Age is just a number. Defying all norms, we have Dr. Supratim Akaash Paul who himself is an icon himself. As a new age dermatologist and cosmetologist, fitness and wellness expert and seasoned entrepreneur; Dr. Paul has lead by example. He himself has a fitness of a teenager and good looks to die for. So needless to mention, his array of ardent followers are all aging backward and proving that 40 is the new 20. 
Malaika Arora is one such name in Bollywood which only makes us come up with one expression “WOW”. From Malaika Arora’s perfect figure to her sharp well-sculpted facial contours, to her diet; in a word she is simply stunning it post 40. Dr. Paul shares how the wellness and natural way of lifestyle medicine have made Maliaka Arora ooze the hotness we see. External beauty is a manifestation of inner wellbeing. The name of the game is to remain stress-free and balance the hormones, only then it will show on the face. Malaika has oily skin but still, it remains to break out free and flawless. Here diet has a big role to play. Malaika has a lot of superfoods in her diet starting from broccoli salad, to avocado toast, to zucchini noodles, spirulina smoothies and so on. All the food that she intakes attributes majorly towards getting her acne-free, wrinkle-free flawless skin. In a word, she is a superfood junkie. 
The varied form of exercise Malaika incorporates in her daily regime helps her to sweat it out and detoxify herself. It is a good mix of yoga to pilates, functional training and cardio. Dr. Paul further says, the natural glow that you see on Malaika’s skin is a sign of water therapy, keeping the skin both internally and externally hydrated, use of water-based customized sunscreens, use of minimum make-up, tailor-made organic serums containing vitamin c and vitamin e and wheat germ extract. 
Malaika Arora’s entire lifestyle is dependent on the wellness way which is a specialty of Dr. Paul. “Malaika’s health, fitness and beauty journey involves a lot of hard work and discipline and focus, but when the result is Malaika Arora at the end of it all, I’m sure you all will agree that the effort is worthwhile,” says Dr. Paul.

In order to further increase the digital collection of user fees via FASTag at NH fee plazas, the National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) has decided to waive off the FASTag cost of Rs.100/- for NHAI FASTag between 15th and 29th February 2020. Road users can visit any authorized physical point-of-sale locations with a valid Registration Certificate (RC) of the vehicle and get an NHAI FASTag free of cost. NHAI FASTag may be purchased from all NH fee plazas, RTOs, Common Service Centres, transport hubs, petrol pumps, etc. To search for the nearest NHAI FASTag point-of-sale locations, one may download MyFASTag App, or visit www.ihmcl.com or Call 1033 NH Helpline number.
The applicable security deposit and minimum balance amount for the FASTag wallet shall, however, remain unchanged.
NHAI had earlier announced for Free NHAI FASTag from 22 Nov to 15 December 2019 to encourage people to adopt FASTag.

The Aam Aadmi Party of Arvind Kejriwal is all set to form the government in the national capital for the third time in a row, scoring a jumbo win in the 70-member Delhi Assembly as the counting of votes of February 8 polls was taken up on Tuesday.
Mr Kejriwal will head the government and his party is comfortably placed by bagging 63 seats, leaving seven seats for its nearest political rival Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). The Congress could not open its electoral account for the second successive time.
Mr Kejriwal’s victory can be easily compared to the last one in 2015 when it swept the polls in Delhi by winning 67 seats and conceding only three seats to the BJP. The Congress had drawn a blank last time too. Though the BJP’s vote share increased to 40.1 per cent, AAP’s share was a whopping 53.8 per cent and the Congress at a dismal 4.4 per cent.
In his victory speech, Mr Kejriwal blew a kiss at his supporters at the AAP office. With a beaming smile, he said: “You are amazing… I love you.”  He thanked the people for giving a third chance to his party for governing the Capital city.
“I want to thank the families of Delhi who treated me as your son and voted for us,” Mr Kejriwal said. He kept his remarks short and positive and did not make any reference to the barbs of the BJP against him.
The poll outcome in Delhi has given birth to a new kind of politics. “It is the politics of development. It is a message that Delhi will vote those who build schools, mohalla clinics, give cheap power, provide access to water and build roads… This is a new kind of politics and holds an auspicious message for the country,” he said in his victory speech. Neither he nor his senior party leaders, including Manish Sisodia and Raghav Chaddha, shied away from chants of “Bharat Mata Ki Jai” and “Vande Matram.”
There were some anxious moments during the day as AAP raced to a record win with Mr Sisodia from Patparganj and Atishi Marlena from Kalkaji being locked in close contests.

Over 1.47 crore voters people Saturday exercised their franchise to decide the fate of 672 candidates in the 70-member Assembly as exit polls have predicted the Aam Aadmi Party will retain power in Delhi leaving the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) a distant second while the Congress appears to remain in the realm of political irrelevance in the capital’s political landscape.

North East Delhi registered the highest voter turnout with 62.75 percent, while New Delhi recorded the lowest turnout with  51.57 percent exercising their franchise.

North West Delhi recorded 54.35 percent turnout, South Delhi saw 53.15 percent, the Central Delhi 53.05 percent, the South West Delhi 54.69, East Delhi 56.08, West Delhi 54.88. The voter turnout in New Delhi constituency, which had the highest number of candidates–28- including the Delhi Chief Minister and Aam Aadmi National Convenor Arvind Kejriwal, was 51.57 percent compared to 64.72 percent during the 2015 polls when Kejriwal defeated three-time Chief Minister late Sheila Dikshit by a margin of more than 30,000 votes.

Exit polls on Saturday forecast a win for the Aam Aadmi Party again in Delhi for the third consecutive time leaving the BJP a distant second while Congress may not open its account.

The Times Now-IPSOS exit polls predicted that Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal will retain power with AAP winning 44 seats against 26 for the BJP.

The Republic-Janki Baat survey gave the AAP 46-61 seats and the BJP 9-21 seats. The ABP News C Voter gave AAP 49-63 seats and BJP 5-1.

TV9 Bharatvarsh Cicero predicted 52-64 for AAP and 6-16 to BJP. Counting of votes will be held on February 11. A party will need 36 seats to stake a claim to form the government in Delhi. 

There was a decline of more than nine percentage points over the 2015 assembly elections in Delhi when 67.12 percent of the voters came to vote. 

This is for the first time since 1998 when Delhi has witnessed a drop in voter turnout over previous assembly elections. In 1998, the capital had recorded a voter turnout of just 48.99 percent.

In 2003, 2008,2013 and 2015, the turnout was 53.42, 57.58, 65.63 and 67.12 percent respectively.

India is facing a tough challenge in skill development. A recent report has brought forward figures that are not surprising but hard-hitting for the youth, who are struggling with the problems surrounding the higher education system and subsequent job readiness. 

Employability of India’s youth is dwindling, with only 46% of participants deemed job-ready. The report clearly calls out that imparting practical-oriented knowledge and helping in cultivating the right attitude among students towards job and learning, beginning at the school level itself will result in effective influence over the individuals. Banking and Financial Services and Insurance (BFSI) BPO, KPO and ITeS Internet business will be the top sectors for 2020, predicted the report by AICTE.*

In India 56% of employers are estimated to have a hard time finding appropriate talent. Globally India is the only country with a working age human surplus and it is going to be a huge segment of the population by 2025. We started AttainU to ensure that our demographic numbers convert into a dividend instead of a burden.

What do we do at AttainU:

AttainU provides high quality, online, college alternative education to help students beat the job blues by being technically sound, and employable.  Currently, we offer a 7 month-long software engineering course that helps students with career-oriented software engineering concepts, along with life skills required to succeed in the 21st century. We are heavily leveraging technology to, at scale, deliver a vertically integrated solution covering the below key areas –

1. Counseling – this is where we help the student understand what it means to be a Software Engineer as well as figure out if they would be able to benefit from our course which is based on their aptitude, inclination and most importantly ability to put in the required effort.
   
2. Skill Building – this is the central piece which allows us to deliver high-quality learning outcomes at scale. The crux here is maintaining high student engagement throughout the course. This is achieved through facilitating highly immersive interactions with instructors, mentors and peers focused around a centrally defined course path built-in line with industry partners and delivered by industry expert faculty. 
   
3. Placements – it’s unfair to talk about higher education without providing career support. This is where we prepare the students for placements, do the match-making and facilitate the interactions between our industry partners and students.
   
4. Income Share Agreement – this is a deferred fee payment model conditional to employment. This makes sure that we have skin in the game and aspirational students can afford this high-quality education irrespective of their financial background.
   

We are one of the very few companies working on a deferred payment model for students to enroll in our courses. 

What sets AttainU apart:

Zero to One Skilling – 

Our learning tracks provide a zero to one learning opportunity i.e. neither our industry partners nor we care about the degrees a person has. We take students from scratch all the way to expert entry-level software engineers in the industry. We have also had students, without any degree or with diplomas skilled through our programs and get placed in the end.

Online Model with 90% Completion Rate – 

Through our high-engaging managed marketplace approach we have been able to achieve 90% completion rates in an online education model. This makes it possible for everyone to benefit from our courses, without the need to move cities and take on additional living expenses. 

Being online, besides making our model infinitely scalable also allows us to, for the first time, collect a lot of granular data points around students and teaching staff interactions and progress. We use all of this data to preempt any student going off track, to iterate our teaching processes towards excellence, to better predict which students would be able to benefit most from our courses and to do a closer mapping between our placement partners and graduates.

We exist for the success of our students. Our goal is to not only prepare our students for their first interview, but also for financial success and intellectually fulfilling careers in future-proof domains. This is in line with our core value of creating a skills first college alternative.

Who is this course for:

Majority of our students are those who have been victims of the broken education system in India and either due to lack of finances or exposure did not get the right platform to evolve their skills. They come from varying educational backgrounds, some don’t even have any degree and a few others have multiple gap years due to family obligations in between. At this point, right after our first batch itself, we are seeing our graduates not only doing well for themselves, but also being amongst the best performers at their respective companies. As a result we have companies coming back to us keenly waiting for our next batches to graduate. These are strong signals of the future where degrees are losing their shine in front of skills.

Over the last 11 months we have received 70,000+ student applications, out of which we have been able to enroll 700+ students after our counselling and benchmarking. At this point we are starting batches of 150 every month. Our first batch recently graduated at a 90% completion rate and 70% students got pre-placement offers. We work with 150+ partners to meet their hiring requirements.

The problem solving:

We are living in a world of accelerated advancement. What this means for the tech industry is that as new technologies become available for use, the industry wants to apply these (hardware -> internet -> big data -> cloud computing, machine learning -> artificial intelligence -> data science) to more efficiently serve their business needs. Because of this, the industry needs the employed workforce to learn these new skills to be able to implement them. 

Above mentioned regular skill upgrade is only possible when the fundamental conceptual understanding is very solid and then an individual is able to build on top of those and pick up new skills as needed. A typical coding boot camp focuses on certain very specific technologies and hence it’s graduates suffer at the time when they are required to upgrade their skills. AttainU focuses on fundamental, conceptual understanding rather than teaching only particular technologies. In this regard, we are closer to a college preparing it’s graduates for a career in Software Engineering rather than only for the first job. AttainU’s curriculum and pedagogy are designed to teach the software engineering concepts in a technology (language/framework) agnostic way to ensure that our graduates are equally, if not better suited for a software engineering career as compared to CSE (Computer Science Engineering) college graduates. Due to this philosophy, we don’t need our students to have any background in software engineering before starting the course, all they need to have is a high growth potential including the will and wherewithal to put in the required effort.

By removing all the location and money barriers we are making high-quality, outcome-oriented education accessible for all. Through a scalable platform of the first approach to education, we want to get rid of this demand-supply gap and enable all to maximize their potential. 

*The report is a joint initiative of Wheebox (a Global Talent Assessment Company), Tagged by PeopleStrong and Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) in collaboration with UNDP, AICTE and Association of Indian Universities (AIU). 

The Author Is CEO and Co-Founder of AttainU

A direct flight between India and Vietnam is all set to be announced during the upcoming official visit of  Vice-President of Vietnam Ms. Dang Thai Ngoc Thinh.

The Vietnamese Vice-President will be on an official visit to India from February 11 to 13, Ministry of External Affairs spokesperson said here on Thursday.

She will hold bilateral delegation level talks with her Indian counterpart M. Venkaiah Naidu. There would also be a call-on the President Ram Nath Kovind.

During the visit Vice-President of Vietnam, the direct flight between India and Vietnam would be announced on February 12. The visiting Vice-President is also scheduled to visit Bodh Gaya on February 13.

India-Vietnam relations are built on the firm foundation of close cultural, historical, civilizational links and are marked by mutual trust and understanding as well as strong cooperation in regional and international fora. The visit of Vietnamese Vice-President would strengthen the Comprehensive Strategic Partnership established in 2016 between the two countries.

Punjabi Singer and Model Jagdeep Singh aka Jaggy Singh’s recent song ‘Muchh Tak Di’ released by T-Series has crossed more than 200k views on YouTube in less than 10 days. His previous release ‘HiFi Gabru’ also grabbed the eyeballs of the audience and received over one million views. Both the songs were not only highly appreciated by the audience but also helped Jaggy become the most promising urban singer in the Punjabi music industry. Jagdeep Singh who is currently working on his debut album is already flooded with great opportunities to work with big names of Bollywood and Punjabi music industry.

Born in Punjab, Jagdeep comes from a very humble family and none of his family members were previously linked to music in any way. Jagdeep Singh who moved to the U.S. at the age of 14, was fond of music since his childhood. He started following his passion for music by learning and playing Harmonium and Tabla. A few years later, he discovered his love for writing and composing. His inclination towards the music wasn’t a surprise as he had been going to Gurudwara since childhood. He started taking part in Kirtan at local Gurudwara in India and U.S and then it wasn’t too far until he realized that he sure has a voice to justify his own lyrics and compositions as well and later on pursued further vocal training.

Since the start, Jagdeep Singh’s family has always been supportive to carry on with his destiny and dreams. His inspiration for entering the music industry and following his dreams is a very selected and sheer class such as Gurdas Mann, Manmohan Waris, Harbhajan Mann, Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan Saab, R.D.Burman, 2Pac & Notorious BIG, to name a few.

Bali is an Indonesian island known for its forested volcanic cliffs, iconic rice paddies, beaches, and coral reefs. The island is home to spiritual locations like cliffside Uluwatu Temple. To the south, the beachside town of Kuta has vibrant bars, while Seminyak, Sanur, and Nusa Dua are prominent resort cities. The island is also recognized for its yoga and contemplation landings.

 But to provide such a mesmerizing place a touch of hospitality and the perfect blend of tourism is all furnished by the chain of luxury villa complexes at numerous sites in Seminyak, Bali, Indonesia. The resorts come up with excellent facilities like The Daha, The Grand Daha, Monaco Blu by Daha Resorts, The Daha Mansions and Casa Daha.

 To expand their villas they have initiated the construction of numerous modern villa sites in Seminyak, Ubud and Labuan Bajo. They have been around for several years and have achieved consecutive 9-10+ ratings on booking.com from their satisfied customers for their villas. Now they are all set to create a completely new gen of travel and tourism by giving them a comfortable stay and making their stay worth remembering.

Who isn’t aware of this young and powerful Influencer’s achievements? This time he has added one more feature to his cap. India’s Well-known Influencer and Youth Champion Manoj Padaiyachi has launched his fashion brand, Belive. The brand offers easy-to-wear styles for Youths including sweatshirts, hoodies, T-shirts, Crop-Tops and much more to the list, with over 200 styles that start at prices of Rs 599 onwards.

Belive Brand carries the vision of Manoj Padaiyachi to deliver something which makes you stand out from the rest.

Speaking on the concept of his Brand, Youth Icon Manoj Padaiyachi said

“The Brand name Belive is taken from the two words “Believe” and “Live”. They say that the secret of having it all starts with believing. When you believe in something, you acknowledge it, you are halfway there, but what after that? Do you live it? Do you take action on whatever you believe?

You need to ‘live’ it, right? You need to be alive. You need to experience it. So, Belive will remove the gap between thinking and taking action. It is the time to live, by wearing what you believe, on your sleeves.”

Speaking on the unique logo of belive and its dual-color, he further added, “ The arrow on the logo is very simple, it denotes onwards and upwards when you start living. The colors blue and yellow speak calmness, energy, and Youthfulness.”

Belive is launched all-over the Nation for all the Men and Women out there. Belive will be available for the US and Europe too. Every garment will be a style statement with motivational and inspirational thoughts, funky statements, and some weird captions by injecting some fun, love, and humor in the Youth’s life. For the release, belive has kept only a few designs and it will increase gradually.

The brand is specially dedicated to the young generation. It is a well-known thing that the youths are highly influenced by this 23-year-old Manoj Padaiyachi, who commands a massive young audience, especially from India.

“BeLive” is going to make you proud of who you are. So we are looking forward to each piece of garment that has a Midas touch of a great thinker.

Manoj is a firm believer to give you what your heart desires and what your mind inspires. Fiercely talented, tough, hard-working and daring Manoj has emerged as a popular face of India’s current Youth Influencers. The sky is the limit when you are going to believe in yourself and start taking action on it. So, wear what you believe and let the world know the real you.

Manoj is a Nation level Youth Champion Awardee. The President of Wealth Foundation, Manoj, has supported and contributed to the government’s social development initiatives. He has influenced the young generation through his content on social media and online blogs. He also writes about Lifestyle and Fitness.

Some are born with exceptional talent, and the one who practiced hard in the field he/she love then no one can stop them from achieving success in life. We met one fabulous talent who is multitalented, what will you call her A Fashion Designer, Entrepreneur, Tattoo Artist and what not? Divya Kapoor is a gem of talent and she is using it in the right direction. Diva who hails from North India (Jammu and Kashmir) and has her tattoo studio named ‘Taboo the tattooist’ located in the beautiful city of Jammu. She’s is only Female Tattoo Artist in Jammu (J&K). Diva is proving to be an example for all the youth who are aspiring to become a Tattoo artist. Although her journey to become one wasn’t so easy, as she did not have any formal training in tattoo art. She explains in her own words, “From being a small-time temporary tattoo artist to become an expert inking artist wasn’t a piece of cake, the journey was really hard. When I attended a seminar to learn the art, there was no one to try upon, so I used my own body and inked myself to master the art which was very difficult, but I never lost hope and never looked back”. For her passion for the art, she kept working relentlessly. Diva has picked up amazing tattoo skills at an unbelievable pace. She is inspired by her husband Gourav Jamwal, who is also a famous tattoo artist in India. Beacause of her appealing beauty, Diva is also getting offers from Pollywood. Diva is an ideal example for people who want to achieve big things in life. If you don’t get success in one thing, you can try other things in life. You have to just bring out your inner strength in life to achieve big in life. Here’s wishing Divya Kapoor all the best for her upcoming ventures. This girl will do many things in life as she blessed with some talent, and she is using her skill in the right direction by working hard on things passionately.