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Wednesday, 25 April 2012
Envoys of twelve Nations present credentials to President of India
Twelve
envoys presented their credentials to the President of India, Smt.
Pratibha Devisingh Patil at a ceremony at Rashtrapati Bhavan.
The envoys who presented their credentials were: - His Excellency Mr. Ioannis E. Raptakis, the Ambassador of Greece, His Excellency Mr. Larbi Reffouh, the Ambassador of Morocco, His Excellency Mr. Ali Illiassou, the Ambassador of Niger, Her Excellency Mrs. Aashna Wandani Radha Kanhai, the Ambassador of Suriname, His Excellency Mr. Waven Winslow William, the High Commissioner of Seychelles, Her Excellency Ms. Susan Yoyo Sikaneta, the High Commissioner of Zambia, His Excellency Mr. Feilim McLaughlin, the Ambassador of Ireland, His Excellency Mr. Sanjaasuren Bayaraa, the Ambassador of Mongolia, His Excellency Mr. Linus von Castelmur, the Ambassador of Switzerland, Her Excellency Mrs. Maria Michael, the High Commissioner of Cyprus, His Excellency Mr. Alexandre Cece Loua, the Ambassador of Guinea and Her Excellency Ms. Nancy J. Powell, the Ambassador of the United States of America.
Welcoming the envoys the President said the global financial crises and developments in the Euro Zone along with political strife and violence have generated a plethora of political and economic issues. Improved financial governance, employment generation, promoting trade and investments are essential she felt. The President also said that the world is faced with the growing pressures on the Earth’s resources and issues related to environment protection and climate change. In such a scenario, it is very important to work together and have institutions in which the voices of all, particularly those of developing countries find expression, she added. The President also said that India is willing to share her development experiences and her expertise with other countries in particular in the context of South-South Co-operation.
The credential presentation ceremony was attended by the senior members of the Missions, senior officials of the Ministry of External Affairs and Rashtrapati Bhavan.
The envoys who presented their credentials were: - His Excellency Mr. Ioannis E. Raptakis, the Ambassador of Greece, His Excellency Mr. Larbi Reffouh, the Ambassador of Morocco, His Excellency Mr. Ali Illiassou, the Ambassador of Niger, Her Excellency Mrs. Aashna Wandani Radha Kanhai, the Ambassador of Suriname, His Excellency Mr. Waven Winslow William, the High Commissioner of Seychelles, Her Excellency Ms. Susan Yoyo Sikaneta, the High Commissioner of Zambia, His Excellency Mr. Feilim McLaughlin, the Ambassador of Ireland, His Excellency Mr. Sanjaasuren Bayaraa, the Ambassador of Mongolia, His Excellency Mr. Linus von Castelmur, the Ambassador of Switzerland, Her Excellency Mrs. Maria Michael, the High Commissioner of Cyprus, His Excellency Mr. Alexandre Cece Loua, the Ambassador of Guinea and Her Excellency Ms. Nancy J. Powell, the Ambassador of the United States of America.
Welcoming the envoys the President said the global financial crises and developments in the Euro Zone along with political strife and violence have generated a plethora of political and economic issues. Improved financial governance, employment generation, promoting trade and investments are essential she felt. The President also said that the world is faced with the growing pressures on the Earth’s resources and issues related to environment protection and climate change. In such a scenario, it is very important to work together and have institutions in which the voices of all, particularly those of developing countries find expression, she added. The President also said that India is willing to share her development experiences and her expertise with other countries in particular in the context of South-South Co-operation.
The credential presentation ceremony was attended by the senior members of the Missions, senior officials of the Ministry of External Affairs and Rashtrapati Bhavan.
Adobe Launches Creative Suite 6 in India;
Adobe Launches Creative Suite
6 in India; Transforms the Creative Process
Adobe CS6
Products Drive Continued Innovation Across Indian Creative Markets
New Delhi, India — April 24, 2012
— Adobe Systems
Incorporated (Nasdaq:ADBE) today announced the ultimate toolkit for design, web
and video professionals with the unveiling of Adobe® Creative Suite® 6 product
line in India. Powerful new releases of 14
CS6 applications and four Creative Suites – Adobe Creative Suite 6 Design &
Web Premium, Adobe Creative Suite 6 Design Standard, Adobe Creative Suite 6
Production Premium; and Adobe Creative Suite 6 Master Collection – drive home
Adobe’s continued innovation across creative markets.
“Designers
get a ton of innovation with CS6 with milestone release across all our flagship
products,” said David Wadhwani, Senior Vice
President, Digital Media at Adobe. “With CS6 we’re also introducing new
products, new mobile workflows and advanced publishing capabilities that show
we are laser-focused on ensuring design, web and video pros have everything
they need for the delivery of high-impact content and apps.”
The release
is particularly significant for the large Indian creative community, which is riding
a wave of digital content, media and connectivity proliferation in the country.
India’s Media and Entertainment industry is expected to register a CAGR of 15
percent to reach INR 1,457 billion by 2016, according to a recent FICCI-KPMG
Report. The imminent arrival of nationwide 4G network connectivity along with
affordable tablet devices are expected to generate significant tailwinds
fueling growth in digital content creation and consumption.
“Adobe CS6
release has come just ahead of what is likely to be a period of unprecedented
new opportunities for the Indian creative industry. This release includes what
the creative professionals will need to bring their vision to life and manage
how and where it is delivered to the end audience – whether on smartphones,
tablets, the desktop or through traditional media,” said Umang Bedi, Managing Director – South Asia, Adobe Systems. “Adobe
is a leading provider of HTML tools, enabling designers to work efficiently and
effectively, creating across devices and platforms such as iOS, Android,
Windows Mobile or Symbian.”
Expressing
his views on the launch of Creative Suite 6 in India, Naresh Malik, Global COO – Media & Creative Services, Reliance
MediaWorks said, “The prospect of being able to produce an outstanding
piece of creative work at a much faster pace, for myriad content consumption
devices and platforms, and share it with the world at the click of a button, is
transforming the creative process across industries. At Reliance MediaWorks, we
are leading this transformation to deliver cutting-edge film post production,
global imaging, creative as well as production services and have partnered
closely with Adobe, leveraging their Creative Suite portfolio. We find
ourselves at a very exciting time in the history of entertainment and
creativity, and are equally excited about the possibilities Adobe’s Creative
Suite 6 holds for taking the creative process into a new realm altogether.”
"Adobe
has a winner on its hands yet again. The upgrades and the new features in
Creative Suite 6 are not only innovative but immensely compelling, especially
to a diversified media group like ours. Our teams cannot wait to leverage the
entire range of exceptional features that this suite of products has to offer,”
said Kushal Ruia, Creative Head, ACK
Animation Studio.
Major
CS Upgrades and All-New Muse Anchor
Landmark Launch for Designers
The performance and workflow
enhancements in Adobe Photoshop CS6 (see separate press release), InDesign CS6
and Illustrator CS6 will result in significant time savings for print, web and
mobile projects.
·
In Photoshop CS6, designers will
experience incredible performance, powered by the Adobe Mercury Graphics
Engine, enabling near instant results from essential editing tools, including
Liquify, Puppet Warp, Transform and Lighting Effects.
·
Adobe has built on Photoshop’s
breakthrough Content-Aware capabilities with advanced new Content-Aware Patch
and Content-Aware Move features.
·
Illustrator
CS6 debuts a revamped modern interface and features include a new Image Tracing
Engine, Pattern Creation and Gradient Strokes.
The Mercury performance system delivers speed and stability, including
64-bit support for Mac OS and Windows.
·
InDesign
CS6 continues to blaze a trail in publishing, streamlining the creation of
multiple layouts from a single set of content with new Adaptive Design Tools –
Alternate Layout, Liquid Layout, Content Collector Tools and Linked
Content.
·
A brand new application, Adobe
Muse, a radical new tool that enables designers
to create and publish HTML5 web sites without writing code, was also announced
today.
Adobe Doubles-Down on HTML5
Tooling for Web Professionals
Innovative new workflows and capabilities
across Adobe tools simplify the creative process for today’s web designers,
developers and interactive professionals.
·
Web pros can conveniently
integrate HTML5 animations, created with Adobe Edge Preview, into their
Dreamweaver projects, driving home Adobe’s leadership in tooling for the HTML5
web standard.
·
Dreamweaver
CS6 addresses the challenge of responsive web designs with the ability to build
fluid grid layouts replacing the tedious manual process of creating and
configuring separate CSS-based interfaces for phone, tablet and desktop.
·
Through
direct integration with Adobe’s recently announced PhoneGap Build service,
Dreamweaver CS6 helps round out a Web professional’s skillset and enables them
to produce native mobile applications for multiple platforms.
·
Flash
Professional CS6 users can easily translate and transition their skills to
HTML5 using the Flash Professional Toolkit for CreateJS. Flash Professional CS6 also helps designers
to create exciting and impactful gaming experiences and advancements include
the ability to generate sprite sheets that improve workflows and performance.
·
Pre-built
native extensions and new packaging options, leveraging the latest Adobe Flash
Player and AIR runtimes, help expand and ease app delivery to Android and iOS
devices.
Production Premium CS6 Pushes
Boundaries of Video Creativity
Redesigned by and for video
editors, with major performance enhancements, the tools included in Adobe
Creative Suite 6 Production Premium set a new standard in professional video.
·
With dozens of new features Adobe Premiere Pro
CS6 is the hub of any professional video workflow, featuring a sleek new
editing environment. The powerful Adobe
Mercury Playback Engine now supports OpenCL
on MacBook Pros.
·
The most significant After Effects release in a
decade, After Effects CS6 is faster and more responsive than ever. With Global
Performance Cache, previews are saved and ready to go— cutting the time spent
bouncing between projects.
·
New to Production Premium are Adobe® Prelude™
CS6, which streamlines logging and ingest workflows in post-production, and
Adobe SpeedGrade, which contains powerful finishing tools for film finishing
and color grading.
·
Adobe
Audition CS6 accelerates audio post-production: real-time clip stretching makes
it simple to stretch clips to fit an edit; and Automatic Speech Alignment
introduces a powerful new engine for automated dialogue analysis.
·
A new 3rd party API for hardware integration –
Adobe Mercury Transmit – allows broadcast video monitoring to connect directly
into the Mercury Playback Engine via third-party cards from AJA, Blackmagic
Design, and Matrox.
“The urge to be
creative is ubiquitous, and harnessing the creative spark, in everybody from
school children to creative pros, has never been more important,“ said Shantanu
Narayen, CEO at Adobe. “Everyone has the potential to create, and wherever,
whenever inspiration strikes, Adobe will be there to help capture, refine and
publish your ideas.”
Pricing
and Availability
Adobe Creative Suite 6 products are
scheduled to be available within 30 days. They will be available through Adobe
Authorised Resellers and the Adobe Online Store at http://shop.adobe.com/in.
The estimated street prices (ESP) for the Creative Suite products are expected
to be INR 1,56,577 for CS6 Master
Collection, INR 1,14,421 for CS6
Design and Web Premium, INR
1,14,421 for CS6 Production Premium and INR
78,288 for CS6 Design Standard. Upgrade pricing and volume licensing are
available. Taxes as applicable.
Education pricing for students,
faculty and staff in K-12 and higher education is available from Adobe
Authorized Education Resellers. For more information regarding education volume
licensing for higher education and K-12 institutions please visit: http://www.adobe.com/in/education.html
For more detailed
information about features, OS support, upgrade policies, pricing and
international versions please visit:
For
updates and news about Adobe India, find us on Facebook: www.facebook.com/adobeindia and follow us on Twitter: @AdobeIndia
About Adobe Systems Incorporated
Adobe is changing the world through digital
experiences. For more informationTuesday, 24 April 2012
Dear Friends & Fellow Professionals,
Attrition, in many ways, is a taboo word that many corporate shy away from. But it is always open to debate whether some attrition is in fact good for the organization. There have been numerous articles written and studies done on this engaging topic. Organizations deploy quite a few strategies to retain talent but there are always reasons out there which compel the talent to look out. Research shows that mostly it is the Boss who is the main cause of attrition but at times there are reasons, which we may think is trivial, but which turns out to be a make or break decision for the employee.
- Why good talent leave organizations?
- How to Arrest Attrition?
- How to Retain Talent?
In addition to the panel discussion we will be sharing findings from a Mini Survey on Attrition Management. So look forward to that!
If that was not all, we will have a Theatrical presentation on the theme by a young Creative Entertainment Enterprise.
Please join us for an exciting evening!
Program Details
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| Date: | April 25th, 2012 (Wednesday) | ||
| Time: | 5:30PM - 8:00PM
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| Venue: | PHD Chamber of Commerce and Industry, PHD House, 4/2 Siri Institutional Area, August Kranti Marg, New Delhi - 110016 | ||
Best Regards,
| Suresh Tripathi | Rajneesh Bawa | Rajneesh Singh | Anil Gaur | Ajay Chowdhury |
| President | Vice President | Vice President | Hon. Secretary | Joint Secretary |
National HRD Network - Delhi & NCR Chapter, C-81C, DLF Super Mart-1, DLF City-IV, Gurgaon.
Tel.: 0124-4041560, Mobile: 9810526884, Email: info@hrdnetworkdelhi.com
NOTE:
• NHRDN Members - Free of Cost.
• Non-Members would be requested to pay Rs.500/- to partly defray the expenses or to take up membership of "National HRD Network - Delhi & NCR Chapter"
“International Conference
on Strategies to Promote Sustainable Consumption” organised by CERC &
German Society for International Cooperation(GIZ) draws attention from all
stakeholders
New Delhi, 23rd April 2012: CERC (Consumer Education and Research Center) in
cooperation with GIZ (Deutsche
Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit) today began a two day conference on “Strategies to Promote Sustainable
Consumption”, here in New Delhi. The Conference has drawn considerable
attention from all stakeholders and partners.
Inauguration
was attended by Mr. Manoj Parida, Jt. Secretary, Ministry of Consumer Affairs;
Mr. Surjit Singh, Jt. Secretary, Ministry of Environment & Forests; Dr.
Antje Gölner-Scholz, First Secretary, Economic Cooperation & Development,
German Embassy; Mrs. Swarn Kohli, Trustee, Consumer Education & Research
Centre (CERC); & Mr. Patrick von Braunmühl, Senior Advisor, Deutsche
Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) and considered various
options available to help in Sustainable Consumption.
“Sustainable
Shopping Basket”-a guide on sustainable consumption was also launched at the
Conference, designed on the highly successful Blue Angel guide, a national
climate initiative launched by the German Govt. While unveiling the guide Mr
Manoj Parida said “Time has arrived to control ruthless consumption. There
should be a fixation of responsibilities for Consumers which was not mentioned
in the Consumer Protection Act. We should be more moderate and responsible in
our consumption to ensure a better environment for the next generation.”
Ms
Susanne Heutlin, Umweltbundesamt, explained
that 4 different institutions are responsible for awarding a Blue Angel mark
including Environmental Label Jury, Federal
Ministry for Environment Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety, Federal
Environment Agency and RALg GmbH. Already 120 product groups from 1260 companies
encompassing 13,000 products and services has already started using this Blue
Angel logo and studies have shown a huge positive response to the same. It also
has an Iceberg effect as well with 80% of the response due to emotional,
subconscious and Feelings for a better environment and tomorrow.
The topics lined up for discussion at the two-day
conference include sessions on Eco-Labelling, Life Cycle Assessment, Green
Public Procurement & Consumer
Awareness and Comparative Testing &
Role of Business for Sustainable Consumption.
Consumption of resources
in ethical manner is becoming important for consumers as well as corporates
across the world. Therefore a responsible behavior is required from all
stakeholders to protect the environment.
In India, consumer spending has risen significantly in the past few
years. Reports indicate that India is one of the fastest growing consumer
markets and consumer confidence in Indian markets is the highest among the
world markets. This growing market has been fuelled by multiple factors such as
rapid growth in Gross Domestic Product, growth conducive change in demographics
– higher number of people under 30 years of age and rising middle class,
changing consumption habits of people, increasing urbanization as well as
higher purchasing power in urban and rural areas, due to planned expenditure in
developmental activities.
This is, however, yet to
translate into a substantial market for green goods, which even now remains at
a significantly low level. There are multiple challenges in the path of
sustainable consumption major ones being economic, socio-cultural and
political.
Governments, civil society organisations as well as businesses
can make major contributions towards the promotion of sustainable consumption
by raising the consumers’ awareness and providing useful information to
influence their consumption behaviour. Eco-labelling, Life Cycle Assessment,
awareness campaigns, comparative testing and responsible advertising are
effective instruments to foster sustainable consumption patterns. Also
governments and
businesses themselves can take conscious decisions to purchase
sustainable products and act as role models for consumers via the establishment
of sustainable public procurement as well as green supply chains and Corporate
Social Responsibility.
Sharing the motive
behind organizing this conference, Ms. Swarn Kohli, Trustee, Consumer Education
& Research Centre, said, “The conference aims to identify needs
/methods/approaches to revamp the Indian Ecomark scheme; share the ongoing
activities on the development of instruments for the promotion of sustainable
consumption such as comparative testing, awareness campaigns, Life Cycle
Assessment and green public procurement; clarify all stakeholders on the role
of businesses and the importance of Corporate Social Responsibility for the promotion of
sustainable consumption and identify a strategy for sustainable consumption
that improves the efficiency of the mentioned instruments and determines joint
efforts of all stakeholders.
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