Accord SDH, Technology Advancement for Quality Healthcare

Accord SDH Hospital has been awarded as the ‘Best Multispecialty Hospital in PCMC’. The hospital recently installed an Uro-Laser and a Neuro Microscope at the hospital. These state of the art equipments will help the hospital to upgrade its Tertiary Care offerings.

The Quanta 30/35 W, 2100 mm Holmium Uro-Laser is used for various Urological procedures especially fragmentation of hard and fiber small tightly fitted stones, bladder tumors. It can be used with flexible Urethroscopy for Kidney stones without PCNL and ECWL.

The Carl Zeiss Neuro microscope is extremely accurate and used to access the critical areas of Human brain especially in diseases of small vessels and nerves and prevents the brain from damage during surgery.

The new microscopes were inaugurated at  the hands of Chief guest Mr. Sanjay Lele- Chairman of Janata Sahakari Bank  &  Mr. Jagdish Kadam-Vice Chairman Janata Sahakari Bank and  Dr. Deepak Kirpekar- Urosurgeon, in the presence of Mr. Vidyadhar Sarfare- Chairman, ACCORD   SDH Hospital  And Dr. Deepali Chinchole- IVF expert and Managing Director of Director of ACCORD SDH Hospital.

Speaking on the occasion Mr. Lele said “I always wish that everyone should stay healthy, but at the same time today everyone encounters tremendous stress whether professional or personal, so having ACCORD SDH Hospital which offers patient centric care and courteous staff is a blessing for people of PCMC. 

Mr. Lele & Mr. Kadam felicitated Dr. Deepak Kirpekar the renowned urologist of international fame, for his outstanding contribution to the field of urology. Dr Kirpekar has over 3 decades of experience and has done more than twenty five thousand surgeries till date. Speaking on the occasion Dr Kirpekar appreciated the quality of services, courteous nature of the staff and medical facilities offered at ACCORD SDH Hospital. He said "over the Last two years the hospital has seen many positive changes and is developing into a tertiary care hub under the new management ".
               
Dr. Deepali Chinchole managing Director ACCORD SDH Hospital emphasized on   the quality aspects of healthcare. She also informed the gathering about the NABH accreditation process which was underway at the hospital and how patients will benefit from this certification. She said  that" Accord SDH Hospital strongly believes in providing high quality patient-focused health care that is readily accessible, cost effective and meets the needs of the people."

Netafim Launches the World's Most Innovative Digital Irrigation System in India

NetBeat™ is an irrigation and fertigation management system that integrates monitoring, analysis and automation into a single mobile platform, enabling farmers to maximize productivity any time, anywhere.

Following the launch of NetBeat™ insIsrael at Agritech 2018, NetBeat™ is launched in Pune, India. NetBeat™ is the world's first and most advanced digital irrigation and fertigation management system. The official launch of ‘NetBeat™ ’ in India has been done in the esteemed presence of Mr. Randhir Chauhan, Managing Director of Netafim India, Mr. Lior Doron, Director, Head of Digital Farming product management and Mr. Izhar Gilad, Head of Commercial & Business Development, Digital Farming, both from Netafim, Israel.  

Netafim, which led the world’s first revolution in precision agriculture more than 50 years ago with its pioneering drip irrigation, today brings a wealth of knowledge and experience in the field of agronomy and hydraulics to lead the digital farming revolution.

NetBeat™ provides farmers with real-time recommendations based on data pertaining to plant, soil and weather conditions obtained from both the field and external sources. This data is analyzed in the cloud, according to proprietary Dynamic Crop Models, based on 50 years of Netafim’s unique experience and research in the field of agronomy and hydraulics. NetBeat™ is the greatest innovation and the first irrigation system with a brain for Indian farmers, where they can easily monitor, analyze, get decision support and automate their irrigation operation by smartphone, wherever they are.

Based entirely on Israeli technology, NetBeat™ was developed in collaboration with mPrest, developers of the Command & Control platform used in the Iron Dome air-defense system. NetBeat™ is the first platform of its kind to integrate monitoring, analysis and automation in one system, controlled by the farmer through a friendly and simple user interface, that provides optimization and smart recommendations throughout all stages of the crop lifecycle, saving water, fertilizer and other inputs, and improving profitability.

As part of the Indian launch of NetBeat™, Netafim unveiled NetBeat™One, an innovative solution tailored for small farmers who need better control over their farms.

"Netafim is an innovative company that’s constantly looking for creative technology solutions that help the world grow more food with less resources. NetBeat™ offers a sustainable and innovative platform for both big and small farmers to ensure higher returns with minimum resources in agriculture,” says Randhir Chauhan, MD, Netafim India. "From companies cultivating large areas of land or community irrigation projects to an individual smallholder, NetBeat™ makes it easy to organize irrigation for the field and provides every stakeholder a way to maximize their results and peace of mind” he adds.

Mr. Lior Doron said, “NetBeat™ is the first irrigation management system with a brain. It combines a full solution of irrigation and fertigation control, monitoring and management together with smart Decision Support System crop models, interfaces to weather forecast and many other services and remote cloud access to the field from anywhere, anytime.”

“In light of today’s ever-increasing food and water security challenges, including dwindling precious resources and inefficient water usage, Netafim is proud to present NetBeat™ – the 1st irrigation system with a brain.” said Mr. Izhar Gilad

About Netafim

Netafim is the global leader in precision irrigation for a sustainable future. With 29 subsidiaries and 17 manufacturing plants worldwide, Netafim delivers innovative, tailor-made irrigation and fertigation solutions to millions of farmers, allowing smallholders to large-scale agricultural producers in over 110 countries to grow more with less. Founded in 1965, Netafim pioneered the drip revolution, creating a paradigm shift toward precision irrigation. Today, specializing in end-to-end solutions from the water source to the root zone, Netafim delivers turnkey irrigation and greenhouse projects, supported by engineering, project management and financing services. Netafim is also leading the way in digital farming, integrating real-time monitoring, analysis and automated control into one state-of-the-art system. Established in 1997, Netafim India, a wholly owned subsidiary of Netafim emerged as a leader in precision irrigation  solutions in the subcontinent. With 3 manufacturing plants in India, Netafim India brings sustainable prosperity to over 850,000 farming families.  See how Netafim’s solutions are changing the economics of agriculture and helping the world grow more with less at www.netafim.com.

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Indian developers contribute actively to open source projects: DigitalOcean Currents Report

Developers in India are more likely to contribute to open source than developers from other countries, with more than two-thirds (68 percent) actively participating.

23rd Nov, Bangalore India: DigitalOcean, the cloud services platform designed for developers brings out key developer cloud trends through its quarterly Currents report. In the fifth edition of Currents, they focused entirely on open source, to coincide with the movement’s 20-year anniversary. They asked more than 4,300 respondents around the world about the state of open source, including how they and their companies use it and what inspires them to support the community.

The following are some key findings from the report: 
• Twenty years in, just over half of developers surveyed are contributing to open source projects (55 percent). However, that is less than what companies expect from their employees: three out of four respondents said their companies expect them to use open source software as part of their day-to-day development work.

• Two of the most prominent barriers preventing developers from getting involved in open source are not knowing where to begin, and doubting they have the right skills. Companies not giving their employees time to contribute is also a large factor.

• Of the five major tech companies — Microsoft, Google, Amazon, Facebook and Apple — developers overwhelmingly said Google is most supportive of the open source community, followed by Microsoft. Apple ranked last.

• There’s a disconnect between companies’ encouragement of open source within their organizations, and their actual investment. Only 18 percent of respondents said their company is a member of an open source-related organization, and 75 percent said their company invests $1k or less every year in donations to open source.

• Newer developers actively contribute more to open source than veteran developers: While 55 percent of respondents said they actively contribute to open source projects, developers with five or fewer years of experience were significantly more likely to contribute (60 percent) than developers with six or more years of experience. This participation boost from newer developers aligns with the overall perception that the open source community is healthy and growing (89 percent).

Prabhakar Jayakumar, Country Director, DigitalOcean India says “This year marks both the 20th anniversary of the open source movement, as well as the 5th year of Hacktoberfest, our annual month-long celebration of open source. DigitalOcean Currents highlights the latest trends among developers in the cloud and our latest edition carries interesting insights on the potential of open source software”.

• Developers want an easier entry point into the open source community: 45% of developers listed “difficulty knowing how to get started” as the primary barrier preventing them from contributing to open source projects. Other key challenges included developers feeling they don’t have the right skills to contribute (44%) & companies not offering time for employees to contribute (30%).

• Companies expect developers to use open source technologies at work, but don’t invest as much in the broader community: Nearly three out of every four respondents said their companies expect them to use open source software as part of their day-to-day development work, but only 18 percent of employees said their companies actively participated in open source organizations (e.g. Apache Foundation, Node.js Foundation, Cloud Native Computing Foundation). The cost of participating in these organizations is the biggest barrier (38 percent), and 75 percent of respondents said their companies also donated just $1k or less to these organizations in the last year.

• Javascript, Python and PHP are among the top 3 programming languages that developers primarily use when engaging with open source

• Companies evaluating open source technologies look primarily for ones that are widely used, and have great documentation and active maintainers. At the same time, poor documentation and security concerns are a few reasons why companies opt against open source.

About DigitalOcean:
Founded in 2012, DigitalOcean provides the easiest cloud platform to deploy, manage, and scale applications of any size, removing infrastructure friction and providing predictability so developers and their teams can spend more time building software that customers love. DigitalOcean has a $200 million run rate and a community of 3.5 million developers with 12 data centres across the globe. In addition to its headquarters in New York, DigitalOcean has an office in Cambridge, Mass. and remote employees around the world. For more information, simply visit http://www.digitalocean.com or follow @digitalocean on Twitter.

IBS Mumbai announces its Management Education Scope in India: Continues Successful Placements for Batch of 2019

Mumbai- November 29, 2018: ICFAI Business School, Mumbai has emerged as a top preference of those aspiring for a programme in Management and is rated among the best B-Schools in India, IBS Mumbai.

Distinguished for its perfect mix of knowledge and skills, IBS Mumbai prepares students for corporate careers. It provides state-of-the-art infrastructure at its expansive and beautiful campus of over one lakh square feet in the elite neighbourhood of Hiranandani Gardens Powai, Mumbai.

Over 50% of the group’s international placements happen at IBS Mumbai.  The IBS Mumbai Career Management Centre has a strong industry network and leads other B-Schools in placing its students in Insurance, BFSI, IT & ITES, Media and Entertainment, Digital Marketing, and other sectors.

Aiming at developing future leadership and global excellence, IBS Mumbai encourages students to share experiences, solve problems, take decisions, work in teams, take up live projects and organise events, develop entrepreneurial orientation and act as practicing managers while they study.

The two-year Post Graduate Programme in Management (PGPM) has the best curriculum, course content and pedagogy.    Matching the learning needs and styles of the New-Age Student, IBS Mumbai provides student-friendly and futuristic learning platforms.

IBS Mumbai’s competent Faculty engage students in participative learning by blending technology in teaching. This enables the students to become specialists across functional areas and adapt to dynamic work environments.

“Students at IBS Mumbai learn to take critical decisions based on business considerations and ethical implications. This deepens the understanding of the key functional areas and strategic dimensions of management” says Prof. Y.K Bhushan Senior Advisor and Campus Head, IBS Mumbai.

“The placement team which brings new job profiles every year at IBS Mumbai is complemented by strong Academic Coordination, by offering electives such as Analytics, Insurance and Digital Marketing to prepare them for promising careers in these areas”, added Dr Pritee Saxena, Dy.Campus Head and Director, Placements, IBS Mumbai

The unique Summer Internship Programme gives the students a taste of corporate working life and exposes them to the rigor of a professional environment.  Students also work on live projects for corporates, which exposes them to various corporate practices well before they start their careers.

“Two Global Immersions Teams separately visited Germany, Belgium, Austria, Switzerland, France and Netherlands to understand world class business operations by visiting organisations like Airbus, Audi, BMW and also networked by International B-Schools such as Essec Business School in Paris.  Visits to the Eiffel Tower and the Rhine Waterfall in Zurich helped them appreciate the beauty of the world through European heritage and culture” said Prof Hemant Purandare, Dean, Academics, IBS Mumbai

‘The Centre for Language Development”, a new learning facility at IBS Mumbai gives every student an opportunity to be proficient in English and strengthen their verbal ability.

IBS Mumbai is a leader in designing innovative Management Development Programmes for the industry some of which were –‘‘HR Analytics’ and ‘Labour Law Reforms’, said Dr Rita Rangnekar, Dean, Institution Building, IBS Mumbai

In April 2018,   IBS Mumbai hosted three International Conferences, 1st International HR Conference –

• HR In Search of an Identity- Changing Business Models: Inroads made by Technology;
• 2nd International Conference on Finance and Economics Issues and Implications in Corporate Consolidation
• 3rd International Conference on Marketing – Refocusing Marketing- Issues, Trends and Challenges. International Speakers and Delegates.

IBS Mumbai has 23 student clubs which enable students to harness their leadership potential through fests, seminars and competitions. The IBS Mumbai Student Council  has organised a 5K Run with the theme- ‘Swasth Bharat’ at  Hiranandani,  Powai, in which corporates, students, residents and IBS alumni will run for the cause of health and well-being. Konflux the Annual Fest, continues to be a landmark event among B-School Fests.  ‘Kautilya’, the student driven Finance Club, functions like a mini-organisation with three verticals and its own mock-stock.

The IBS Mumbai Library:  “Sumantra Ghoshal Learning Centre”, with over 35519 books, journals, databases, films, digital resources and a plush reading lounge, providing an excellent environment for intellectual development.

The IBS Mumbai Campus is abuzz with Principals’ Meets and Faculty Development Programmes as well as health camps and social service drives. The IBS Mumbai Alumni meet regularly at Knowledge Sharing Programmes and Meets.    To continue its success story, IBS Mumbai now enthusiastically looks forward to bringing in the Batch of 2021.

Top 12 Finalists from Edify Chess Tournament to play with Grandmaster Viswanathan Anand

This unique tournament final will be held on 8th December 2018

Seven finalists have been selected from a unique chess tournament organised by Edify International School in association with Pune District Chess Association and the additional 5 will be selected from The Government Schools. All these 12 finalists will play with Grandmaster Viswanathan Anand on 8th December 2018 at Edify International School, Hinjawadi, Pune. 

This was the unique chess tournament for school student aged between 5 and 16 years. The preliminary rounds were held on November 17- 18, 2018, which witnessed around 486 participants from Pune. The top seven finalists selected for the finale are; Advait Patil, Kashish Jain, Shivraj Pingle, Jail Digambar, Nirgun Keval, Prem Mhetre, and Sahil Dhobale. Additional five will be selecting from the Government Schools. The top finalists will now get an opportunity to play against Grandmaster Viswanathan Anand in a 1: 12 match at EISP campus.

Ms. Priya Anand, Head of School said, “This will be the most unique opportunity for students of Pune as it gives them an experience to play with the Grandmaster Viswanathan Anand. Huge thanks to everyone who participated in this event. It was an exhilarating experience to compete with fellow competitors. Kudos to all the participants and we look forward to meeting all of them on the final event on Saturday, December 8th, 2018.”

The final event and the prize distribution ceremony will be held on the same day between 11.00 am – 1.00 pm. We at Edify International School Pune believe that a sport is the greatest teacher in developing the values of camaraderie, humility and teamwork.

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