OPPO rolls out ‘The Chronicles of Sharma-Verma’ digital campaign to showcase its after-sale services in India

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OPPO India has launched three digital films capturing the chronicles of The brand aims to highlight its commitment to provide after-sales services for customers by connecting different aspects of everyday situations with the importance of convenience and ease in a customers life. Customer-centricity is at the core of everything we do at OPPO. The campaign showcases the brand Conceptualised by Havas Creative, the campaign aims to highlight how easy and reliable OPPOs after-sale services process is. Capturing small elements of quirkiness, the films shows the fast after-sale services by showing free inspection, 30 days replacement, and quick service and repair features. After-sales service is a serious business, but when looked at the reasons for which one visits the service center, it ranges from silly to unfortunate, Bobby Pawar, chairman and chief creative officer, Havas Group India, said, The ads begin on a funny note and slowly veer towards a serious note- that of OPPO keeping its word to its customers, and thats what we wanted to bring alive As per the company, the campaign is in line with the high rate of customer satisfaction OPPO received over the years and how the brand continues to enrich its customers lives through impeccable services. The brand currently has over 500 service centres spread across over 500 cities, forming the brands premium experience in after-sales service. OPPO strives to provide a comprehensive customer experience across its customer base. Further, OPPO India has introduced a dedicated AI-powered Chatbot called 5% of their queries. Read Also: Shyam Steel ropes in Lovlina Borgohain and Manpreet Singh as brand ambassadors Follow us on Twitter,Instagram,LinkedIn,Facebook

Understanding the psychology of kids for successful parenting

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By Sahil Kothari Understanding your child is one of the most important lessons you can acquire as a parent. It is really beneficial in terms of being an excellent mentor and nurturer to your child as they grow and mature. Keep in mind that your child has a personality feature that will last his or her entire life. Each parenting style has a unique influence on childrens behavior and may be identified by distinct characteristics such as responsiveness (how warm and attentive parents are to their childrens needs) and demandingness (the extent of control parents put on their children in an attempt to influence their behavior). Be a friend than a boss: Imagine going to someone and revealing your deepest darkest secrets knowing that the person won Children below the age of 5 cannot tell the difference between fantasy and reality and they always feel guilty when bad things happen. Parents being the only two people that they spend their maximum time with makes children very susceptible to the way parents dictate their parenting on them. Giving children all the liberty to be themselves and giving them the confidence that there will always be someone to understand will help foster a strong relationship between the parent and the children in their later stages in life. Say a YES: Children loathe the word For example, if your children ask for your permission to watch TV when in that time they had to study instead, answer them in a manner like this- Rather than imposing a direct NO, a yes followed by the agreement on completing a task will not make children feel like a victim of your dictatorship. Become their Hero: Children spend the maximum amount of their time fantasizing about non-realistic events. They go to mars and come back in a second, make spiderman their best friend, and venture into their lalaland. Parents should always keep try and tap into their children Be their favorite cartoon character or their favorite superhero and inherit the character Let the children see that their parents can become their dearest gummy bears and it is the parents responsibility to make them understand why is the gummy bear the best. Don Harsh limits may temporarily control behavior, but they do not help a child learn to self-regulate. Strict limits, on the other hand, drive people to avoid assuming responsibility for themselves. Children evolve as better humans if they are nurtured with care and love and they tend to empathize with other people better. Therefore, it becomes very important for parents to adopt a soft approach with their parenting style and go easy on their children even if they commit a grim mistake. Justify your words with actions: The last yet most important psychological tip for healthy parenting is for the parents to stay committed to their words. Many times we often promise something to our children but then don This can create a lot of trust issues that the children may have with the parents later on. So if you have promised to take your children on vacation next month, make sure you do keep that promise and go on the vacation. Keeping all the promises during the early development phase of the child will bring up the children in a way that will encourage them to keep on to the promises they give to their parents. (The author is a life coach, motivational speaker and founder of Sahil Kothari Training and Consultancy. Views expressed are personal and do not reflect the official position or policy of the Financial Express Online.)

JEE Advanced 2021: Exam date out; check application form date, other details

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ndian Institute of Technology (IIT) Kharagpur has announced the date for JEE Advanced 2021 exam. According to the schedule released by IIT Kharagpur, the JEE Advanced exam will be conducted on October 3, 2021. The application process for the JEE Advanced exam will also begin from September 11 and conclude by September 16. All candidates wanting to sit for the JEE Advanced exam must complete their exam application process before 5 PM on September 16 as no more applications will be accepted by the portal after the deadline has expired. Candidates must also note that post the submission of their application form, they will also need to deposit the examination fee before the stipulated deadline of 5 PM on September 17. For applying online candidates can visit the official website- jeeadv.ac.in. The released schedule also mentioned that the admit card for the JEE Advanced exam will be released on the morning of September 25 at 10 AM. Once the exam has been conducted on October 3, candidates will also be allowed to download their response copy from October 5. Candidates with the help of their response copy will be able to identify the areas and questions they scored decently and the areas that they lacked during the exam. JEE Advanced Exam pattern The exam will be conducted in two phases- Paper 1 and Paper 2. Both the papers will be conducted on the Computer Based Test (CBT) system and candidates will have to solve questions from three core subjects-Physics, Mathematics and Chemistry. Both the papers will last for a duration of 3 hours each and candidates need to aim to solve as many questions as possible during the stipulated time. While the first paper will be conducted between 9 AM and 12 PM, the second paper will be conducted between 02:30 PM and 05:30 PM. As many as 2.5 lakh candidates who have already qualified in the JEE Mains exam will be sitting in the JEE Advanced exam and students will be allotted premiere engineering institutions in the country on the basis of their marks in the JEE Advanced exam. JEE Advanced: How to apply 1. Candidates will need to visit the official site- jeeadv.ac.in. 2. Once the candidates have reached the website, they will need to click on the registration link showing JEE Advanced Registration. 3. All the details in the application form need to be filled in the online registration form. 4. Once the form has been accepted, candidates must also complete their payment to ultimately complete the JEE Advanced application form.

RIL, Just Dial, IOCL, BPCL, HPCL, Vodafone Idea, Adani Green, PNB, Coal India stocks in focus

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Nifty futures turned positive and were trading 26.50 points up at 17,286 on Singaporean Exchange, indicating a gap-up start for BSE Sensex and Nifty 50. Benchmark indices are likely to hit fresh record highs in todays session. Investors would react to the Services PMI data for August, due to be announced today. The intraday rally on Thursday indicates further uptrend from the current levels but the market has formed a double top kind of formation. For the trend following traders, 17150 would be the key support level, and above the same, the uptrend structure could continue up to 17300-17350 levels. On the flip side, if the Nifty slips below 17150, it may trigger a quick intraday correction till 17100-17075 levels, Shrikant Chouhan, Executive Vice President, Equity Technical Research, Kotak Securities, said. Stocks to watch RIL, Just Dial: Mukesh Ambani-led Reliance Retail on Thursday said it has acquired sole control of 25-year-old search and discovery firm Just Dial. The firm IOCL, BPCL, HPCL: Oil marketing companies Indian Oil Corporation, Bharat Petroleum Corporation and Hindustan Petroleum Corporation have been given the mandate to set up around 12 ethanol manufacturing plants as part of a road map to meet the 20% ethanol blending target by 2025. Vodafone Idea: Officials of the Department of Telecommunications (DoT) are understood to have held regular meetings with senior executives of Vodafone Idea over the past few days, as the government tries to work out a revival package for the financially distressed telecom sector, the immediate beneficiary of which would be the ailing telco. Coal India: Coal India (CIL) has prioritised supply to power plants that have stocks to last zero to six days, offering coal on The company has identified 23 such mines carrying 40.3 million tonne (MT) of stock as of August 16. Adani Green Energy: AGEL has raised $750 million through its maiden ListCo senior issuance under the 144A\/Reg S format. The format allows issuers to broaden their investor base and to access large, highly capitalised US institutional investors in the private placement market. PNB: Punjab National Bank on Thursday urged a tribunal to quash the rescue plan for defunct debt-laden Jet Airways, alleging irregularities in it, a move that risks delaying any return of the airline grounded two years ago. Dr Reddys Lab, Natco Pharma: Dr Reddys Laboratories and Natco Pharma have launched generic capsules used in the treatment of multiple myeloma and myelodysplastic syndrome patients in the Canadian market. Larsen Toubro: Goodluck India has been awarded Letter of Intent for order worth Rs 198.76 crore by LT Ltd for the Bullet Train project.

China trying to take over Bagram air force base, use Pakistan against India: Nikki Haley

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In the aftermath of the Taliban regaining power in Afghanistan, a former senior American diplomat has said there is a need to closely watch China as it is making a move to take over the Bagram air force base that was controlled by the United States for nearly two decades. Americas former envoy to the United Nations Nikki Haley told Fox News on Wednesday that it is time that President Joe Bidens administration reaches out to its key friends and allies like India, Japan and Australia and assure them that the US will have their back. The first thing you should do is immediately start connecting with our allies, whether its Taiwan, whether its Ukraine, whether its Israel, whether its India, Australia, Japan, all of them, and reassure them that we will have their back and that we need them as well, Haley said. Secondly, we need to make sure that we are going on an anti-terrorist effort across the world, because we are now going to see – with this moral victory that the jihadists have, you are going to see a heavy recruitment campaign around the world. You are going to see more lone wolf situations, she added. We need to make sure we are protected. We need to make sure our cybersecurity is strong, because actors like Russia are going to continue to hack us because we show no signs of willing to fight back. We need to watch China, because I think you are going to see China make a move for Bagram Air Force Base, Haley apprehended. I think they are also making a move in Afghanistan and trying to use Pakistan to get stronger to go against India. So, we have got a lot of issues. The biggest thing he should do is strengthen our allies, strengthen those relationships, modernise our military, and make sure we are prepared for the cyber-crimes and the terrorist crimes that are headed our way, she said in response to a question. Haley slammed Biden for his disastrous withdrawal of US forces from Afghanistan. By the end of that speech that President Biden gave, it was the beginning of the lame duck presidency for Joe Biden, she said. I mean, he has lost the trust and confidence of every member of the military and the military families that Im proud to be a part of. He has lost the trust and confidence of our allies who are now negotiating without us because they dont know why we are doing what were doing, she said. Biden, she alleged, has lost the trust and confidence of the American people. If you look at the fact that the jihadists are celebrating in the streets because America has run out of town and they left them with billions of dollars worth of equipment and ammunition as a housewarming present, she said. You couldnt ask for a more embarrassing, humiliating situation than what we have right now. The world is more definitely a dangerous place. Just because we are out of Afghanistan does not mean this war is over, Haley said.

SIDBI to provide loan to Tamil Nadu govt under new cluster development fund to upgrade MSME clusters

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Credit and Finance for MSMEs: Two weeks after the principal financial institution for MSME financing and development – SIDBI announced its Cluster Development Fund to give a thrust to hard infrastructure support to state governments for MSME cluster development, it has provided the first approval under the fund beginning with the Tamil Nadu government. According to SIDBI, the project-specific However, SIDBI didnt disclose the loan amount and tenure. The thrust shall be laid on clusters in sectors\/subsectors which can directly benefit the MSMEs in the state and to bring them to a level SIDBI shall complement these with its customized direct lending products being channelized in the supported clusters, He added that the bank shall also examine supporting the soft infrastructure issues in select clusters. The issues could be relating to technology, skilling\/upskilling, energy efficiency, market, and credit. Ramann said a pilot has been launched for the same in the Ambattur leather cluster. Subscribe to Financial Express SME newsletter now: We have set up a Cluster Development Fund with the Reserve Bank of India We have also launched the Business Development Services Intervention programme in five clusters that will attend to the soft side of it and we think it can impact 20,000-25,000 MSMEs, Apart from the Ambattur cluster in Chennai, the other four clusters were tourism cluster in Jammu Kashmir, Delhi-NCR innovation cluster; Jodhpur wood furniture cluster, and Sambalpur textile cluster. The expert committee on MSMEs headed by U.K. Sinha in its June 2019 report had recommended SIDBI the use of Priority Sector Shortfall (PSS) funds to create a low-cost lending window for state governments for infrastructure projects in clusters, civil works for rehabilitation of existing industrial estates and setting up of new industrial estates. SIDBI has so far setup Project Management Units (PMUs) in 11 states namely, Assam, Andhra Pradesh, Rajasthan, Gujrat, Haryana, Maharashtra, Delhi, Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand, and Tamil Nadu. In discussion with clusters stakeholders, it will formulate an action plan for two-three years, Singh had said.

Benchmark bond yields rise as crude oil inches higher

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The yield on the 10-year benchmark 6.10%-2031 bonds rose on Monday due to an uptick in crude oil prices and a rise in US Treasury yields. The yield ended at 6.2428%, marginally higher than the previous trading session. Bond dealers expect yields on benchmark bonds to rise in coming days owing to supply pressure and ahead of the Jackson Hole event. 20-6.30% in near term, Brent crude oil prices, which were trading lower last week, rose on Monday, though the market was concerned over the rising covid cases in major oil-importing countries like the US and China. These nations have imposed new restrictions to curb the spread of the Delta variant. By the closing of the Indian bond market, Brent crude oil prices were trading at $67.27 a barrel, which was up $2.09 or 3.21%, for the contract maturing in October. Market participants said the minutes of the August policy reiterated that members were uncertain on growth as well as inflation and hence rates had been kept unchanged with an accommodative stance. Among members, Jayanth Varma voted against the stance. Meanwhile, the US Treasury yields rose on Friday on concerns of rising Covid-19 cases and volatile stock markets. The yield on the 10-year US Treasury note was at 1.26%, 1 basis point higher than the previous close.

Celebrate festivals with caution, second Covid wave not yet over: Centre

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The central government on Thursday said the months of September and October will be crucial in pandemic management and cautioned that festivals should be celebrated in accordance with COVID-19-appropriate behaviour. Addressing a media briefing, Union Health Secretary Rajesh Bhushan reiterated that the country is still in the midst of the second wave. ICMR Director General Balram Bhargava said vaccines are disease modifying and not disease preventing so it is very important to continue the use of masks even after vaccination. Bhushan said, We are still in the midst of the second surge of COVID-19 in our country. The second surge has not yet concluded. It is not over and therefore, we have to maintain all necessary precautions, particularly in light of our experience that after every festival we see a spike. The coming months of September and October are crucial for us because we would be celebrating a few festivals. Thus festivals have to be celebrated with Covid-appropriate behaviour, he added. The government said 41 districts in India were reporting a COVID-19 weekly positivity rate of more than 10 per cent. According to the government, 58.4 per cent of the total COVID-19 cases last week were reported from Kerala. Kerala is the only state reporting over 1 lakh active COVID-19 cases, while four states have 10,000 to 1 lakh active cases and 31 states have less than 10,000 active cases, it said. The government said over 400 evacuees were brought back from Afghanistan so far and that some of them have tested positive for COVID-19. The infected people have been isolated and are being treated. With 46,164 people testing positive for coronavirus infection in a day, Indias total tally of COVID-19 cases has increased to 3,25,58,530, while the active cases rose to 3,33,725, according to the Union Health Ministry data updated on Thursday. The death toll climbed to 4,36,365 with 607 fresh fatalities, according to the data updated at 8 am. The active cases comprise 1.03 per cent of the total infections, while the national COVID-19 recovery rate was recorded at 97.63 per cent, the ministry said.

After Hours: Rajat Vohra, GM, India and South Asia, Reynolds Pens India

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The Job As our target audience is kids and people from artistic fields, it helps us keep our creativity alive. I like to interact with my teams and stakeholders on a daily basis. I also keep a close track on the process, structure and the system. At Reynolds, we maintain a start-up culture, and are open to fresh and creative ideas to best serve our customers. The Weekdays My weekdays are spent in meetings with the internal and external stakeholders. I work closely with the teams to ensure that we are on track and our efforts result in doubling our growth numbers across verticals. Remote working can be tough, and it is essential to create a healthy working environment. I speak to all the teams and take their feedback on a regular basis to help them focus on their mental health. It helps me to be more productive. It The Weekend Weekends are for relaxation and rejuvenation. I like to spend quality time with my family, and play ludo with my kids. I also like to indulge in self-care by travelling, cooking and visiting temples. I feel it The Toys With everything going digital now, right from work to even some of the leisure activities, having my mobile phone and tablet with me at all times is extremely important. However, I keep away from them on weekends for some digital detox. The Logos I love Prada perfumes, and apparel from Brooks Brothers and GANT. Follow us onTwitter,Instagram,LinkedIn,Facebook

Zerodha gets Sebi’s in-principle nod to launch mutual fund biz

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Broking firm Zerodha has received in-principle approval from capital markets regulator Sebi to set up an asset management company, its founder and CEO Nithin Kamath said on Wednesday. I guess now comes the hard part, In February last year, Zerodha had applied for a licence to start mutual fund operations. The brokerage house has joined entities like Samco Securities and Bajaj Finserv that received Sebi The approval came after the Securities and Exchange Board of India (Sebi) had allowed fintech firms to enter the mutual fund business. Besides, companies including Frontline Capital Services, Wizemarkets Analytics, Unifi Capital, Alchemy Capital Management and Helios Capital Management Pte Ltd are also eyeing an entry into the MF space. These companies have already approached Sebi for a mutual fund licence. At present, 44-mutual fund houses manage assets to the tune of over Rs 35 lakh crore.