The Hyderabad Golf course, a project initiated by Telangana Tourism Development Corporation and Hyderabad Golf Association has been awarded the National tourism award as the “BEST TOURISM FRIENDLY GOLF COURSE 2018-19”. The award was given away by Shri Jagdeep Dhankar Vice Presidentof India and was received by Mr. V. Srinivas Goud, Minister for Tourism, Government of Telangana & Mr. T. Ajay Kumar Reddy, Captain of the Hyderabad Golf Association in a ceremony held on September 27 th 2022 at Vigyan Bhavan, New Delhi. This is the third time that the Hyderabad Golf Association has received this prestigious award. The Hyderabad Golf course a project initiated by the Telangana Tourism Development Corporation and the Hyderabad Golf Association (HGA) has set up an International standard golf course and a Golf academy for development of Golf. HGA was formed with the primary objects of encouraging, promoting and developing the game of golf in Telangana. Situated at the historic Golconda fort, it is one of the finest heritage golf courses in the world. HGA is also a proud recipient of the industry award as “BEST HETITAGE GOLF COURSE” award in 2016.
Hyderabad Golf course is one of the unique golf courses in the world set in the heritage precincts of Golconda. A Very well-manicured and maintained eco-friendly18 hole, par 71, 6225 yards golf course with aflood lit driving range & practice greens is a destination for domestic and international tourists and a venue for major national & international golf tournaments.Golf course is open to everyone interested in golf and is a cradle for future champions and a destination for international golf events. It is a significant addition to the social infrastructure, having put Hyderabad on the international golfing map. On receiving the award, Mr. T. Ajay Kumar Reddy, Captain – The Hyderabad Golf Association said, “It is truly a proud moment not only for the Hyderabad Golf Association but also for the State of Telangana for receiving this recognition. It has been our vision to not only promote the game of golf but also to give a major impetus to Hyderabad on the International Golf Tourism Map. The fact that the golf course has become one
Wonderla Holidays Ltd, India’s largest amusement park chain is hosting “Dandiya Night” at Wonderla Hyderabad on October 01, 2022. The event is scheduled to start at 7:30 PM. To add on to the festive spirit of Navratri at the Hyderabad Park, DJ Jasmeet is playing at the event. After grooving to the beats of Garba and live dhol, one can gorge on delicacies at the food court being set up at the event.
Wonderla has been undertaking such initiatives to celebrate Indian festivals and culture and provide its visitors with experiential activities besides the exhilarating activities at the park. The event ticket for Dandiya Night is priced at Rs 699 per person. Besides, Wonderla has also announced various other attractive packages for people planning to come as a group for the event and park combo also.
US-headquartered technology company Unravel Data, the first DataOps Observability platform built to meet the needs of modern data teams, today announced the opening of its Hyderabad office. The office is located in Hitech City and is Unravel’s second office in India after Bangalore. Unravel Data also said it plans to hire 60 employees over the next year across its Hyderabad and Bangalore offices to strengthen its India-base.
The Hyderabad office will house teams across functions like data science, site reliability engineering, and customer success. Unravel Data said it aims to attract the rich technology talent in Hyderabad and nearby cities in Telangana and Andhra Pradesh to support its growth plans. The company will be looking at candidates proficient in Big Data, DevOps, and Artificial Intelligence (AI). The new office was inaugurated by Unravel Data’s co-founder and CTO Dr. Shivnath Babu, and the company’s VP of Engineering Operations, Giriraj Bagdi.
“Hyderabad not only houses data teams for many of our customers and partners around the world, but also has an abundance of technology talent, making it the natural choice for our second office location in India. We are confident that our team in India will play a critical role in Unravel Data’s future growth as we prepare to bring the advantages of DataOps Observability to more data-driven enterprises around the world. We have immense belief in the capabilities of local technology talent and are looking forward to building a team of innovators across our offices in India,” Dr. Shivnath Babu said.
Unravel said it has grown its team by more than 15 people in Hyderabad in under a year. “We are now looking to continue our momentum and hire and build a diverse team by harnessing the local talent in the months to come,” Giriraj Bagdi said.
Unravel Data’s technology applies AI for monitoring and management of Big Data applications, helping modern, data-driven enterprises optimize the performance and cost of their applications. The company’s DataOps Observability Platform provides data teams with the actionable recommendations they need to turn data into insights and deliver new innovations to market. Customers who have deployed Unravel have been able to double productivity of data teams, ensure data applications run on time, while being able to scale cost efficiently on the cloud.
Founded by Big Data and artificial intelligence pioneers Kunal Agarwal and Dr. Shivnath Babu, Unravel Data was born from the realization that the exponential growth of data in the cloud will require artificial intelligence to optimize the data pipelines powering modern enterprises.
Numerous Fortune 100 companies, including two of the top five global pharmaceutical companies and three of the top 10 financial institutions in the world, rely on Unravel Data to gain unprecedented visibility across their data stacks, proactively troubleshoot and optimize their data workloads, and define guardrails to govern costs and improve predictability.
Headquartered in Palo Alto, California, Unravel Data employs more than 100 people in four offices across the US, India, and Europe.
HappyLocate, India’s first tech-based one-stop relocation platform, today announced the launch of its relocation app. With this announcement, the company further plans to strengthen its services across metros, including Bangalore, Chennai, Pune, Hyderabad, Kolkata, and Ahmedabad by making shifting hassle-free by offering 99% damage-free and delay-free relocation services.
The newly launched app will enable the users to book the relocation services on HappyLocate within 30 seconds, and further connect them with different moving companies and get multiple quotes instantly. The customers would also be able to track their shipments on a real-time basis and can choose their packaging material as per their preferences and requirements. The app will further enable its customers to send their videos using the video survey feature and get an estimate for a relocation service instantly. The app is free to use and can be downloaded on androids and iOS.
Speaking on the development, Ajay Tiwari CEO of HappyLocate,“In the last two years, more than 70% of our relocation services have been booked by corporates and this has helped us increase our relocation requests by 38%. Our R&D team has been actively studying the challenges that people and businesses face during relocations and what are the possible solutions that can help them address these challenges. Keeping this in mind, we have decided to strengthen our services across metros by ensuring that processes, systems, and operations in these cities are fully efficient. We are hopeful that in the next 6 months, we would be able to increase our damage-free move from 96% to 99% and delay-free relocation percentage from 95% to 99%.”
Being a one-its-kind relocation platform, HappyLocate offers a range of services including packing, loading, moving, unloading, vehicle relocation, office shifting, pet shifting, and house shifting to businesses and individuals. Since its inception, the company has fulfilled more than 1 lakh relocation requests to date and now aims to serve 1 lakh more relocation requests in the coming year. It has 100+ marquee clients and has witnessed a 300% overall growth and has a network of over 650+ verified movers. The company currently has 150 employees and has a presence in 8 cities in India.
Madhapur happens to be the most road accident-prone area in Hyderabad with the highest number of such mishaps. Boddupal, AS Rao Nagar, Kothagudda,Nizampet are other areas which have more or less the same percentage of accidents in the biryani capital of India. These facts were unveiled by ACKO, India’s leading tech-first insurance provider today in its bi-annual edition of ACKO Accident Index 2022.
The Index, which is a report detailing accident trends revealed Madhapura recordedhighest accidental rate at15%, while Boddupal, AS Rao Nagar, Kothagudda all ranged under 10%. The reasons behind the mishaps were mostly ‘other drivers’, animal crossings,rash driving, potholes, and drunk driving were the other reasons.
Another interesting trend brought out by Index was animals posing as a major reason for road accidents. Dogs, cows and surprisingly rats were also a major cause of accidents.
Animesh Das, Senior Director – Motor Underwriting, ACKO, said: “While we often blame bad roads for accidents, the report shows that otherwise. Road accidents and fatalities that go along with it are preventable and can be predicted if proven countermeasures are applied. This Accident Index is just a helping hand for our policy makers and administrators, so that they can place measures across the most accident-prone locations in India that will further help regulate the traffic and considerably reduce accidents.”
ACKO is India’s leading Insurtech company serving over 70+ Mn unique customers. This first-of-its-kind report is powered by ACKO’s database and is a definitive indicator of accident trends including the leading causes based on parameters like infrastructure, drunk driving, rash driving, animals crossing the streets and other drivers. The Index is meticulously prepared by looking at multiple data points to understand how major Indian metros drive.
Other metro details:
Bengaluru:Bengaluru fared the best, emerging as the least accident-prone city with a recorded accident rate of 16%. The bulk of accidents were recorded in Bommanahalli, which registered almost 9% of accidents while Kalyan Nagar registered close to 8% of accidents. The bulk of accidents in Bengaluru have occurred on a 50km-stretch spanning from Bannerghatta to Hoodi, which also faces heavy logjams.
Chennai: Most of the accidents in the city were recorded in the traffic heavy, industrial belts of Guindy that registered close to 19% of accidents while Ambattur recorded close to 14% of accidents while Poonamallee had 13% of accidents.Overall, Chennai registered an accident rate of 18.6 %.
Delhi: Sector 12 of Noida emerged as the most accident-prone area in the Delhi NCR region and accounted for 9% of the accidents. A major cause of the mishaps was ‘other drivers’ followed by animal crossings, potholes, rash driving, and drunk driving. Overall, Delhi registered an accident rate of 20.3%.
Mumbai: Mumbai registered an accident rate of 18.2% where Ghatkopar (West) was revealed as the most accident-prone area accounting for 5% of the accidents. The reasons for these mishaps are similar to those in Delhi.
ACKO has created this report to shed light on some of the most common reasons for accidents and to help car owners in India to drive better.
The data in this report is from the ACKO database. Certain third-party data sources have been used as and where necessary.
Konica Minolta India, a leading name in providing digital transformation solutions & services, recently participated in the CFO Engage (Hyderabad chapter).The event focused on the challenges faced by the industry’s CFOs, like navigating through thedisruptions in the global supply chain and creating a strong business value by bringing governance and others. The 15th edition of the event also touched upon the benefits of rapid advancement of technology and factors that can help to attract and retain talent.
Commenting on the occasion, Mr. Kuldeep Malhotra, Deputy Managing Director, Konica Minolta Business Solutions India Pvt ltd said, “Important changes are taking place in the role of financial planning and analysis and much revolves around digitalisation. We, as industry leaders, need to decide whether we want to focus on driving digitisation in our own function, or we want to become digital champions for the whole organisation, or we want to achieve both. Of course, while doing so, we have to keep a check on the cost and benefits of digital use cases.” The objective of this year’s event was to enable organisations to focus on building trust-based, resilient cultures that can pivot at the speed of change prevalent in the current time. The CFO’s role is continuously evolving—widening in scope, requiring new capabilities, and demanding greater collaboration with C-suite peers. Keeping the same in view, Mr. Priyangshu Das – General Manager (Enterprise Sales), contributed to the event and presented on “Transforming Digitally Progressing Together: Rethink Digitally”.
Konica Minolta witnessed participation from various industries like BFSI, Pharma, Infra, FMCG, Startup, Financial consultants. Konica Minolta representatives were able to discuss with a number of CFOs & Panellists during the event. CFO Engage is a finance conference organised by Programic Asia Pvt Ltd. exclusively for chief financial officers from India’s largest and most influential companies. Founded in 2014, the company maintains the highest standards of quality and service in research, technology and product development.
Amazon Pay announced onboarding of 18,000 merchants across India through its ‘Amazon Pay Smart Stores’ program. In addition to this, more than 800 local stores in Telangana signed up under this program. Amazon Pay Smart Store is an innovative offline shopping experience which enables offline stores to be discovered by customers and improves instore sales by offering best in class affordability propositions across the widest array of payment options. It strengthens Amazon Pay’s endeavor to digitally empower offline Small and Medium Businesses (SMBs), retailers and micro merchants and unlocks new growth opportunities for them. Furthermore, more than 4000 Amazon Pay Smart Stores are from the Southern states of India.
Commenting on the initiative, Girish Krishnan – Director, Rewards and Merchant Services, Amazon Pay India, said, “We are committed to enable merchants and customers with easy access to credit, reduce friction in their everyday transactions and maximize their savings. Amazon Pay will continue to offer innovative solutions to customers choosing to shop offline including better discoverability of nearby stores, affordability propositions like No Cost EMIs, bank discounts, value added services such as insurance, warranty and much more.”
Merchants registered on the Smart Store Program witness a consistent incremental growth in their overall sales. The Amazon Pay Smart Stores Program is expanding in multiple cities across India, including Tamil Nadu, Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka, and Telangana. In the past one year, the program has seen an 72% increase in sign-ups from SMBs dealing in mobiles, electronics, laptops, large appliances, clothing, shoes, grocery, and kitchen. Customers can also shop across 1000-1500 electronics stores in Hyderabad, Warangal, Nizamabad, Nalgonda, Khammam, Visakhapatnam, Vijayawada, Guntur, Nellore, Tirupathi, Kurnool, and Rajamundry, (Andhra Pradesh & Telangana) using the Smart Stores experience.
Amazon Pay Smart Stores Program was started in 2020 to facilitate improvements in offline shopping experience to provide seamless credit to offline shoppers, improve discoverability for offline stores and offer various affordability propositions for customers. Once inside a Smart Store, customers can simply scan the store’s QR code using the Amazon app to explore the products available within the store. They can also choose to pay by their preferred method including UPI, Amazon Pay balance, Credit or Debit cards; along with flexible EMI options and a wide range of Bank offers.
“We have been using Amazon Pay since 2020, Customers are happy to choose Amazon Pay as their payment mode since payments made with it is quicker and more convenient, and consumers love the instant cashback incentives. With the Amazon Pay ICICI Bank card, we were able to give our customers much better deals as they get unlimited 2% cashback. Customers primarily choose to pay with Amazon Pay in-store and we now have daily at least 10+ transactions through Amazon Pay,” says, Vasudev, Store Owner Krithika enterprises, Hyderabad.
The program provides merchants across India a unique opportunity to expand their business through the following value propositions:
· Provide the widest payment Instrument choice: Amazon Pay Smart Stores enable merchants to offer the entire suite of contactless payment options including UPI, net banking, Amazon Pay balance: Money (PPI), credit, and debit cards, without investing in a separate point of sale device
· Offer easy credit and make it affordable to customers: Customers can get easy credit at Smart Stores by using the EMI option with eligible bank credit cards or debit cards. With the Amazon Pay ICICI Bank credit card, customers get an always on, unlimited 2% cashback in all offline stores. With Amazon Pay Later, customers can instantly get a credit line at the store and pay for the transaction
· Widest range of offers sourced from our partners: Amazon Pay has partnered with major banks and financial institutions in the country to bring the best payment offers to customers shopping in offline stores, thereby helping them to maximize their savings. Further, merchants may offer reward coupons to attract new customers and increase customer conversion at the store through attractive incentives. These rewards and incentives help increase footfalls and build customer loyalty in offline stores.
· Drive more sales from Amazon Customers: With Smart Store Program, merchants can easily set up a store page with their logo and promote themselves to over 100M customers who are able to discover this storefront on their Amazon app. The enhanced discoverability drives more footfalls and sales for offline stores. While at the store, customers can read reviews, evaluate the best offers for each product transparently and also easily avail add-on services like insurance and warranty.
Amazon Pay Smart Stores program has onboarded thousands of local shops across the country. In addition, several top brands, including OPPO, Lenovo, HP, Xiaomi, Samsung, Prestige, USHA, ASUS, More, Pepe Jeans, CCD, Barista, Miniso, Puma have already partnered with Amazon Pay to offer customers the best value and in-store purchasing experience through the program. By joining the Amazon Pay Smart stores program offline shops now can offer an assisted in-store shopping experience to customers, along with the best bank and brands offers as well as easy credit through Amazon Pay, making it a win-win proposition.
Learn about and locate your nearest Amazon Pay Smart store here.
Mirchi, India’s no. 1 city-centric music and entertainment company, launched the second season for one of its most loved properties – Hasana Zaroori Hai. Through ‘Hasana Zaroori Hai’ Mirchi taps the potential of the steadily growing comedy circuit in Hyderabad by providing a platform for people to showcase their talent. Tejomayi, a mother of a 7-year-old, a teacher, and an active member of the local open mic groups, won the ultimate title of ‘Hasana Zaroori Hai Season 2.’ The winner was presented with an exclusive opportunity to host Mirchi 95’s evening radio show for an entire day and make the listeners of Hyderabad smile.
Kick starting this season, Mirchi invited people from all walks of life to participate by sharing videos of their comedy acts via radio and digital channels. Mirchi received a lot of hilarious entries which were then shortlisted by Mirchi RJ Shadab, a household name, known for his eccentric and quirky evening show – Nakko Shadab. Through multiple rounds of elimination 3 participants entered the finale- Vikas aka Frustrated Hyderabadi, Kashish Aneja, and Tejomayi. The shortlisted participants were mentored by Mirchi RJ Shadab and other famous comics of Hyderabad, who helped the participants with their comic approach, timing, writing, and stage presence. After three days of rigorous mentoring, the finalists were given a chance to perform their final sets in the Mirchi studio, which was broadcasted on Instagram Live. The chucklesome sets of the comics created a laughter riot amongst those who joined the session. Tejomayi’s excellent comic timing and punch lines received the highest scores and voting from Mirchi RJ Shadab and the other mentors resulting in her winning the show’s title. Moreover, the city’s favorite comedian Rajasekha Mamidana who was also one of the mentors has given her the opportunity to also do the opening act for his next show.
Commenting on this initiative, M N Hussain (Business Director- AP, Telangana & Karnataka) ENIL, Mirchi said, “We are delighted to have brought back one of our most loved properties— Hasana Zaroori Hai. Through ‘Hasana Zaroori Hai’ we aim to scout the new comics in Hyderabad and bring them together to help them refine their skills and perform for the people of Hyderabad. We are elated to witness such a wonderful response from our audiences for this season. We hope to continue activating more such fun-filled, entertainment-packed properties for our consumers.”
Tune into Mirchi 95 on Friday, the 19th of August to listen to Tejomayi host their first-ever radio show.
Global travel technology company, OYO, is spread across 35+ countries with the largest hotel footprint in its headquarters – India. Given the platform’s vast presence across the country, it is easy to spot an OYO almost everywhere. But have you ever wondered which of these takes the top spot as the most popular OYO? Today, in a first, the company unveils its most booked OYOs across Hyderabad. OYO’s data analysis reveals Hyderabad as the third most booked city in India, following Delhi NCR and Bangalore.
As per the booking analysis, OYO 9405 Hotel Stay Home and Silverkey Executive stays 28060, Gachibowli, tops charts as the platform’s most booked OYO in Hyderabad. These properties rank 7th and 8th respectively on OYO’s Top 10 Most Booked OYOs list across India. Both the properties are located at Gachibowli, a significant IT hub in Hyderabad located approximately 5 km from Hi-Tech City and known to house multiple technology and IT companies.
With nearly 20 hotels, a majority of OYOs in the top 50 list are located near important transit hubs and key corporate complexes, demonstrating high consumer demand for properties that are centrally located near commercial centers with easy accessibility to transport. This is followed by a high demand for hotels surrounded by nature and lush green views among leisure travellers.
The high demand for OYOs around key transit hubs can be attributed to the platform’s effort to offer affordable, hygienic stays having important amenities such as air-conditioning, pleasant ambience, fast net connectivity with easy accessibility and flexibility in modification of bookings in case of any last-minute changes.
Additionally, as per OYO’s data, over 10% of the Top 50 properties maintained an occupancy rate of 100% or above in June 2022, the period for which this ranking has been compiled. Interestingly, nearly 24 of the Top 50 most booked hotels are OYO Townhouses, the platform’s mid-premium stay offering.
Location-based most booked OYOs
Another interesting insight is that stays near hospitals have the highest average occupancy rates, suggesting high demand from the patient’s caretakers, visitors and medical staff. High bookings are also visible near key transit hotspots such as railway stations and metros. As air travel bounced back strongly over the past quarter, demand for hotels near the airport also reflected a healthy jump in demand, with Delhi witnessing the highest demand near its Indira Gandhi International Airport in June 2022. Besides Delhi, Jaipur, Mumbai, Lucknow and Surat are the top 5 cities witnessing strong booking uplift in airport proximity hotels in May – June 2022. As per OYO’s data analysis, the Hinjewadi Rajiv Gandhi Infotech Park in Pune emerged as the top commercial hub for highest aggregate OYO bookings. Among transit hubs, OYO witnessed the highest demand at Vaishali Metro Station.
Commenting on OYO’s effort to provide affordable stays for consumers across various segments, Shreerang Godbole, SVP – Product & Chief Service Officer said,“Wherever we go, it’s easy to spot the red OYO logo along the streets of India, be it at leisure destinations, pilgrimage sites, transit hubs or commercial complexes. Such ubiquitous presence across the country allows us to democratize travel for all Indians, whatever their travel intent might be, and opens up vast opportunities for us to provide suitable and quality stays for a wider consumer segment, even at short notice. Our most booked OYO’s list is a good proxy for the location types that see heavy bookings, – be it visiting a loved one at a nearby hospital, staying back at a hotel near your kid’s university, or even heading out on vacations. We hope that with our platform, we continue to serve the requirements of all traveller types who choose to stay with us. To further empower consumers with the power of decision-making around travel, we have also rolled out features such as ‘Pay at hotel’ and flexible booking modifications.”
