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Emeritus collaborates with MIT Sloan, Columbia Business School

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Press Trust of India New Delhi
Last Updated : Mar 28 2016 | 7:28 PM IST
In order to make top-tier business education accessible, Emeritus Institute of Management has collaborated with MIT Sloan, Columbia Business School and Tuck at Dartmouth.
Through this collaboration, Indian students can now access IVY League business education, a company release said.
"Using technology and curriculum innovation, Emeritus opens doors for tens of thousands of Indian students who want to pursue a high-quality business education while continuing to work," Ashwin Damera, Executive Director and Member of the Academic Board of Emeritus said.
An one-year programs cost Rs 2,60,000 and smaller duration, 6-8 week certificate programs cost Rs 45,000, it added.
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Saregama launches devotional music app
* RP Sanjiv Goenka Group owned music label Saregama has launched a new app 'Saregama Shakti' which will offer a large collection of devotional music on demand.

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The app features bhajans by renowned artistes like Lata Mangeshkar, Anup Jalota, Jagjit Singh, Asha Bhosle, Suresh Wadkar, Anuradha Paudwal and Sadhna Sargam, among others, a company release said today.
It will also offer audio recitals of granths (religious books) like 'Tulsi Ramayana', 'Geeta Govinda', 'Sundar Kand', 'Satyanarayan Katha', 'Sai Satcharitra Granth' and 'Krishna Charit Manas'.
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Tech Mahindra to work as member in GE Digital Alliance Prog * Tech Mahindra, country's fifth biggest IT exporter, today said it will work as a member in the GE Digital Alliance Program and devote over 1,000 developers for it over next few months.
The Mahindra Group company said it has been an early adopted of the Predix platform, GE's cloud platform-as-a- service for the industrial Internet, and has over 100 experts trained in it.
As part of the alliance, it will work with GE to jointly create solutions for the power, oil and gas, and transportation sectors, a company statement said.
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Chillr ties up with Bharat Bank
* Mobile payment app Chillr today said customers of Bharat Bank, a lender from the co-operative space, will be able to instantly transfer money to anyone in their phonebooks.
The company has tie-up with the bank to make such services possible, it said in a statement.
A2Z Infra wins USD 3.83 million contract from Uganda govt
* Infrastructure firm A2Z Infra Engineering today said it has won a USD 3.83 million contract from the government of Uganda for transmission lines.
"A contract has been awarded from Ministry of Energy and Mineral Development (The Republic of Uganda) ... For Design, Supply and Construction of MV lines and associated low voltage network in various project areas along Kawanda Masaka 220KV Transmission Line," the company said in a BSE filing.
The contract price aggregates to "USD 3,835,099.39," the company said.
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Angel Broking launches #Customer Service on Facebook, Twitter * Retail brokerage Angel Broking today announced the launch of an initiative that will allow its customers to get their key account-related information through Facebook and Twitter.
The new service -- #CustomerService -- would help customers take quicker investment decisions.
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Snapdeal partners with Godrej Security Solutions * Online marketplace Snapdeal has partnered with Godrej Security Solutions, whereby experts from Godrej Security Consulting Services will visit Snapdeal customers to assess and suggest measures on making their homes more secure.
The service will be available in Mumbai, Thane, Panvel, Navi Mumbai, New Delhi and Gurgaon.
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Paytm ties up with Suzuki Motorcycles
* Mobile commerce platform Paytm has entered a strategic partnership with Suzuki Motorcycle India to provide customers the largest assortment of bike and scooter models across all transactional platforms in India.
CNBTEC develops solutions to manage container yard
* Bengaluru-based CNB Technologies today said it has developed a unique and cost effective solution, HAWK, to manage and plan a container yard in real time.
"CNB Technologies Pvt Ltd, a hardware-software product company focusing on shipping logistics industry, has developed a unique and cost effective solution, HAWK, to manage and plan a container yard in real time using their IoT (Internet of Things) platform," the company said in a statement.
It said the solution is used for managing the complete yard by recording all the activities happening inside a container yard in a fully automatic manner and added that there are no manual interventions in recording these data making it error free.
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Waterfield crosses USD 1 bn mark of assets under advisory * Waterfield Advisors, an advisory firm to family-owned businesses, today said it has crossed USD 1 billion of assets under advisory.
The Mumbai-based firm was set up in 2011 and has a strategic investment in the business by Patni scions Amit and Arihant Patni in 2014. The firm offers advisory to established wealthy business families as well as first generation entrepreneurs.
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Inkel Greens to create 5,000 jobs in 2 years * Keeping up pace with the government's policy on employment generation, Inkel Greens, Malappuram, is set to create about 5,000 jobs within the next two years.
As many as 26 companies and five educational institutions have lined up investments worth Rs 130 crore and Rs 70 crore respectively, and have started setting up their infrastructure at the park, which has been developed by the state government's PPP-initiative Inkel Limited, a release said.
Spread over 168 acres in Panakkad, Malappuram, Inkel Greens has a dedicated industrial zone called 'SME Park' and an educational zone called 'Edu City'.
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Sobha to launch luxury apartment project in Del-NCR * Realty firm Sobha will launch its first luxury apartment project, SobhaCity in Delhi-NCR on June 29.
It is one of the largest group housingprojects in Gurgaon, the company said in arelease today.
Located in sector 108 of Gurgaon and spread over 39 acres, Sobha City comprises 1700 apartments across22 towers with four units on each floor. The project offers 2 BHK and 3 BHK apartments that rangefrom 1,380 sq ft to 2,342 sq ft, it added.

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First Published: Mar 28 2016 | 7:28 PM IST

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