Author: Pratheesh Sekhar, PRO

SIDCO has also achieved its highest turnover of Rs 226 crore in seven years. Thiruvananthapuram: Kerala SIDCO, a public sector corporation functioning under the state government, has posted record operating profit figures for the financial year 2022-23. The feat comes as significant as the public sector corporation has registered an operating profit of Rs. 48 lakh, for the first time in the past 15 years. SIDCO has also successfully achieved a seven-year high in terms of turnover, at Rs 226 crore. According to Sri. Santhosh Koshy Thomas, Managing Director of KINFRA,…

Toronto: Global Indian Council Inc., the fast-growing non-profit Network Organization of the Indian Diaspora, announced its new GIC Canada National Chapter (GIC-CAN-CA)in Canada on Sunday, March 26, 2023. Global Indian Council is incorporated in the State of Texas as a nonprofit, nonreligious, and nonpolitical organization giving equal opportunity to people who want to give back to the community to connect, support, promote, and empower youth, students, and professionals worldwide in ventures that would benefit the society at large. GIC has sixteen different Centers of Excellence to impart the passion of…

(Hackensack, NJ; March 27, 2023) — The Northern New Jersey Community Foundation (NNJCF) in partnership with Greater Bergen Community Action (GBCA) and the City of Hackensack received a matching grant of $75,000 from Partners for Places, a project of The Funders Network.  The grant supports the development of the project, Green Infrastructure for Environmental Justice and Flood Mitigation, to be implemented in the City of Hackensack.  The project was one of only eight grants totaling nearly $1.3 million awarded nationwide in The Funders’ Network Partners for Places program. The Foundation’s…

(Eastern Bergen County, New Jersey; March 26, 2023) — The Community Chest of Eastern Bergen County has been awarded a grant of $27,700 from Veolia to support the new SAT preparation program, Bound for Success.  The program, a partnership with The Community Chest, Dwight Morrow High School and Bergen Family Center’s in-school program, The Zone, prepares high school juniors from low-income families attending Dwight Morrow High School and the Academies at Englewood to take the SAT in June. “We thank Veolia for their continued support of The Community Chest of…

NEW YORK: Ratan Naval Tata, prominent engineer, entrepreneur, industrialist, and philanthropist of India, has been awarded the 2022 Hoover Medal by a board representing five engineering organizations: the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME); the American Society of Civil Engineers; the American Institute of Mining, Metallurgical and Petroleum Engineers; the American Institute of Chemical Engineers; and the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers. Established in 1929, the medal commemorates the civic and humanitarian achievement of engineers and is conferred upon an engineer whose professional achievements and personal endeavors have advanced…

Thiruvananthapuram: BIZAP EDU Foundation, a non-profit foundation registered under the Ministry of Corporate Affairs and an IAF and ISO certified institution, has invited applications from financially backward students for free studies in Travel and Tourism Diploma Course. The selected students will receive the opportunity to study without paying tuition fees, and all students will be provided with training, stipend, and post-employment during the course period. The Travel and Tourism Diploma Course is open to all individuals who have passed Plus Two, irrespective of age. In addition, the students who do…

Thiruvananthapuram: UST, a leading digital transformation solutions company, celebrated Women’s Day on March 8 with a series of programmes at its Thiruvananthapuram campus. The event focused on the United Nations’ Women’s Day theme of the theme “DigitALL: Innovation and technology for gender equality” #Transforming Lives – Across Generations – Powered by Technology. The celebrations on March 8 began with a dance and lamp lighting by the special guests Nagaraju Chakilam IPS, IGP and Commissioner of Police, Thiruvananthapuram City, and Dr. Pattathil Dhanya Menon – Cyber Crime investigator /Director, Avanzo Cyber…

Thiruvananthapuram: Azim Premji University, Bengaluru, has announced admissions to its new four-year Undergraduate programmes designed and structured in line with the National Education Policy (NEP) 2020. The programmes aim to prepare and nurture highly motivated, socially conscious, and reflective young citizens capable of self-learning. The programmes consist of four integrated elements — a rigorous disciplinary major, an interdisciplinary component combined with an intensive internship focused on occupational readiness, a set of foundational courses designed to develop capacities to engage effectively with the world, and a whole series of flexible credits…