by rakesh | Nov 11, 2006 | Health & Fitness
New Delhi, Delhi, India, Saturday, November 11, 2006 — (Business Wire India) — The first ever Global Youth Meet 2006 (GYM 2006) will be held in India between November 14 to 19. GYM 2006 is being organized by HRIDAY-SHAN (Health Related Information Dissemination Amongst Youth and Student Health Action Network) to empower young people to become informed advocates for policies towards promoting health.
National and international health experts, about 10,000 students and 270 delegates from 37 countries will participate in GYM 2006. Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh will inaugurate the meet on November 14, 2006 at the National Stadium in New Delhi.
The Global Youth Meet will travel to Agra from November 15 to 18 and a total of 220 youth leaders in the age group of 14-19 years will engage in four days of extensive deliberations. International experts from the World Health Organization, World Heart Federation, American Cancer Society, UNAIDS, UNESCO, UNDP, Clinton Global Initiative, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the World Bank as well as a host of Indian experts and health advocates will interact with the students. Health-related subjects, such as health and development, appropriate diet and nutrition, physical activity, stress management, environment conservation, tobacco and alcohol avoidance, healthy gender relations and promotion of peace and non violence will be discussed over several sessions during the meet.
Explaining the objectives of GYM, Hony. Executive Director of HRIDAY-SHAN Dr. K. Srinath Reddy said ” The present and future health of children across the world is threatened by many factors such as a degraded environment, unhealthy foods, tobacco marketing, unsafe roads, physical inactivity and HIV-AIDS. While it is important to provide young people adequate information about how to protect their health, it is also essential to ensure that governmental and societal policies promote and support health and not create unhealthy living conditions”.
“At this unique health meet we aim to discuss health issues and encourage students to actively articulate their demands for appropriate governmental policy to create a healthy living conditions. We will also use skill building workshops where they will increase their capacity to promote healthy environments at school, home and the community,” Dr Reddy added
International experts like Janet Voûte, Chief Executive Officer, World Heart Federation Geneva; Dr. Chris Dawe from Clinton Global Initiative Dr. Carolyn Dresler, Head of the Unit for Tobacco and Cancer at the International Agency for Research on Cancer in Lyon, France; Ms. Anna White, Coordinator of Global Partnerships for Tobacco Control (GPTC), and Dr. Robert Beaglehole, Director of Chronic Diseases and Health Promotion at WHO, Geneva will be participating in this youth meet. Several eminent Indians will also be among the resource persons.
On November 19, 2006, the Global Youth Meet will conclude with the launch of the Youth for Health (Y4H) campaign. Y4H, an initiative on a global scale, will conduct regular exchange of views on policy issues related to health, have concerted global e-advocacy and regularly coordinate national and international action programmes. Y4H envisages a worldwide movement of health advocacy by young change agents and will provide a powerful global platform of advocacy for health-promoting policies. This network will be facilitated by e-connectivity and assisted by HRIDAY-SHAN, WHO, World Heart Federation and GLOBALink.
About HRIDAY-SHAN
HRIDAY (Health Related Information Dissemination Amongst Youth) – SHAN(Student Health Action Network) is a voluntary organization of health professionals and social scientists, engaged in activities aiming to promote health awareness and informed health activism among social and college students in India, since 1992. Its work won international recognition through the WHO Tobacco Control Award in 2002.
by rakesh | Nov 10, 2006 | Business
Mumbai, Maharashtra, India, Friday, November 10, 2006 — (Business Wire India) — VFS (India) Private Limited, a trusted outsourcing partner to diplomatic missions worldwide has bagged the mandate to provide the administrative services required to facilitate travel & business Visa for Belgium.
The Belgium government has witnessed a quantum increase in the number of visitors from India to Belgium towards both leisure and business purposes. To simplify and facilitate speedier processing of visa for the people of India, the government of Belgium has appointed VFS, India as a specialist agency to manage the entire Visa application process. India is the first location in the world where such a facility encompassing a 360 degrees service would be made available. India is the natural choice owing to its high quality of human resources, advance technological developments and the strong historical trade relations shared between both countries.”
VFS, India will manage the Belgian visa application centre to help Visa applicants from the business, student and leisure traveling community through voice, e-mail and face-to-face communications. VFS will help in dissemination of information, pre-scrutiny of Visa applicants, database creation and scheduling of interviews. VFS is a leader in providing specialist business process outsourcing services targeted at diplomatic missions in managing the administrative tasks aimed at fulfilling the Visa application services. In the past five years since its inception, VFS has developed strong capability in Visa facilitation through continuous investments in trained human resources, proprietary software and cutting-edge technology.
by rakesh | Nov 10, 2006 | India News
To ensure safe movement of passengers, the trains are run at lower speeds. However, the slow movement of trains causes bunching on the tracks and at terminal stations, making it difficult to move all the trains. More trains, both passenger and freight, are expected to be delayed due to onset of winter and thickening of fog in the days to come.
Passengers and other concerned persons are requested to check up train arrival/departure timings through internet, voicemail or telephone service of the railways. The website addresses of Indian Railways and Northern Railway are www.indianrail.gov.in and www.nr.indianrail.gov.in.
by rakesh | Nov 2, 2006 | India News
Rajasthan’s Industry Commissioner Smt Usha Sharma reviewed the preparations at Rajasthan Pavilion and instructed accordingly.
The Director of Rajasthan Pavilion Shri Ravi Agarwal told that this year a tableau of Royal Court of Bikaner’s Anupgarh Palace would be showcased priorly and noted that the Facade would be decorated with traditional paintings of ”Pichchewai Art.”
In Pavilion various models would depict progress and development made by Tourism and Industrial departments of the State.
In the theme area Langa and Manganiar artists of the state costumed in traditional Rajasthani dresses with textile designs making scintillating performance and spreading songs in sanddumes would be a source of attraction.
In Pavilion the tableaus of Business Information Centre, Agriculture, Mines and Mining, Rajasthali, Rajasthan Electricity Corporation, RIICO, Tourism, Information Public Relations and cooperative Departments would also be decored. Besides this, Rajasthani Handicrafts, Art and delicious Rajasthani dishes would attract the visitors.
by rakesh | Nov 2, 2006 | Business
Amul Kool Café is targeted at ‘Generation X’ who is in search of a healthy beverage which is tasty, trendy, and nutritious. Amul plans to launch in the near future Coffee Mocha, Coffee Sugar free and decaffeinated flavours.
With this launch, the Gujarat Co-operative Milk Marketing Federation Ltd., Asia’s largest integrated dairy products manufacturing and marketing organization and India’s largest food company, further consolidates its position in the beverage market. The non-carbonated drink market has been showing a hefty double digit growth since the last couple of years. GCMMF is now a leading player in the Indian Dairy beverage market with over 90% market share in branded packaged dairy drinks segment.
In keeping with its goal of emerging as the single largest entity in the dairy beverage market, Amul introduced low calorie thirst quenching drinks, nutritious and tasty Amul Masti Buttermilk in addition to Amul Kool range of flavoured milk and also India’s first Sports and Energy drink Stamina. In keeping with this trend it has now launched Kool Café targeted towards the youth.
The Indian soft drink market is worth about Rs. 6000 crores per annum. The soft drink market can be broadly divided into two major segments – carbonated soft drink and non-carbonated soft drinks. The carbonated drinks account for 85% of the total soft drink market. However, the growth rate has been stagnant and in fact declining over the past few years. The non-carbonated drinks category includes special categories like fruit drinks, juices and dairy drinks, etc. With the changing lifestyles, the growth in non-carbonated drink category has been much higher than the carbonated category. There is an inherent need in the mind of the Indian consumer for a healthy drink. Amul Kool Café satisfies this need.
