The World Smart City Awards at FIRA Barcelona. Spain.

The World Smart City Awards at FIRA Barcelona. Spain.

This year a new category has been introduced, which is INNOVATIVE GLOBAL SOUTH AWARD FINALISTS,
The new award this year looks at innovative ideas that address pressing global challenges located in the Global South (Asia, Africa and Latin America).

Two of India's cities are in the INNOVATIVE GLOBAL SOUTH AWARD FINALISTS They are Bhubaneswar from Odisha and Chennai from Tamilnadu.


The six finalists are

Bhubaneswar Municipal Corporation. Bhubaneswar- INDIA
MicroClinic Technologies. Nairobi- KENYA
Transparencia Mexicana. Mexico City - MEXICO
Kabadiwalla Connect. Chennai – INDIA
Socièté d'aménagement Zenata (SAZ). Mohammedia – MOROCCO
VM9. Nova Friburgo - BRAZIL




Smart City Bhubaneswar: Achieving Social Equity through New Urbanism in Action

Bhubaneswar Municipal Corporation. Bhubaneswar- INDIA
Bhubaneswar's Smart City proposal focuses on developing a model for achieving social equity by placing children at the center of its transformation building upon the New Urban Agenda's three-legged approach- local fiscal systems, urban planning, and basic services and infrastructure.

Kabadiwalla Connect. Chennai – INDIA

Kabadiwalla Connect is an award winning urban waste management solutions provider in Chennai, India. Through technology, we leverage the circuits of the existing informal waste ecosystem to help send less recyclable waste to the landfill.

Also in  CITY AWARD category Pune city from Maharashtra is in the finalist. Thiscategory is Awarding Cities that demonstrate strategies, initiatives and policies that are established and have been developed for their citizens.

Reimagining Puneto become India's most livable city

Pune Municipal Corporation. Pune – INDIA

Detailed city profile of Pune and largest ever citizen engagement in India formed the basis of the proposal. Pan city solutions were developedfor maximum impact and local area solutions were designed for replicability. Puneranked 2nd in India's Smart Cities Challenge to winfunding of Rs. 1000 crs.

Image courtesy facebook page of  (http://www.smartcityexpo.com/awards)


http://www.smartcityexpo.com/awards

Vigilance awareness week Pledge and MTNL Mumbai.

Vigilance awareness week is observed by Central Vigilance Commission every year in India. The observance of the week creates awareness among Government Departments, Institutions and people to check corruption at every level. It inspires the system to implement preventive measures effectively, so that transparency and accountability can be maintained in the governance. The basic motto of this week to create a corruption free society.

This year the Vigilance week was a little different from the previous years. CVC initiated a concept of integrity pledge where citizens and organisations can take the integrity pledge. For this an website was created where individuals and organisations can take e pledge.

                                               http://pledge.cvc.nic.in/

The site is as follows

Lots of citizens and organisation took the pledge. Also people shared the certificate in their social media like facebook page, twitter page etc. So those of you who have not got their certificate about vigilance awareness can get by clicking the link.

MTNL The Navratna telecom PSU observed, Vigilance awareness week from 31. October 2016 to 05. November 2016. For this  Essay competition for students during Vigilance Awareness Week  at  Bhavans college.

Release of  Vigilance Information booklet by ED, MTNL, Mumbai. Shri Pravin Punj. GM Vigilance, MTNL Mumbai Shri P.K. Adhikari, DGM Vigilance Shri T  N SATHYAMOORTHY and other officials were present in the Release of the booklet.

Vigilance Awareness week inaugural function by ED, MTNL, Mumbai

MTNL Swachhta Abhiyan at Gateway of India

MTNL Swachhta Abhiyan at Gateway of India

MTNL carried out Cleanliness Drive at Gateway of India, Mumbai today. Shri G.K.Upadhyay, Member (Technology), Department of Telecommunications, New Delhi and Shri Pravin Punj, Executive Director, MTNL Mumbai, Senior Officers and about 100 MTNL employees in uniform picked up rags and cleaned the precincts of Gateway of India. Posters, Banners and Placards were also displayed to create awareness about Cleanliness and its necessity. The cleanliness drive brought forth participation from general public and tourists as well.

Shri G.K.Upadhyay, Member (Technology), Department of Telecommunications leading from front and cleaning the adjacent garden to Gateway of India.

 Shri Pravin Punj, Executive Director, MTNL Mumbai, also cleaning the adjacent garden.

 Shri G.K.Upadhyay,  Shri Pravin Punj,  along with senior officers of MTNL Mumbai.

MTNL employees cleaning the surroundings.

MTNL employees along with the banners and slogans about cleanliness.


This was the beginning of “Swachhta Pakhwara” being celebrated from 1 st to 15 th November in MTNL Mumbai. During this period all the employees have been requested to ensure cleanliness in Offices and Telephone Exchanges as well as in campus and their surroundings. A pledge was administered to all the officers and employees to devote at least 2 hours time every week towards the activity of cleanliness, besides creating awareness in this regard.

Sania Mirza- Sanjay Manjrekar tweet and the troll.

Twitter is increasingly becoming a hater's paradise and trollers heaven (especially in India). I would not be surprises if very soon most of the brands as well as celebrities, sportsperson, thinkers etc.

Just see a sample tweet e.g.

Here you can see that Indian Tennis player Sania Mirza tweeted that 


Sania Mirza

Verified account@MirzaSania

Today I complete 80 consecutive weeks as the number 1 player in d worldits been an amazing journey and just inspires me to work harder @WTA

Just to correct him ex-cricketer and commentator Sanjay Manjrekar corrected that No. 1 doubles player

Verified account‏@sanjaymanjrekar

Sanjay Manjrekar Retweeted Sania Mirza

No 1 doubles player you mean. Congrats!

Seems like a genuine reply/correction and and a wish.

But the trollers had a fun day see these tweets

Sanjay Sawant ‏@Sanjay_Uvacha 6 hours ago

@sanjaymanjrekar Do you always need to nitpick?

Sachin Khurana ‏@Sachinkhurana06  

4 hours ago

@Sanjay_Uvacha @sanjaymanjrekar old habits die hard.... the most irritating person on TV. Sudhar ja bhai mere @sanjaymanjrekar

Ashay Sahasrabuddhe ‏@iashay  6 hours ago

@sanjaymanjrekar this is typical Konkani खवचटपणा. आवडलंय. @MirzaSania congrats.

IamArien ‏@dubaidreamscity  10 minutes ago

@sanjaymanjrekar @MirzaSania boring as his commentary.... he always wanted to be @sachin_rt but end up becoming an average commentator..

Dr.Arshad Mir ‏@Drmirarshad  40m40 minutes ago

@sanjaymanjrekar @MirzaSania @WTA medicore cricketer, medicore commentator, medicore tweet....#SanajyMedicorekar

And there were many more, from his commentary to cricketing skill to regionalism the trollers started trolling him for all the reason. Recently Pritish Nandy also in his article wrote how Twitter is having a slow death.

Pen Pineapple Apple Pen, Another BRAINWASH song!!

Pen Pineapple Apple Pen (PPAP)

Another BRAINWASH song!!

In a week there are about 45 million views

Watch it here

Uber moves Shalini and Dharam (Pros & Cons)

Uber has started its new campaign on the theme, Uber moves Shalini and Dharam.


Like most of the mother Shalini's mother also looking for a suitable match for her. While commuting through UBERPool She is showing in various options which Shalini is rejecting. and Dharam has also booked the pool to whom Shalini's mother is asking various questions and his visiting card. When Dharam's destination arrives he says instead of you if Shalini calls me it would be better...and the advertisements ends with a beautiful smile.

Life is full of surprises - and you never know who you'll meet next! On your next uberPOOL ride - you could bump into your next boss, your next investor, or even your new best friend.

But In the youtube video there is a comment which reads as What if Dharam turns out to be a stalker and troubles Shalini's life instead? :D
And another comment reads as Agar agle 2 ride me meri girlfriend nahi bani to uber driver aur uber ki *** *****.

Although the ad honestly tries to capitalise on the strangers and surprises but there are some nasty surprises also.

Wild Tales (2014) Relatos salvajes (original title) Review.

Wild Tales (2014)  Relatos salvajes (original title)

This film is about Six short stories  "Pasternak" "The Rats" "The Strongest" "Little Bomb" "The Proposal" "Until Death Do Us Apart The wedding" that explore the extremities of human behavior involving people in a difficult situation. Some parts are short while others are a little long but each and every part will keep you curious and excited throughout the movie.

The starting part starts the tone for the movie in an airplane where a model & music critic kind of flirt with each other and while doing so they found out that they know a person named Pasternak both. The model's ex-lover and the critics who skrewed his work. Also others join in who have been associated with Pasternak in the past, his school teacher, friends who bullied him, his friend who stole his girlfriend etc. What will happen ?

This is the start of the movie, Welcome to Wild Tales.

The other parts The rats set up in a cafe will showcase the reaction of an old woman. A girl whose family has been harassed by the loan shark. The loan shark visits the cafe in am rainy afternoon and Wild Tales. What Will happen ? Welcome to Wild Tales.

The Strongest will showcase an incident of roadrage and both the drivers reaction to it. What Will happen ? Welcome to Wild Tales.

Little Bomb is my favourite in the Wild tales saga. How an ordinary citizen rises above the harassment done by civic authorities and will he be able to take revenge ?  Welcome to Wild Tales.

The proposal is also well made showcasing the greed of human when one person is in distress. Will the rich man succumbs to the greed of the police and lawyer ?  Welcome to Wild Tales.

The last part is the longest with some excitement one can imagine. In a big fat wedding the brie finds that the groom has cheated with her ? And the girl is a guest in the wedding. What will the bride do ? will she break the marriage off ?
What Will happen ? Welcome to Wild Tales.

Director:  Damián Szifrón

My ratings 8.2 out of 10