SPIRIT OF MUMBAI

Legrand India to support initiatives across India to aid the country’s fight against COVID-19 Legrand India to provide over 2000 beds for hospitals & healthcare facilities and  2.6 lakh PPE kits to electricians, journalists (Chennai Press club), NGO health workers, drivers community & police officials Mumbai, May 14, 2020 :  Legrand India, a global specialist in electrical and digital building infrastructure has initiated supporting the local Govt. in the creation of quarantine centres and isolation wards in Kolkata, Odisha and Chattisgarh.  They are working with various government stakeholders across the nation with electrical products to be used for creating isolation wards and quarantine centres. One of the key focus areas of Legrand India is healthcare when it comes to giving back to the society. Legrand is also supporting govt. hospitals & quarantine centres with disposable isolation beds as a proactive step to facilitate to accommodate...

Beijing, China —The Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) is doubling available funds under its COVID-19 Crisis Recovery Facility to provide USD5-10 billion due to high client demand. This follows   AIIB’s announcement to make USD5 billion available  to help public and private sector clients manage through the COVID-19 pandemic. Requests for funding have substantially exceeded the USD5 billion originally allocated for emergency relief. Based on client feedback, immediate assistance is required in three key areas: (1) to help alleviate health care pressures in the form of health infrastructure and pandemic preparedness; (2) liquidity support through on-lending facilities and credit lines via financial institutions to address working capital and liquidity shortages and (3) immediate fiscal and budgetary support, in partnership with other multilateral development banks, so governments can focus on addressing the human and financial impacts of COVID-19. “We are fac...

India is not only agricultural country but also the  country known for many scripts-  Achyut Palav Noted cartoonist and Maharashtra Navnirman Sena President Raj Thackeray inaugurated the exhibition of depicting four-decade-old calligraphic journey of Achyut Palav, credited with making calligraphy known in India and abroad, and also released his book  “ ‘Letterospective” in English at Jehangir Art Gallery, Kalaghoda at Fort in South Mumbai. Besides Thackeray and Palav, Anil Gala of Navneet Publications was present. The exhibition begins with calligraphic painting showing Suvichar”(good thoughts) and it ends with calligraphic painting of zero. The boards, banners, hoardings, nameplates, paper, canvass, walls of interior can be seen in this exhibition. Besides the documents, coins and tools received while studying Modi” language  (an ancient variation of the Devanagari) are on  display in the exhibition.India is not only agricultural country b...

Ecovis is a leading global consulting firm with its origins in Continental Europe, head quartered at Berlin. It’s consulting focus and core competencies lie in the areas of tax consultation, accounting, corporate finance auditing and legal advice. Ecovis India started its journey in the year 2007, in 2011 they invited partners across the 60 countries and were the first one amongst global top 20 Consulting network with the clear focus to expand its foot print xin India beyond mega cities, leveraging its strength of combining personal advice at a local level to provide services to Indian mid-sized corporates and, focus on investments coming from Japan and Germany to India. Ecovis India has its presence in 12 cities and is working with over 100 associates and 15 top advisors from Legal and Financial domain. Ecovis has established itself as an execution-enabling consultancy firm. Ecovis India had its 6th India Partners meet on 8th January 2020; the meet was attended by Mr. Kay Friedr...

THE SCHINDLER GLOBAL AWARD 2019 : A SUCCESSFUL STEP AHEAD TO LEAPFROG DEVELOPMENT URBAN TRANSFORMATION IN MUMBAI, INDIA One of the most prominent student urban design competitions, the prestigious ‘The Schindler Global Award 2019’ was held this month in the megacity of Mumbai under the leadership of the Schindler Group, in collaboration with the ETH Zurich, Chair of Architecture and Urban Design, Professor Kees Christiaanse. Prof. Christiaanse is SGA Co-Chair together with Prof. Peter Staub, of the University of Liechtenstein. The SGA 2019 was also supported by the expertise of the Mumbai-based Urban Design Research Institute (UDRI). A huge success, ‘Schindler Global Award 2019’ was attended by the nominated team representatives, students from leading Design and Architect Schools and Colleges in Mumbai and leading names and members from the Indian and International Industry fraternity. Adding an interesting facet to the awards evening was an engaging Live Sand Art Performance...

Is back pain the biggest obstacle for India’s small-town sportswomen   Year after year, India’s most promising athletes back out of important sporting events citing back pain. There is now new data intelligence available that slots back pain into 100 different types; and offers a customised treatment plan. Will this change things for Indian sports? Indian sport is replete with stories of its female warriors who win laurels for the country. Unfortunately,  due to lack of facilities and trainers, more often than not, they train under adverse conditions and suffer from injuries during crucial stages of their sporting pursuit. Case in point being World championship and Commonwealth Games gold medallist weightlifter  Saikhom Mirabai Chanu  who had to pull out of the 2018 Asian Games due to a back injury. In February, she made a comeback after a nine-month injury-layoff and  won the gold in the 49-kilogram category at the EGAT Cup in Thailand, a qu...

Our  Hair  are our glorious Ambassadors. Our Hair : the Color , the Texture , the Cut , the Length of our hair can elevate or deprecate our image instantly. The first impression counts and how!. The first and foremost feature that we notice about others is HAIR. We, human beings are judged by our looks, where the Hair plays very crucial role. Don't believe me ?. Let's check out ourselves.  Try to recollect a scene from your childhood ... think about your KG friends and teacher. Just visualize your KG class ... yes ? I am sure the first thing you remember about them are their hair ( color , cut , style , length of hair ) and then everything else.   Ok , fine. Now that we are tuned with each other about HAIR. Let's plan about making our hair our crowning glory. We ardently wish our hair to look natural, healthy , shiny , stunning , brilliant , silky , voluminous ... straight  out of those glossy fashion magazines. Why not ? Have a dazzling hair with   G...

Being in the news, is common for Celebrities  and being in the Positive news is the forte of  Cafe Cubano,  Kemps Corner, August Kranti Marg, near Gowalia Tank, Mumbai.   The lobby of Cafe Cubano  is filled with Positive vibes due to the freshly minted Newsprint copies, ' I'm hungry ' and ' I need a drink '.  What's that ?. You may wonder. Come, Join me. Let's do a sting operation on ' Cafe Cubano ' and Master Chef  Rakesh Talwar . Chef Rakesh Talwar flaunts Devilish Chef tattoo, wielding a pan, wearing  a chef's crown. Chef  Rakesh Talwar  prefers Good, Happy news only. Instead of cribbing about the problem, he stopped reading daily newspapers and watching TV. That's not all, he started his own newspaper. Is not that  Incredible   in   India ?. So the Good News is  Cafe Cubano.  Here   you get your fill of  Happy News , right at the lobby-level. As you can see in the photo th...