One of the most prominent politicians of the City of Gates, Aurangabad is Ravi Agrawal. He is someone who believes that skills can make any person successful in this era. Ravi strongly believes that the world contains young people who have the power of bringing a change. Based in Jalna, he is also an entrepreneur who overtook his family business which was previously headed by his father Govardhan Agrawal. Ravi has highly contributed to social work and leadership skills for the betterment of other people.

Govardhan Agrawal who was a former corporate aided Ravi to attain ticket as the MLA and that’s when things took a drastic turn. But Ravi followed in the footsteps of his father. He decided to continue contributing to society and was also awarded the Indira Gandhi Priyadarshini award for his work.

Ravi’s brother and father ran a grocery store and also managed a company under the name of Ram Ritesh Rolling Mill. However, in the year 1995, the steel company faced a major crisis due to which they had to sell their business.

At 22, Ravi opened a coal and iron business. He put in almost 14 years of dedication and work and finally he was able to bring Ram Ritesh Rolling Mill back to his name making his father extremely proud of him.

Today, he is successfully running multiple businesses in Jalna including Hari Om Trading, Pannarukmini Food Junction and Rupam steel which further supplies to multiple parts in the south including Kerala, Hyderabad, Gulbarga amongst many other places.

Growing up in a politically impacted environment, Ravi shared, “I have seen a lot of struggle and have built an empire from scratch. My motive is to educate and empower poor and needy people in my locality and help them start their own businesses.”

Ravi Agrawal is someone who wants to use his financial power and success to bring positive change in the society and use it to uplift others. He is definitely someone who stood by his virtues.

People are bracing up for the festivities with prayers that the Goddess Durga would slay the evil and lift the gloom around. Beautiful pandals decked with diverse designs and themes have come up in all corners of West Bengal and Bihar, besides other states.

Bengalis, known for the Durga Pujo festivities and accompanying feasts are preparing pandals in Kolkata in grand traditions even while the mood appears somewhat dampened due to the Covid pandemic.

The much-awaited and auspicious festival of Durga Puja is about to begin from October 22, 2020. The biggest festival of Bengalis across the globe coincides with 9-day long Navratri festivity which is dedicated to Maa Durga and her different avatars for each day of the Navratra.

Celebrations this year are low-key because of the novel coronavirus outbreak, which has affected people worldwide. Social distancing, wearing masks, gloves and proper sanitisation are the need of the hour to keep the virus at bay. State governments on their part have issued specific guidelines for Durga Puja, Navratri and Ram Lila festivals.

The five-day festival of Durga Puja usually begins six days after Mahalya, but this year it is different due to mala mass-lunar month having two moons. This year Mahalya, which is the beginning of the Devi Paksha and end of the Pitru Paksha, took place on September 17 and Durga Puja starts from October 22.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi will join the Durga Puja celebrations in Bengal as he inaugurates puja pandals in Kolkata via video conferencing today, while the BJP has made preparations to broadcast his greetings message at all the polling booths. The state goes to polls next year.

“Sisters and brothers of West Bengal, tomorrow, on the auspicious day of Maa Durga Pujo’s Maha Sashti, I would join the divine celebrations via video conferencing and shall also be extending my greetings to everyone,”. PM Narendra Modi tweeted on Wednesday.

While Swarup Prasad Ghosh kick-starts celebrations, Dona Ganguly will perform. Summit and Souren will join the event and thereafter Babul Supriyo will be presenting Rabindra Sangeet. PM’s speech will begin at noon.

The BJP Bengal unit in-charge Kailash Vijayvarghiye said, “Durga Puja is the essence of Bengal. People have instilled their faith in Prime Minister Narendra Modi and the party in Lok Sabha Elections. We are acknowledging the People’s mandate and what better occasion than seeking blessings of Maa Durga also.”

Gearing up to meet the festival rush, Railways has decided to run 392 festival special trains from Wednesday. The Ministry of Railways has approved the proposals of various zones, which had sought 196 pairs of festival special trains. The trains will operate till 30 November. The fare for these services will be the same as charged for the special trains. 

The Ministry of Railways in a statement has said that 196 pairs (392 trains) to clear the festival rush would be made operational from 20th October to 30th November 2020. “The fare for these Festival Special services shall be that applicable for special trains. Zonal Railways will notify their schedule well in advance,” the Ministry has announced.

The tickets for these special trains will be costlier by 10-30 percent as compared to the fares of mail/express trains, depending on the class of travel.

The special trains will run on major routes, covering Kolkata, Patna, Varanasi, Lucknow and others to cater the growing demand during the ensuing holiday period of Durga Puja, Dussehra, Diwali and Chhatt Puja.

In an order issued, the Railways Board said these festival special trains will be operated at a speed of 55kmph.

BrahMos is India’s cutting edge missile system, which achieved another milestone after it hit the target with perfection on Monday in a test executed off the coast of Odisha.

The Stand-off Anti-tank (SANT) missile took off in a perfect trajectory off the coast of Odisha on Monday to hit the pre-determined target, marking the successful completion of the test, sources said.

Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) is developing the BrahMos missile system for the Indian Air Force (IAF). It will have both ‘Lock-on after Launch and Lock-on Before Launch’ capability, the sources informed. Equipped with an advanced nose-mounted seeker, the missile can destroy targets 15km to 20km away.

“While the earlier version of the missile has a strike range of about eight km, the upgraded variant with infrared imaging seeker can cover at least double the distance. One more trial of the missile has been planned on Tuesday. A series of successful tests would pave the way for its induction and serial production,” a defence official said. 

The IAF has congratulated the DRDO on the successful test-firing of BrahMos supersonic cruise missile.

BrahMos supersonic cruise missile was successfully test-fired from the Indian Navy’s indigenously-built stealth destroyer INS Chennai, hitting a target in the Arabian Sea, the DRDO said in a statement.

This was the 11th missile test-fired by India within one and a half month. This test has come in the wake of twin successes of ‘Laser-Guided Anti Tank Guided Missile (ATGM)’ from KK ranges at Ahmednagar in Maharashtra on September 22 and October 1.

Korba, October 19, 2020: Bharat Aluminium Company (BALCO), a national leader in Aluminium production, was recently recognized as one of The Economic Times Best Brands 2020.

The prestigious recognition, synonymous with consumer trust and quality, reiterates BALCO’s value as a brand that of being innovative, trustworthy, unique, ethical, adaptable, and delivering the best quality products and services to its consumers and channel partners. The “Best Brands 2020” features successful brand stories and outlines the DNA of brands, their iconic core values, and their commitment to socio-economic development.

The conferring of this recognition is an esteemed representation of the strong positioning of BALCO’s reputation in the ever-challenging business environment that puts its products at par with global competitive brands. BALCO, one of India’s pioneering Aluminium producers is owned 49% by the Government of India and 51% by Vedanta Limited. The brand’s Korba (Chhattisgarh) plant operates a 0.57 million tonne per annum Aluminium smelter and is also a leader in value-added Aluminium products that find critical applications in core industries. With its world-class smelter and power plants, the company fulfills its mission of spurring emerging applications of Aluminium as the ‘Metal of the Future’ for a greener tomorrow.

Mr. Abhijit Pati, CEO & Director, BALCO, on receiving the accolade said, “We feel extremely honoured that BALCO has been conferred the prestigious “Best Brands 2020” recognition. This is a testimony to the collaborative effort of every single stakeholder associated with the brand. A frontrunner in transforming the socio-economic landscape of Korba, BALCO’s turnaround created a 360-degree multiplier effect resulting in the economic progress of the regional business community comprising over 5,000 local businesses. This has led to the rapid socio-economic development of the region.”

BALCO, one of India’s pioneering Aluminium producers, has always been a frontrunner in India’s Aluminium production at the global scale. It is also humbling that BALCO has been instrumental in bringing its areas of operations in rural Chhattisgarh, that were earlier quite impoverished, into the developmental and economic mainstream of the country.

As is the characteristic of any sustainable venture, the brand has undertaken several development projects under the themes of sustainable livelihood, women empowerment, healthcare, education, afforestation, water conservation, agriculture programs benefiting over 1,50,000 people in the region and beyond. BALCO is also credited with planting over 41 lakh trees in the surrounding regions, thus increasing the green cover substantially.

In the changing paradigm of social fabric due to the pandemic, BALCO is also helping communities sustain their lives and livelihoods, working in close coordination with the district and local administration. The turnaround of the company and the community that lives with it, that is now a case study for India.

Today, as BALCO upholds its ethos of zero harm, zero discharge, and zero waste, it continues its operations adhering to the highest standards of business excellence. Forward-looking and future ready.

The Global Hunger Index 2020 has ranked India at 94 among 107 countries in terms of hunger. India continues to be in the severe hunger category. The study revealed that around 14 percent of India’s population is undernourished. The disappointing ranking has come despite the National Food Security Act.

Last year, India’s GHI rank was 102 out of 117 countries. South Asia and Africa South of the Sahara have the worst hunger conditions among global regions, the GHI reported. 

The GHI is a tool designed to comprehensively measure and track hunger at the global, regional, and national levels. Data from the United Nations and other multilateral agencies are used for the calculation. The GHI score is calculated on four indicators – undernourishment, child wasting, the share of children under the age of five, who are wasted with low weight for their age, reflecting chronic undernutrition, and child mortality- the mortality rate of children under the age of five. 

India ranks lower than most of its South Asian neighbours – Pakistan(88), Nepal (73), Bangladesh (75), Sri Lanka (64), and Myanmar (78) and only Afghanistan fares worse, at the 99th place. 

Shweta Khandelwal, the head of Nutrition Research and Additional Professor at Public Health Foundation of India, said the country has one of the most impressive portfolios of programmes and policies in nutrition in the books. 

“Research shows that our top-down approach, poor implementation processes, lack of effective monitoring and siloed approaches in tackling malnutrition often result in poor nutrition indices. We must integrate actions to make public health and nutrition a priority across each sector”. She further told PTI.  

It must also be stated that India is implementing a national nutrition plan, with focus on 115 aspirational districts, which are at the bottom of the pyramid of the social health indicators.

At such a young age of 25 where the competitors were 40 years old and so, Jalaj Tiwari has been contracting with some of the biggest projects across the state. Whether it is about building the biggest rail yard in Lucknow or its about building major bridges for Indian railways. He has kept his position to compete with the big players in the country like QuesCorp and AKP. After graduating from AKGEC, Jalaj stepped in to take small projects for Indian railways like the construction of minor bridges and maintenance of lines. Slowly and steadily he self-learned the art of contracting and started bidding for big projects. His journey was full of lots of downs initially where he missed out on 15 projects in the entire year, but he didn’t give up and kept his visions upfront of all the downfall. He also started picking up projects from the Power corporation fo Uttar Pradesh and the Public development work of the city. Between 2018 and 2020, he was the only one who provided the entire country with Partly casted sleepers to the railways and since then he hasn’t turned back.  Jalaj is also a fitness enthusiast who likes to give it back to the society with his company’s belief in Corporate social responsibility he likes to donate as much as he could to give it back to the society. He fed about 500 people across 30 days in the fix of Covid-19 when a lot of people were suffering due to a lack of resources amidst the lockdown. His vision to help everyone irrespective of where someone belongs to gives him hope to put food on everyone’s plate one day.  He is not only into taking up projects and finishing up often before time but also provides employment to lacs of people in terms of Security, technical or non-technical personnel. With his company “Shivam Shield” that employs lacs of people in different sectors like Government, Schools, Colleges, Industries, and more, he has been able to manage everything with his own hard work. When it comes to virtue, he strongly believes in converting opportunities for himself rather than sitting back with a setback. In such a time when most people preferred to work across different domains for other people, Jalaj decided to work for himself and kept himself afloat to grow the economy.

As we know the wedding is an event that is a celebration of a formal bond (marriage) between the couple in love. The bride wants to look stunning and her best once the best day of her life comes and that is the marriage day.

Anchal has been appreciated with a lot many awards and recognition such as lifestyle award – Wedding mantra magazine. Which led to the start of her journey in Bollywood with the renowned names of B-Town and presently she is working with Ashmit Patel.

Anchal Vadera, is one of the finest makeup artist from Faridabad. She customises party makeup, bridal makeup, pre-wedding makeups, and makeup for special occasions and makes you stand out on your best day.

She is one of the most famous makeup artists in Faridabad. Her experience and expertise bring the best look on the big day of any Bride. They use good quality products from the finest international cosmetic brands and all the services are safe and hygienic.

Anchal said “Every girl wants to look her best on during her Marriage. I provide personalised makeovers for every occasion. From Mehndi to Sangeet, Shaadi to Reception, pre-wedding or cocktail, a good makeup artist is needed to give dream-like makeover.”

According to one of her client Aishwarya, “Anchal is one whom I always wanted for my most precious day of my life. She brought out the best in me and created different looks as per occasion.”

Whether your wedding is in Faridabad or you have planned a destination wedding, I also travels outstations and gives a hassle-free make up experience. Anchal added.

In the face of rising pollution in the national capital, Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal has launched “Red Light On, Gaadi Off” campaign to curb vehicular pollution. The campaign seeks to encourage motorists to switch off vehicles while waiting on traffic signals. 

The Delhi Chief Minister said: “It has been seen that we often do not switch off our vehicle engines while waiting at traffic signals. That is called idling. The ‘Red Light On, Gaadi Off’ campaign will aim to bring a behavioural change in that regard. It will help reduce air pollution.”

Around 10 million vehicles are registered in Delhi, said Kejriwal, adding the even if one million of them actively follow the campaign, experts suggest that it can reduce PM10 emissions by 1.5 tonnes a year and PM2.5 emissions by 0.4 tonnes a year.

The air quality of Delhi NCR region is fast deteriorating with the onset of Winter months. With stubble burning in northern states, vehicular emissions and carbon emissions are seen adding to the pollution burden of the national capital.

The campaign will also seek to tackle the menace of stubble burning under which the farmers in Delhi region are being provided with a decomposer solution that would decompose the stubble without emitting the harmful emissions in the atmosphere. 

While requesting people to join the campaign, Kejriwal said, “Covid-19 has led to distress among people. Let’s ensure that pollution doesn’t make things worse for us.”

Anumita Roychowdhury, executive director at the Centre for Science and Environment, said, “For this campaign to work in terms of behavioural change, it is very important to make sure traffic signals have timers and that the timers are functional. Several survey estimates have shown that reduced idling can lead to energy saving and less toxic exposure to particulate matters, hydrocarbons, and nitrogen oxide.”Contact us – www.indiasaga.com.

Deepak Kochhar, the former ICICI Bank MD and CEO, was sent to the custody of the Enforcement Directorate after he was discharged from a private hospital in Delhi after testing negative for COVID-19  till October 17. He was taken to Mumbai and produced before a special court where the ED announced his five-day custody.

He was arrested on 7^th September in connection with the ICICI-Videocon loans case and was flown to Delhi for investigation. On 14^th September Kochhar tested positive for Covid-19 and was undergoing treatment in a Delhi hospital.

The court ordered Kochhar to send to judicial custody and directed the agency to present him before it within two days after he gets discharge.

On Tuesday, the agency extended his custody further stating that probe in the case is yet to be completed.

Vijay Agarwal and Rahul Agarwal the lawyers of Kochhar, opposed for being him sent to ED custody stating that he is still weak and as per the hospital’s report requires at least rest of 2 weeks. They also requested that he needs post-COVID care as per the government’s guidelines. Chanda Kochhar, the wife of Deepak Kochhar was also present in the court; she stated that her husband had suffered from the virus for almost three weeks and needs to have rest.

As Kochhar tested positive the court ordered to sent him to judicial custody and ordered to continue the probe. Earlier, his health was given priority and the custody was suspended.