SUZUKI TWO-WHEELERS ON A CONSISTENT GROWTH PATH

Records 7.35% increase in sales during September 2014

New Delhi, 1st October, 2014: Suzuki Motorcycle India Pvt. Ltd., a subsidiary of one of the world’s leading two-wheeler manufacturer Suzuki Motor Corporation, registered a 7.35% increase in their September 2014 sales figures as compared to September 2013. Suzuki Motorcycle sold 44,873 units in September 2014 as opposed to 41,799 units in September 2013, recording a strong growth in its overall sales. Suzuki Motorcycles has maintained a consistent growth path over the last couple of years.

Speaking on this strong growth pattern, Mr. Atul Gupta, Executive Vice President, SMIPL, said “We have received a good response from the market for all our products. The growing customer satisfaction has led to positive word-of-mouth in the market. Building on the existing goodwill, the Gixxer and Let’s are gaining strong foothold in the market. We will continue to give the best to our customers.”

A ‘Bandhan’ Welcomed Warmly by Viewers

Grand opening to ‘Bandhan … Saari Umar Humein Sang Rehna Hai’
further strengthens Zee TV’s robust fiction line-up

Zee TV’s latest primetime fiction show Bandhan … Saari Umar Humein Sang Rehna Hai, the first-of-its-kind to delve into an astonishing relationship between a little girl Darpan and Ganesha, a new-born elephant calf that she accepts as her younger brother, has opened up to a very promising viewership of 4366 TVTs, making it the second highest opening soap across GECs in the year 2014, second only to Zee TV’s immensely popular Jamai Raja which had clocked in 5488 TVTs - the highest opening for a soap in the last 2 years!

With more and more viewers tuning into sample this heartwarming story of sibling love between man and animal, Bandhan's launch day ratings of 4325 TVTs have seen a day-on-day increase, closing the week with 4711 TVTS on Friday. 

Zee TV's fiction line-up is growing from strength to strength with one successful launch after another. With Kumkum Bhagya seeing a 171% growth  during its shaadi highpoint (first 4 wk average: 2963 TVTs  & the Shaadi event: 8043 TVTs) and gaining slot leadership in week 34, Jamai Raja emerging as the quickest gainer and attaining slot leadership within 3 weeks of its launch and Jodha Akbar being the consistent slot leader for over a year now, the channel clearly rules the weekday primetime!

 Zee TV Business Head Pradeep Hejmadi says, "The consistent growth of our fiction programming speaks of our relationship with audiences that has only evolved and strengthened over the years. Telling extremely relatable stories that represent the core fabric of contemporary Indian culture, Zee TV's shows have not only struck a chord with the viewers - but given them role models to look up to and fascinating characters they wish they had as their own friends or family. Zee TV represents hope - every story resonates with our core proposition of Umeed. While Jamai Raja challenges conventional mindsets by placing the responsibility of stringing a family together on the son-in-law instead of the bahu, Bandhan transports viewers to a very different world where man accepts an animal as a part of his family and explores the relationships that grow out of it.  We aim to further push the envelope by venturing into genres not attempted before and  stories told from a fresh perspective."  

Creator and Producer Siddharth Kumar Tewary says “I had complete conviction in the thought of telling a human-animal story and the opening ratings are a clear indication of the same. We are happy that our effort of over 2 years is being appreciated by the viewers.  L’il Darpan & the baby elephant Ganesh’s innocent bond of sibling love has struck an instant chord with viewers across all age groups. The journey of the Karnik family has just begun, more interesting facets of their bond with Ganesh are yet to be explored. It's a complete family entertainer. Keep watching…these unlikely brother & sister will become a part of every family.”

Produced by Swastik Productions,  Bandhan transports viewers to a world significantly different from the concretized, urban world most of us inhabit. Set in a real jungle, the show follows little Darpan and her elephant brother on a journey of love & struggle in the big bad world. Stay tuned to Bandhan … Saari Umar Humein Sang Rehna Hai  every Monday to Friday at 7 PM, only on Zee TV.

Anjali Damania and Preeti Sharma Menon resigned as State Convener and State Secretary of Aam Aadmi Party

Anjali Damania and Preeti Sharma Menon resigned as State Convener and State Secretary of Aam Aadmi Party

Message from Anjali Damania and Preeti Sharma Menon

From: Preeti Sharma Menon  Tue, 30 Sep '14 7:38p

To: Anjali Damania

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Dear Friends from the Media

The last three have been an amazing journey where many of ‘aam’ folks have discovered the country as well as our own selves through the IAC movement and then through AAP. However, every adventure ends and our adventure too ends here. Anjali and I have been battling between our family life, our careers and our party responsibilities. Both of us could not cope up with the multi tasking that we had to do. But, we had decided that we would not give up abruptly and would wait till the Mission Vistaar team would come to Maharashtra. Now that Prithvi Reddy and Atishi have taken up the State, it was a huge sigh of relief for us.

Both Anjali and I have resigned as State Convener and State Secretary of Aam Aadmi Party Maharashtra and from the State Executive as we need to give attention to our personal life. We continue to be a supporter of AAP and will always be there to help the party in any way.

We thank you friends from the media, for your support in the past three years. We may have been at loggerheads often but overall we are grateful for your support to us personally, to AAP and to the nation. We request you to take this in the right spirit, we do not wish to give any reaction and sincerely request you to constructively put it before the people. Please understand that for us, everything is not politics. We are some genuine people who have our own set of problems. 

Both Anjali and I jointly make a request your continued support to AAP

Thanking each one of you.

Jai Hind!

Preeti Sharma Menon

Anjali Damania

TRAIN COLLISION NEAR GORAKHPUR IN UTTAR PRADESH

Uttar Pradesh, at least 12 passengers have been killed and 44 others injured in a train accident at Gorakhpur under North Eastern Railway zone.

The engine of Barauni bound Lucknow – Barauni express collided with the coaches of Lucknow bound Maduadih-Lucknow Krishak Express near Gorakhpur station at Nandanagar railway crossing. Four coaches of Krishak express derailed due to the collision.

Senior civil and railway officers have reached the spot to monitor relief and rescue operation. Injured have been admitted to different hospital.

Help line numbers have been opened at several places including Gorakhpur, Lucknow, Varanasi, Deoria and Barauni (Bihar). Gorakhpur`s help line numbers is 05512203565. Lucknow helpline number is 05222233042. Deoria helpline number is 09984872350. Barauni helpline numbers is 06279-231544.

Two numbers working in Varanasi are 0542-2226778 and 0542-2224742. Maduadih helpline number is 09451212242 and Varanasi city helpline number is 09919041978. The drivers of Krishak express have been suspended.

AIR correspondent reports that two trains including Gorakhpur Kanpur Chaurichaura express have been cancelled after the accident. Four trains have been terminated on the way and seven trains are running on diverted routes.

Recognising the strategic acumen of corporates in India

Recognising the strategic acumen of corporates in India Can't see images? Click here... Dear Colleagues, With great pleasure I would like to share an update of Porter Prize 2014 event that was held on September 26, 2014 at Radisson Blu Plaza, Mahipalpur, Delhi. It was an exciting gathering of eminent people from intelligentsia, civil society, business and media etc. The most pertinent thing about the gathering was sharing of ideas and the platform that reflects cutting edge perspectives, powerful reflection and implementable ideas. The event initiated at 04:30 PM with thought provoking panels on Economics, Social Progress & Creating Shared Value and Strategy & Competitive Advantage. We also had keynotes from Professor Michael E. Porter, Sanjiv Mehta, Sashi Ruia and Etienne Benet. The day culminated with a celebration of strategic acumen of Indian coporates through the Porter Prize ceremony wherein Deborah Wince Smith (President and CEO, US Council on Competitiveness) presented the citation to the enterprises recognised. It is time to celebrate the enterprises and strive to emulate the best practices that they reflect so as to take India forward and make it a competitive nation. I would like to personally thank all the enterprises that participated in the initiative, partners and the other stakeholders involved. We look forward to continuing the legacy of the awards in the coming years and make it a success in future. Process for the next awards scheduled to take place in September 2015 will start from April 2015 with nominations. For more information about the awards you can look at www.porterprize.in or write to me atamit.kapoor@competitiveness.in Look forward to your continuing support. Regards, Amit Kapoor Honorary Chairman Institute for Competitiveness, India Keynote by Professor Michael E. Porter Professor Porter congratulated everyone on participating in the incredible process. He shared his passion for competitiveness and its practice. Very significantly, he asserted the hitherto thought agendas of economic strategy & social progress as separate pursuits actually needed an integrated approach. This he further said was not a balancing exercise between two conflicting either or agendas but a blend was mandated. Apart from sharing the macro and micro elements of his competitiveness framework, he exhorted Indian corporate to carry a deeper sole search as to how it would impact the society and economy. It was interesting to hear him say philanthropy was important but not very important because business serves society better by creating better products, sourcing raw material efficiently and generating useful infrastructure. He even said countries which are self-critical have better leverage their natural endowments. He underlined the role of successful clusters and emphasized that creating jobs with low wages was not adequate. Professor Michael Porter's Presentation Winners of Porter Prize 2014 Porter Prize for Creating Shared Value: Hindustan Unilever For their outstanding performance in the industry and to recognize their high impact as an organization that created economic success by redefining markets, products, way of doing business, creating collaborative efforts and in turn creating societal and economic progress. Porter Prize for Exploiting Trade Offs: Tech Mahindra For their outstanding performance in the industry and to recognize the choices that made their strategy sustainable as they were not easy to match or neutralize due to which they were able to create barriers pertaining to emulation. Porter Prize for Creating Distinctive Value: Dow India For their outstanding performance in the industry and ability to offer unique solutions to the customers. They effectively created new market spaces, segments and provided solutions that redefined the market. Porter Prize for Value Based Healthcare: Fortis Healthcare For their outstanding performance in the industry and to recognize them for redefining the idea of patient care and fundamentally challenging the economic models within the industry. Porter Prize for Enabling Social Progress: Essar Foundation For their outstanding contribution to the society to meet the basic human needs, established blocks that allow communities to sustain quality of life and creating conditions for individuals to reach their potential. Porter Prize for Excellence in Corporate Integration and Governance: Max India For their outstanding performance that is driven through excellence in corporate integration, exploiting synergies between different divisions, superior board room performance and governance mechanisms. Porter Prize for Leveraging Unique Activities: Mahindra Logistics  For their outstanding performance in the industry and to recognize their effective rendering of activities across the value chain that created competitive advantage. They clearly stated that good strategies depend on the connection among many things and on making interdependent choices. Porter Prize for Leveraging Unique Activities: Siemens  For their outstanding performance in the industry and to recognize their effective rendering of activities across the value chain that created competitive advantage. They clearly stated that good strategies depend on the connection among many things and on making interdependent choices. Porter Prize for Industry Architectural Shift: Indigo Airlines For their outstanding performance in the industry and to recognize them for redefining the industry structure by challenging the very basis of competition, creating new business models, challenging the status quo and exploiting change. Keynotes Delivered Shashi Ruia, Chairman, Essar Group in his keynote said, “I strongly believe that manufacturing is the backbone of a strong economy. To fulfill the dream of India being a manufacturing hub or a force we need skilled labour and additionally without a doubt the world tomorrow would be driven by confluence of economic and social objectives. Etienne Benet, CEO, Nestle India Limited emphasized on the role that Nestle plays in the industry and said, “Nestle is clearly driven by the idea of creating shared value.” Resonating the views of Professor Porter, Sanjiv Mehtasaid that the idea is to find the confluence between economic and social objectives. Business clearly can be a force of good. A responsible form of capitalism will depend on leaders we have. The leaders would have the responsibility to build a sustainable business model and we shall have to dramatically change the way we distribute wealth and use our resources. Video Thanking all Partners

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