AZIMUTH CELEBRATED THE INTERNATIONAL WOMEN’S DAY

Introduction:

The 100th International Women’s Day that dawned on 08 March 2010 saw much activity, excitement and fun at Azimuth. The efforts taken by the Azi Events Management Team to ensure a memorable centenary of the International Women’s Day paid off in style with all the members especially the ladies of the Azi Family taking back home wonderful memories of the day.

The day was packed with interesting events. The idea behind the Azimuth International Women’s Day Celebration was to show our appreciation to women & actively demonstrate our commitment to uphold the rights and privileges of womanhood. It is but natural that Azimuth that has 65% of its workforce as ladies, should do so.

The events planned for the day were:
- Azimuth Intercollegiate English Essay Competition for Women
- Cultural Program

Azimuth Intercollegiate English Essay Competition for Women:

In an initiative to promote English amongst the local student community an Intercollegiate English Essay Competition for Women from arts & science colleges in Pondicherry was held as a special event to mark the International Women’s Day.




Eighty students from ten colleges, namely Achariya Arts & Science College, Aravindar Arts & Science College, Bharathidasan Govt.College for Women, Idyaya College of Arts & Science for Women, Immaculate College for Women, Tagore Government Arts College, Indira Gandhi College of Arts & Science, Mother Theresa Institute of Health Science, Pope John Paul II College of Education & Saradha Gangadharan Arts & Science College participated enthusiastically.

The first prize was bagged by Ms.K Sindhu of Acharia. She took home a cash prize of Rs.2000. The second prize was bagged by Ms.A Indhumathi of Pope John Paul who also won a cash award of Rs.1000. The third prize went to Ms. Harini of Mother Theresa. All the participants were awarded participation certificates.

A Press meet was held to cover the event.

The Chief Guest of Honor for the event Mrs. T. Nikila Rani - Managing Director – SureSoft Systems Pvt. Ltd. distributed the prizes and encouraged the participants with an inspiring speech.
Mrs. Chitra Gopinath – Operations Manager presented the vote of thanks.





AZIMUTH CULTURAL PROGRAM:

The Azimuth cultural program held for the first time in the air-conditioned presentation hall of the Company kept the electrified air from superheating. The hall was packed with staff and trainees of the Azimuth and late comers had to cool their heels standing.





The festive cultural program kicked off in the afternoon with classic Bharatanatyam vying with heart pulsing hip hop & Chennai petta rap to win the hearts of the foot-tapping groovy audience.
Melodious songsters, sagacious speakers & rib-tickling comedians, kept one & all rooted to the edge of their seats exercising their vocal chords, hands & tear glands in joy.

The fun-filled evening came to an end with the awards ceremony where the proud winners & runners up of the Azi Shuttle Badminton Tournament Singles, Doubles, & Mixed Doubles events were given prizes for winning their respective events.

Mrs. Chitra Gopinath, Operations Manager had the last say in expressing her happiness and thankfulness to the event organizers on the successful celebration of the centenary of the International Women’s Day.

Retweet on Twitter

As we all know, Twitter is at its acme among the other micro blogging sites. It allows the user to send and read text-based messages with a character limit of 140; thereby it serves as “SMS of the Internet”. Since its inception in 2006, Twitter has attained a massive growth and notability among the Internet users. Services like Twitter show the power of communication at a rapid pace. So to say, even a step ahead of blogs in delivering information in seconds. It is a nice application to meet like-minded people and to talk one to one.

This is one of the new applications introduced by Twitter. This blog speaks on how to retweet on Twitter? The retweet (or “RT”) allows Twitter users to share the best links and tweets they find from the people they are following. They can copy and paste the original tweet and send it out. Users usually put “RT” plus the tweet originator’s username at the beginning of the tweet to give credit to the original person. Here’s an example:



The advantage of Retweet is that the most popular retweets tend to reflect the favourite articles and most important stories of the entire Twitter community. This can be great if you want to find important articles, read useful blog posts, or when trying to track any emerging trends.

Azimuth participated in a Job Fair

Azimuth participated in a Job Fair that was organized by the Labor Department of Pondicherry, in the premises of Vivekanandha High School on 10th and 11th of October 2009. Azimuth marked its presence amongst a considerable number of premium companies participating in the event. Azimuth took part in the job fair with a motive of highlighting employment opportunities and recruiting talent for the field of Medical Transcription. A screening test was conducted that was based on English aptitude. A total of 40 candidates were short listed for the training cum employment program in Azimuth.

The selected candidates will be enrolled as trainees in the state-of-the art Azimuth Academy, a subsidiary of Azimuth that would mould them towards becoming medical transcription professionals benefiting both, the candidates and the industry.
Team Azimuth congratulates the candidates who made it to the training warding off stiff competition.!!

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Obama's healthcare plan may help Indian IT players

Obama’s stimulus plan proposes to allocate $150 billion to healthcare. Of this, nearly $20 billion is proposed for healthcare IT alone, most of which is expected to spent on Electronic Health Records (EHR). This allocation, as part of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, is opening up the healthcare IT market like never before. It is bringing in a host of opportunities for EHR vendors, healthcare IT service providers and hospital systems.

If the American Recovery and Reinvestment plan as proposed by Obama goes live, it will help hospitals maintain a digital record of the patients. If a patient decides to change his/her healthcare provider, the hospital can easily share the EHR with the next healthcare provider, thus ensuring portability for the EHRs

British Novelist Hilary Mantel wins the 2009 Man Booker Prize!!

Last year the Indian writer Mr. Aravind Adiga made his way winning the most prestigious “Man Booker Prize” and brought glory to our country. India has got well acknowledged writers like Salman Rushdie, Aruntati Roy, Kiren Desai and V.S. Naipaul who had won the title before. Two authors from India were nominated Mahasweta Devi and V.S. Naipaul however this year shortlist didn’t carry any Indian authors. British Writer Hilary Mantel has been named the winner of 2009 Man Booker Prize for his novel ‘Wolf Hall’. The author has contributed a historical novel. For more details follow the link

http://www.merinews.com/article/british-novelist-hilary-mantel-wins-2009-man-booker-prize/15785721.shtml

Twitter's new application "Lists"

Twitter is a micro-blogging site, which is earning a good prominence nowadays among business people, individuals, journalists or anyone for that matter who wants to update their ideas or views in no time. It’s one of the best applications of new media that can by exploited by anyone. The salient feature of Twitter is that, it acts both as a social networking site and blogging service. Twitter has added a new feature called “Lists” in its applications. List is more like a community or group where people join to share similar interest. The following link will give you more information on this new Twitter Application.


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