your shoes to arrive at your doorstep. And when it does, the joy of receiving a package, the anticipation of opening it though you already know what’s in it, the thrill of trying on shiny new shoes that you can’t wait to flaunt, and the "New shoes? Nice!" compliments thereafter. Priceless, isn’t it?

V-Guard’s net sales for Q1 of 2011-12 up by 43%

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Kochi: The Board of Directors of V-Guard Industries Limited, the electronic and electrical major today considered and adopted the unaudited financial results of Company for the quarter ended 30th June, 2011.

The net sales of the Company rose to Rs 240.07 crores, showing an increase of 43%, from Rs 168.21 crores, sales in the corresponding period of the previous year. The Company achieved a profit after tax of Rs 12.34 crores during the quarter under review, thereby showing an increase of 11.38% over the profit after tax of 11.08 crores achieved in the same period of the last year.

Advertorial: Hitachi, the AC which cleans itself

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Dust and dirt are possibly the worst enemies of an air conditioner. The dirt which gets stuck in the AC clogs the filter and ultimately leads to poor cooling, increased power consumption, and reduced air volume. Eventually the worse follows. Your AC maintenance costs surge and chances are that you’ll be left with that unpleasant odor rather than the soothing chill you always wanted from your AC.

Keeping all this in mind the Japanese technology major Hitachi has rolled out a range of self-cleaning air conditioners. Launched under the brand name of iClean, these ACs are intelligent, new-age machines which clean themselves by the means of Automatic Filter Cleaning Technology. The interior structure of these ACs is made of stainless steel and is equipped with an advanced cleaning mechanism which ensures that the filter fitted in the AC is meticulously cleaned so that the supply of fresh, clean, cool and soothing air never ceases.

LIC introduces unique new health plan: Jeevan Arogya

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Mumbai: From June 1, 2011 LIC of India is launching a New Non-Linked Health Insurance Plan "Jeevan Arogya". The plan offers comprehensive hospitalization benefits for the whole family of the Principal Insured.

A unique feature of this plan is that it also offers to cover the Parents in-law of the Principal Insured besides spouse, minor children and parents.