Is your term plan equipped to keep pace with increasing responsibilities?

Is your term plan equipped to keep pace with increasing responsibilities?

Birla Sun Life Insurance presents term solutions with increasing sum assured at no extra premium

Launches BSLI Protector Plan & BSLI Protector Plus Plan

Mumbai: Birla Sun Life Insurance Company, a joint venture of Aditya Birla Group and Sun Life Financial Inc. has announced the launch of its new term plan offerings – Protector Plans. These plans offer flexibility to customers by giving them the option to increase their sum assured over a period rising out of increasing responsibilities and inflation, at no extra cost. The Protector plan is available in two variants; BSLI Protector Plan and BSLI Protector Plus Plan.

Says Mayank Bathwal, Chief Financial Officer and Head - Institutional Sales, “Over time, an individual’s responsibilities grow and this, coupled with lifestyle improvements, makes one realize the need for increased protection. To ensure that one’s loved ones continue to enjoy the same comforts, even under unforeseen circumstances, there was a need for a plan that could keep pace with changing requirements.”

He further adds “BSLI has repeatedly been able to not just assess consumers’ evolving needs, but also introduce innovative solutions time and again that have set industry benchmarks. Keeping these customer needs in mind for a term plan that can grow with growing responsibilities; BSLI has introduced BSLI Protector Plans that aim to ensure a family’s financial security as per their evolving life cycle needs at affordable cost”

Both plans offer customers the flexibility of opting for a constant or increasing Sum Assured at inception. Customers, who opt for an increase in Sum Assured, have the option of increasing it by 5% or 10% every year, in order to factor in growing needs and responsibilities. Under this facility, on every policy anniversary, the Sum Assured increases by 5% or 10%. 

For added protection, both plans can be enhanced with the following riders:

·         BSLI Accidental death and disability rider UIN: 109C018V01

·         BSLI Critical illness rider UIN: 109C019V01

·         BSLI Surgical care rider UIN: 109C015V01

·         BSLI Hospital care rider UIN: 109C016V01

·         BSLI Waiver of premium rider UIN: 109C017V01

While, blending complete financial protection with affordability, the two plans also offer an additional advantage of lower premium for women.

Key features of the BSLI Protector Plans:

·         Option to increase sum assured at no extra cost

·         Choice of 5 additional riders to enhance your policy protection

·         Flexibility of premium paying frequency: Annual / Semi – Annual / Quarterly / Monthly

·         Income Tax benefits as per prevailing norms under the Income Tax Act, 1961

Additionally, Protector Plus Plan offers the following benefits:

·         Special premium rates for non-smokers

·         Special premium rates for women

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JK Tyre inaugurates Truck Wheels service centre at Nagpur

JK Tyre inaugurates Truck Wheels service centre at Nagpur

~ First One Stop Tyre & Wheel Service Centre in Maharashtra ~

~ JK Tyre plans to set up over 20 such Tyre & Wheel Service Centres in one year ~

Nagpur, July 13, 2011: JK Tyre & Industries Ltd, India’s leading tyre major and the market leader in Truck/Bus Radial tyres, launched its state of the art ‘JK Tyre Truck Wheels Centre’ at Nagpur, Maharashtra.  JK Tyre Truck Wheels would provide one stop solution for the entire tyre & wheel related service needs of Trucks and Buses.

The JK Tyre Truck Wheels centre at Nagpur is spread over an area of around 6000 sq. ft with workshop area, showroom, Training rooms etc. The centre is equipped with state of the art facilities including a computerized Truck tyre Alignment Machine, Wheel balancing machine, Automatic Tyre Changer, Nitrogen Inflator and Truck tyre repair tools and offers end to end tyre-related services for trucks and buses.

It was inaugurated by Dr.Raghupati Singhania, Vice Chairman and Managing Director, JK Tyre & Industries Ltd in the presence of Mr.A.K.Bajoria, President & Director, Mr.A.S.Mehta, Marketing Director and other key officials of the company.

The service provided at JK Tyre Truck Wheels would help consumers reduce maintenance cost and fuel consumption. The modern equipment will also enhance the tyre life. Services like Wheel Alignment and Balancing play a major role in Safety and comfort. Nitrogen inflation is another service which offers a lot of benefits to the users.

Speaking at the inauguration, Dr.Raghupati Singhania, Vice Chairman & Managing Director, JK Tyre & Industries Ltd said “JK Tyre is the pioneer of Radials in the country and is committed towards bringing the best  of products and services. This initiative is another step in providing one stop tyre related services to the customers. With Radialisation increasing rapidly, JK Tyre, as the pioneer and market leader, has been striving hard to provide complete tyre solution to its customers.

Nagpur is one of the biggest trucking hubs in the country. Nagpur is also a major junction for roadways as India's two major national highways (Kanyakumari-Varanasi (NH 7) and Hajira-Kolkota (NH-6)) pass through the city.  Nagpur Fleet owners have been the early adopters of Truck/Bus Radial tyres and have reaped the benefits of Radial technology. Services like Wheel Alignment, Balancing and Nitrogen Inflation will help the customers in reducing their operating costs and get the best out of their tyres.”

Dr.Singhania also added  “ With the rapid progress in the highway, the Radialisation in Commercial Vehicles is bound to grow. JK Tyre is committed to meet the demands of customers in terms of value added service and capacities.JK Tyre has already increased its TBR capacity from 8 lacs to 10 lacs at Mysore Plant.  Further JK Tyre is setting up a new plant in Chennai to meet the requirement of Truck/Bus Radial tyres as well as Car Radial tyres.The new plant will increase JK Tyre’s TBR capacity from the present 10 lacs per annum to 14 lacs per annum”.

Mr.Juzer Amin of MHKS Mohamed Ali (Tyre Division) is the franchisee for the Nagpur centre. Speaking on the occasion, Mr.Juzer Amin said  “I have been associated with JK Tyre for more than 2 decades. I am very happy to be associated with JK Tyre in this prestigious venture. With the Radialisation increasing rapidly, the need for alignement, balancing and other services is bound to increase”. Mr. Mufaddal Amin who is the son of Mr.Juzer Amin would be heading the operations of the centre.

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BIG MAGIC BANEGA CROREPATI

BIG MAGIC BANEGA CROREPATI

Clocks close to 1 crore audiences across the heartland with new prime time shows Lo Kallo Baat, Umar Sharif, BIG Fighting Champion and more…

BIG MAGIC India’s first exclusive channel for the core Hindi heartland from the Reliance Broadcast Network stable, clocks close to 1 crore mark this week (Week 27—TAM ratings) on the back of its fresh prime time shows. With the overwhelming response that the shows received, BIG MAGIC almost doubled the size of the audience from its nearest competition in UP, MP and Bihar.

The new prime time shows like Lo Kallo Baat, featuring funny man Aman Verma and his toli that make an instant connect with the local populace through gags on local news, recognizing local achievers and talent, fun interactions from local hotspots and A grade Bollywood and TV celeb interviews ; ‘Umar Sharif presents Koi hain jo hame hassaye, where the king of comedy from across the border looks for stand up comedians who can make him laugh, BIG Fighting Champion, an international format on mixed martial arts action sports that connects with the law of the fist nature of the hindi hearland amongst others, have made BIG MAGIC the most watched channel among regional channels in the Hindi Heartland within a record breaking time of under 3 months of launch. The channel has overtaken long established channels like Mahuaa TV, Dabaang, Dhamaal, Sahara Samay, Zee News UP, and a host of others. (Refer to table below--Source TAM- Week 27 CS 4+, UP+MP+BIHAR)

The Channel derives huge synergies with RBNL’s leading radio brand – 92.7 BIG FM, the no. 1 radio network in this region, operating 11 Stations in the heartland. This provides an excellent opportunity for brands to integrate on TV and Radio in the region.

With a refreshing programming lineup of Bollywood, Movies, Action sports, Humor and Music, backed by strong distribution and innovative marketing initiatives, the channel has risen straight to the top!

BIG MAGIC is being distributed across all cable operators across the states of UP, MP and Bihar and spread across the likes of DEN, Digicable, WWIL, Hathway, Darsh and Maurya amongst others, reaching approximately 10 mn households in the heartland. BIG MAGIC is also being supported with a high decibel integration plan on 92.7 BIG FM, Outdoor, Mall Activation, play-out seeding in malls, print, local cable, and high penetrating transit media like bus branding, autos and tempo branding.

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A film with social message to be filmed in Madhya Pradesh

A film with social message to be filmed in Madhya Pradesh

Indore, July 2011: Films have always been admired as the most common source of entertainment. Perhaps, no one could have escaped from viewing films. Film making is also termed as the most common industry, all over the world. Hollywood and Bollywood are now the ambassadors of Europe & India. Films are also considered as the best mode of entertainment only, but it is not so. If we look at the History of Indian films only, we find that a number of films have set landmarks in showcasing message contained therein. Mother India, Do Beegha Jameen, Jagte Raho are a few films, who have been successful in giving useful messages. Films made by Satyajeet Ray have begged lot of international awards & raised glory of our country. 

We have seen that upto 80s, many a films used to celebrate 100days, Silver jubilee, Golden jubilee, but these incidents are not seen, now a days. Hardly a few films click box-office nowadays, and most of the current films, run for few weeks only. The most common reason of failure of today’s films is lack of incorporation of powerful subjects. Only a few film makers take educational subjects in their films and there after all depends upon entire team linked with production of films.

Ms. Rashmi Verma, has close relation with Madhya Pradesh. She has been in association of making films, TV serials for a pretty long time. She is an actor, writer, producer and model. She has acted in number of films, and since then, she has been planning to make a film, on a subject, focusing upon society. She was in search of a subject and ultimately she got the idea. She immediately started the paper work and after completing the same, she narrated her story to the ace film writer, Imtiaz Hussain, who was impressed by theme of story. Rashmi requested him to develop the story and Hussain agreed to do so. The Story writing is in progress and Rashmi is thrilled to imagine the creation of her dream on celluloid.

The story of film revolves around a lady. Who has two sons. The younger one incidentally comes in association of bad guys, and the teenager becomes addict of drugs, theft & all bad habits. Poor mother, who is already a sufferer of separation from her husband, is shocked to see her son, whose talks of bad habits have spread in society, School & no one likes him. No student in his school likes to sit beside him. How her mother faces the situation & struggles to bring his bad son on right way, will be in interesting to see in the film.

“No mother will like her son to be called as drunkard or thief. She always takes care of her all children but a little carelessness may lead to misdirection of your ward, and ultimately the entire family is sufferer”, Rashmi Verma expressed her views on the subject, chose for the film.

“Since I do not want to leave a single stone unturned to convert my dream in the fact, I have selected gems of our film industry for my film. The famous Director Vimal Kumar has been shouldered with the responsibilities of direction, who has many successful films to his credit, like Agar Tum Na Hote, Ghar Sansar, Dariya Dil, Swarg Yahan Narak Yahan and Tarazoo.

The story & script will be penned by Imtiaz Hussain, known for his films like Ghulame-E-Mustafa, Astitwa, Parinda and Vastaw.

Though the entire cast of film is yet to be finalized, I have two names for the role of mother, Tabboo & Vidya Balan. The film is likely to go on floors. Within six months, and we plan to release the same by midyear of 2012”. Rashmi added.

Since Rashmi is incidentally belonging to Madhya Pradesh, she has decided to shoot the entire film in our state only. She is approaching M.P. Government for their support at the time of shooting of the film, at selected locations she is confident to receive support of MP Govt. & looks ahead to convert her dream into reality. 

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Force India Formula One Team Academy extends the eligibility for ‘One From A Billion Hunt’ on popular demand

Force India Formula One Team Academy extends the eligibility for ‘One From A Billion Hunt’ on popular demand

Mumbai: The Force India Formula One Team Academy today announced that based on requests from a number of talented karting enthusiasts, it had extended the age group for participation in the One From A Billion Hunt via awild card route. While the One From a Billion Hunt was initially open to those in the age group of 14 to 17 years, in response to a number of requests received from F1 hopefuls, the ambit of the Hunt has been widened by modifying the upper and lower limits of the eligible age groups. Contenders between 12–14 years of age and  between 17-19 years of age will now get a chance to  qualify for the National Finals via a special wild card.

The Wild Card Selection Round will be held at Kart Cave, Lower Tank Bund Road, Hyderabad from 3rd – 7th August 2011. Contenders for the wild card entry in both these age groups will need to better the lap time of 25.376 seconds which is the time set by the 14^th fastest finalist from the recently concluded Hyderabad round of the regional trials. One winner from each of the above age groups will be selected as a wild card entry and will go on to the National Finals later this year.

Registration for the Wild Card Selection Round will be open from 1st July to 31st July on the One From A Billion Hunt website, www.onefromabillion.com

Sharing his perspective on the rationale behind widening the ambit of the One from a Billion Hunt, Dr. Vijay Mallya, Chairman & Team Principal, Force India Formula One Team said, “I personally received requests and representations from a large number of parents and F1 hopefuls asking if we could consider including age groups somewhat younger and older than what we had originally envisaged in our programme so that more aspirants could benefit from the historic initiative undertaken by the recently set-up Force India F1 Team Academy. Not including them in the on-going Hunt would have meant budding racing talent from India would have had to wait for another two years. With a view to broad-basing the programme in response to popular demand, we have tweaked the age-limits of the eligible categories for the Hunt and we hope that more talented young Indians will take advantage of this opportunity and give it their best shot. Two talented young Indians from the expanded age groups will be selected as wild card entries and will go on to join the 98 other talented young Indians in the National Finals of the Hunt. I wish the contenders for the wild card entries all the very best!”

The age groups eligible for the Wild Card Selection Round are:

·         for 12 - 14 years (born on or after 1st January 1998 to born on or before 31st December 1999)

·         17 - 19 years  (born on or after 1st January 1992 to born on or before 31st December 1993)

·         The Wild Card Selection Round will be open to eligible persons of Indian Origin including NRIs and PIOs.

Commenting on the announcement of the expansion of the eligible age group, Mr. Raymond Wong, CEO, ExxonMobil Lubricants Pvt. Ltd said, “We have received an overwhelming response from motorsports enthusiasts for the ‘One from a Billion Hunt’ trials. Mobil 1 and Force India Formula One Team Academy are pleased to provide aspiring Formula 1 drivers across India yet another opportunity to be part of this country-wide search, and a chance to be part of India’s Formula 1 team. The Wild Card Selection Round will be held in Hyderabad.”

Post the selection of the wild card entries, the next stages of the One From A Billion Hunt will be  as follows:

·         National Final – 100 finalists (14 from each of the seven cities and two wild card entries) will compete against each other in September 2011 to win a place among 10 finalists who then move on to the next level of the programme.

o   The driver hunt is proposed to be held every two years

·   Silverstone Finale   -

o     Ten finalists from the National Final will go on to do a week-long intensive stint at Silverstone, UK comprising sessions on driver tuition on Dmax Karts, a day at the Porsche Human Performance Centre to assess and develop fitness for motorsports, media training with Goodman Media, two full days at the Silverstone F1 circuit with sessions on safety, car control training, driver assessment, and race procedure briefing. The ten selected drivers will complete their Silverstone experience with a race in Formula Silverstone cars.  At the end of the intensive hands-on week, an expert panel will pick three winners on the basis of a holistic assessment of their multiple capabilities and proficiency in requisite areas. The three winners will be announced in India around the time of the Grand Prix of India in October 2011.

·   Future Champions Programme

o   The  three  winners of the Silverstone Finale  will be groomed as follows in 2012 and beyond:-

·         The winner will be put through a full season of racing in a competitive championship in the United Kingdom.

·         The first runner up will go on to do a full season of racing in a competitive championship in India.

·         The second runner up will go on to receive special racing tuitions in an Asian racing school

The Academy will fully support the winner over the next three years and a career path will be drawn out, depending on the progress made in 2012. The intent is to groom the winner through various stages leading up to a point where the winner is qualified and ready to apply for a super license from the FIA to drive in Formula 1.

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