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6 days ago
- General
- News18
Sanjana Sanghi Becomes Youngest Indian To Address UNGA As UNDP Youth Champion
Last Updated: In 2024, Sanghi achieved a remarkable milestone by becoming the youngest Indian to deliver a keynote address at the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) Actor and humanitarian Sanjana Sanghi has etched her name as one of the leading voices for global change through her association with the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP). As a UNDP Youth Champion, she actively supports key pillars of sustainable development, from youth empowerment to digital inclusion and gender equality. The UNDP, the UN's leading agency, continues its mission to eradicate poverty, reduce inequality, and support sustainable growth across more than 170 countries. Its core approach focuses on shaping national policies, building capacity, and strengthening leadership to support the Sustainable Development Goals and empower communities worldwide. In 2024, Sanghi achieved a remarkable milestone by becoming the youngest Indian to deliver a keynote address at the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA), following in the footsteps of global icons like Priyanka Chopra Jonas. Sanghi's commitment to grassroots change dates back to her college days. Reflecting on her journey, Sanjana shared Sanjana said, 'It's incredibly empowering to see young people not just dreaming of a better world, but actively building it. My association with UNDP allows me to amplify these voices and help create pathways for their impactful solutions." She added, 'Working with the UNDP has been an enriching journey. It's a privilege to contribute to a global mission that directly impacts lives and empowers the next generation to be the architects of a sustainable future. From working on ensuring education proliferation amongst underprivileged communities to promoting digital literacy and gender equality among young people." This year, she was also invited to the UN Headquarters to lead 'Youth For Change' — UNDP's flagship campaign aimed at encouraging the younger generation to take on leadership roles and address global challenges. The initiative serves as a dynamic platform for raising awareness and inspiring youth to act as changemakers by recognising global issues and offering innovative solutions. Taking to her Instagram, Sanjana also shared a series of pictures straight from the UN Headquarters, proudly carrying the UNDP logo on her outfit. Along with the post, she wrote: 'Nothing like being back at the @unitednations HQ and working towards being the architects of our future, and not just the inheritors of it." View this post on Instagram A post shared by Sanjana Sanghi (@sanjanasanghi96) Looking ahead, Sanghi is set to launch the finale of the 2025 Youth Co: Lab, a social innovation platform organized in partnership with Niti Aayog. Now in its third year, the initiative incubates young entrepreneurs who are creating purpose-driven ventures for social good. Beyond her advocacy work, the Dil Bechara actress finds inspiration in New York City, often expressing her fondness for the city's iconic spots like Central Park and the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Her experiences in the city continue to fuel her passion for global change. With her growing influence and unwavering commitment, Sanjana Sanghi stands as a beacon of hope for youth-led global transformation. First Published:
Time of India
27-05-2025
- Time of India
Rajkot immigration consultant duped of Rs 31 lakh in visa scam
RAJKOT: A man engaged in the business of immigration consultancy in Rajkot became a victim of immigration fraud himself, losing Rs 31 lakh that he paid to obtain a Europe work permit for his clients and himself and his family members. A complaint was registered by Varis Ali Sanghi, who has run a firm for the last five years providing consultancy for obtaining various kinds of visas and preparing necessary documents for his clients. Sanghi also advertises his business online. In July, he received a call from an unknown number. The caller identified himself as Mahammad Aavez, a resident of Uttarakhand, who informed him that he had seen Sanghi's online advertisement about visa and work permit consultancy. Aavez claimed that he was involved in work permit consultancy for many European countries and that his success rate was good. He asked Sanghi to forward some clients and assured him that he would take payment only after obtaining the work permit. Initially, Sanghi did not trust him and asked him to come to Rajkot. Aavez came to Rajkot a few days later and met Sanghi. He also made Sanghi speak with his partner in Delhi. After a few months, Sanghi went to Uttarakhand to see Aavez's work and visited his office. by Taboola by Taboola Sponsored Links Sponsored Links Promoted Links Promoted Links You May Like Giao dịch vàng CFDs với sàn môi giới tin cậy IC Markets Tìm hiểu thêm Undo He gained trust by seeing the files of people who had obtained European work visas and contracts. In order to earn a good commission from his clients, Sanghi sent documents of his clients, himself, and some of his family members to obtain European work permits. He paid Rs 31 lakh to get visas for 21 people. He received online work permits and flight tickets a few days later, and Sanghi also confirmed the booking of the tickets with Airliance. Five of them were supposed to take a flight from Mumbai, but when they reached the airport, they discovered that their tickets were cancelled. Aavez's phone was switched off. Sanghi went to Uttarakhand and found that Aavez's office was closed. He stayed there for 25 days and discovered that Aavez and Aflak Ahemad had cheated them. He approached the police in December 2024. The Pradhyuman Nagar police registered a complaint on May 26 against Mahammad Aavez, a resident of Kashipur, Uttarakhand, and Aflak Ahemad, a resident of Janakpuri, Delhi, under BNS sections 318 (4) and 61.
The Wire
04-05-2025
- Politics
- The Wire
Modi's U-turn on Caste Census: The Battle for Comprehensive Social Justice Needs to be Intensified
Just when the country was expecting some decisive response from the Modi government in the wake of the Pahalgam terror attack, the regime took everybody by surprise by announcing its readiness to conduct a caste enumeration as part of the already over delayed census. There is of course no announcement yet about the timeline of the census. The 2025-26 budget made no provision for this massive exercise. With no signs of the census happening anytime soon, the announcement at this moment must be seen more as a calculated political move ahead of the crucial Bihar elections than an immediate agenda of action. Be that as it may, this is a major announcement for a caste-ridden society where the last caste census was conducted in 1931. For the Sangh-BJP establishment, this latest Modi 'masterstroke' is perhaps the biggest Sanghi U-turn in decades. In the run-up to the 2024 elections when the INDIA bloc and the Congress led by Rahul Gandhi made a forceful demand for caste census, the entire Sangh-BJP establishment called it a divisive and 'urban Naxal' agenda. We cannot but remember how when the VP Singh government had taken the historic step to announce partial implementation of the Mandal Commission recommendations in 1990, the BJP engineered the government's defeat in a no-confidence motion, much the same way as the Jan Sangh had ousted Karpoori Thakur from power after the implementation of reservation for OBCs in Bihar in the late 1970s on the basis of the Mungeri Lal Commission report. It is well known that the Sangh brigade opposed the Mandal Commission measures of OBC empowerment as fiercely as it had opposed the Constitution of India at the time of its adoption. It is another thing that now in power, it swears allegiance to the Constitution even as it wages a relentless war of subversion of all constitutional values, principles and objectives; and with the rise of Modi it has been busy projecting the BJP as the biggest champion of OBC assertion. Sangh-BJP's desperation to hijack the popular call for comprehensive social justice Now, the latest caste census U-turn signals the Sangh-BJP's desperation to hijack the popular call for comprehensive social justice even as the Sangh brigade is busy trying to stop the biopic on Savitribai and Jyotirao Phule, the legendary pioneers of women's education and bahujan empowerment in 19th century India and its members continue to perpetrate caste atrocities across the country. Post-Pahalgam, the Sangh brigade worked overtime to weaponise the terror attack for its agenda of hate and division. When terrorists kill on the basis of religion, other identities like caste, language and region should no more matter – this was the aggressive Sanghi line of post-Pahalgam propaganda. But now, just a week after the attack, the government itself has decided to ask everybody's caste identity, making it clear that the government needs an urgent tool to deflect public attention away from the questions that Pahalgam has generated. Ten years ago, the BJP had cut a sorry figure in Bihar when it did not have the support of Nitish Kumar and Bihar reacted strongly against Mohan Bhagwat's call for 'review' of reservations, a thinly veiled expression of the Sangh-BJP clamour for ending reservation. Ahead of the 2024 elections, the same Bhagwat acknowledged two thousand years of caste oppression, a departure from the oft-repeated Sangh formulation of caste as a defence mechanism adopted by Hindus in the face of 'Muslim aggression' or caste as a colonial era legacy, and asked the Sangh to tolerate reservations for two hundred years. And now ahead of the forthcoming Assembly elections in Bihar, the Modi government is trying to camouflage the Sangh's campaign of subversion of the Constitution in general, and reservations in particular by this sudden announcement of caste census. Also Read: RSS and the Global Far-Right: Expanding Links, Growing Ambition The same Sangh-BJP ideologues, IT cell and godi media amplifiers who were mocking at the call for caste census till the other day have overnight turned into caste census exponents. The government which told the Supreme Court that conducting a caste census was a logistical nightmare and impossibility is now busy blaming the Congress for not having held a caste census all these years. The Modi-Yogi slogans 'batenge toh katenge' (divided you'll be slaughtered) and 'ek hai to safe hai' (stay united to stay safe) that were coined and repeated endlessly during the 2024 BJP Lok Sabha campaign in order to counter the caste census demand and advocate Hindu unity on the basis of anti-Muslim fear and hate, have now been put on the back burner. Bihar had already done its caste count in 2023 and on the basis of the 2023 caste data, the state Assembly had unanimously adopted a resolution to enhance the level of reservation to 65 percent. The onus for getting it implemented by incorporating it in the 9th Schedule of the Constitution and thus taking it out of the ambit of judicial review lay with the Modi government. With this caste census announcement, the Modi government now seeks to nullify the caste surveys that have already taken place in states and defer the whole agenda to an indefinite future. The social justice movement of India must therefore become more alert and mount decisive pressure on the government to implement the caste census at the earliest and take it to its logical conclusion. Reservation as a measure of affirmative action has lost much of its earlier efficacy In the absence of up-to-date caste data and given the Supreme Court directed cap of 50 percent on caste-based reservation, the OBC quota has been pegged at 27 percent, way lower than the estimated proportion of OBC population in Indian society. Even this 27 percent reservation has been achieved only in phases, first in government employment in 1990 and then in central educational institutions in 2006. But with relentless downsizing of government jobs, institutionalisation of lateral entry in higher echelons of bureaucracy to bypass reservations and most recently with the introduction of reservation on economic basis for otherwise privileged caste groups, reservation as a measure of affirmative action has lost much of its earlier efficacy. The social justice movement must therefore fight for not just removal of the artificial 50 percent quota cap and for extension of reservation to the private sector, but also for completion of effective land reforms and reversal of the neoliberal policies that have undermined the state's role in the spheres of education and employment. A properly conducted caste census should reveal a comprehensive picture of social inequality in India. Now that the social justice movement has succeeded in forcing the Modi government to agree to this first step, the battle has to be intensified not only for an honest timebound implementation of the census but also for necessary follow-up action to destroy caste-based privileges and ensure fair representation and rightful participation of the historically excluded and underrepresented sections of Indians in all spheres. The writer is General Secretary of CPI (ML-Liberation).
Time of India
01-05-2025
- Business
- Time of India
Fiber has stronghold in backhaul connectivity: Industry
NEW DELHI: Fiber has a stronghold in underpinning India's telecom infrastructure in the backhaul, despite the emergence of new technologies, according to executives of the country's top telecom carriers. 'More fiber will ensure coverage of newer areas on fiber. Besides fiber, there are technologies like microwave and E-band, which have more scalability and capability, but also have limitations. So these technologies have to complement fiber,' said Deepak Sanghi, executive vice president, head (IP & transport network), Bharti Airtel , at the eighth edition of the ETTelecom 5G Congress 2025, which concluded on March 24. Sanghi said cost engineering and optimisations are equally necessary before implementing a new network connectivity technology, particularly in a cost-sensitive market like India. 'Any technology is good to implement unless and until we work on the cost aspect. There have to be significant changes from this perspective so that we stay continuously on the path to lower cost per bit,' he added. Girish Dave, head (5G, 6G & AI solution management), Jio, in turn, said that fiber continues to be the 'gold standard' for physical connectivity, especially for last-mile access in urban regions. 'But in the dense urban areas where it is not feasible to put a fiber, we use outdoor CPEs (consumer premises equipment) to connect to the radio base station. Using this arrangement, we are comfortably achieving up to 1 Gbps speeds with C-band spectrum. So this is the level of innovation happening in the industry,' Dave added. Jophy Varghese, APAC head (system integration) & country manager (India), Verizon Business , noted that telcos face several challenges in upgrading their backhaul networks, ranging from cost, interoperability, vendor lock-in, regulatory compliance, and security. 'So I think the companies are investing heavily to ensure that while they are undergoing this mega shift, the customer experience does not get impacted,' Varghese added. 'I think the hyperscalers and the overall ecosystems are coming together to ensure that we are gearing up for the future. We would see more partnerships being forged in this space as we move forward.' Pashupati Singh, director (account management), Ciena , said that the industry is increasingly making backhaul networks robust to cater to the demands for a nearly 100% uptime and ultra-low-latency bandwidth. 'Here, AI and machine learning (ML) play a very important role for any network. With AI and ML of late, globally we have been able to develop algorithms that help us understand and proactively predict events in real-time to prevent outages and service disruptions,' Singh said. 'With the help of these, we will help everyone to reduce the cost per bit and improve uptime.' 'O&M (operations & maintenance) plays a vital role in any network. The guaranteed uptime and the quality of fiber also play vital roles. Improvement of the fiber quality is the most important factor for any fiber backbone, or you will have a jittery experience,' said Sandeep Donde, founder & CEO, Microscan Infocomm . Donde suggested that the telecom industry may consider consolidating its fiber infrastructure footprint to attain synergies, resiliency, and quality of services. 'Fiber plays a major role in backhaul to an ordinary person, such as for connecting a tower to the core network or a customer premises to the internet. The deeper the fiber, the less the load on backhaul. Backhaul needs to be very strong, especially for companies like us specialising in content delivery,' said Anil Malhotra, chief revenue officer (affiliate sales) and head (public & regulatory affairs), Zee Entertainment Enterprises Limited. Akanksha Saxena, director, KPMG India, moderated the panel discussion.
Reuters
06-02-2025
- Automotive
- Reuters
Microchip forecasts dour quarterly results as customers reduce excess inventory
Feb 6 (Reuters) - Chipmaker Microchip Technology (MCHP.O), opens new tab forecast fourth-quarter net sales and profit below Wall Street estimates on Thursday, anticipating tepid demand as customers in the automotive market still work on clearing excess inventory. Shares of the Chandler, Arizona-based company fell nearly 5% in extended trading. Automakers had stocked up chips during the pandemic to avoid a supply crunch, but now are grappling with an inventory glut due to lower demand. Analysts expect the weakness in the automotive end market to continue through the first half of the year due to high inventory and softer end demand. "While we have seen substantial inventory destocking at our customers and channel partners, we believe the correction cycle is still not completed," said CEO Steve Sanghi. The company is taking a "methodical yet urgent approach to evaluating all aspects of our business and implementing necessary changes to strengthen our competitive position," Sanghi added. Microchip expects net sales in the range of $920 million to $1 billion for the fourth quarter, compared with analysts' average estimate of $1.06 billion, according to data compiled by LSEG. It expects adjusted profit per share between 5 cents and 15 cents, compared with estimates of 27 cents. For the third quarter ended December 31, the company posted net sales of $1.03 billion, down 42% from las year, missing analysts' estimate of $1.06 billion. Excluding items, third-quarter profit per share came in at 20 cents, compared with estimates of 27 cents. Peer NXP Semiconductors (NXPI.O), opens new tab forecast its first-quarter revenue below analysts' estimates on Monday, in a sign of sluggish demand for its chips from industrial and automotive customers.
