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Coffee Day announces Young Achievers’ Scholarship programme
BANGALORE: In order to attract and reward excellence in academics among outstanding students from all over the country, Amber Valley Residential School, (AVRS) Chikmaglur, in association with Café Coffee Day, has announced the institution of the annual Café Coffee DayYoung Achievers Scholarship Programme.
The programme will sponsor the full annual tuition and boarding fees of Rs 100,000 per year for 20 students for three years. Café Coffee Day, the sponsor of this programme, is facilitating applications to the ‘Young Achievers’ Scholarship Programme’ from 75 of its cafés in Bangalore, Hyderabad, Chennai, Mumbai, New Delhi and Kolkata till 31 March 2005.
The message is being communicated through posters at these outlets and forms will be available at the café counters. The forms can be filled and sent directly to Amber Valley Residential School. More
information and Admission Forms can also be downloaded from the school website www.ambervalleyschool.org.
Salient features of the programme include a scholarship upto Rs 100,000 per student covering tution fees, boarding and lodging for three consecutive years for study in Grades 6, 7, 8 and residing at the school. Students will chosen on the basis of their display proficiency in general knowledge, English language capability and mathematics.
Student must have a good academic record for the past three years. Those with extra curricular interests will be favoured. Sponsorship awardees will be expected to complete their education right upto 12th grade at AVRS. The 20 selected students will have to maintain academic consistency for the three years.
AVRS is a nationally benchmarked co-educational boarding school that provides a high standard of education at a reasonable price through a well patterned holistic education system framed by experts in domestic and international education.
MUMBAI: In India’s fast-moving payments race, Visa has just swiped in a new leader. The company has named Suresh Sethi as its India country head, marking a key leadership shift as it sharpens its focus on digital payments growth in the market. Sethi steps into the role following his recent exit from Protean eGov Technologies, where he served as chief executive officer. He succeeds Sandeep Ghosh, who has moved on after more than four years at Visa to pursue an external opportunity.
The appointment comes at a time when Visa is doubling down on its expansion strategy across India and the wider region, deepening partnerships and accelerating adoption in an increasingly competitive digital payments ecosystem.
Sethi brings with him a broad, cross-market perspective shaped by decades of experience across corporate banking, retail financial services, mobile money and large-scale government technology initiatives. He began his career at Citigroup, where he spent 14 years working across India, Africa, South America and the United States, focusing on transaction banking services within the corporate bank.
His appointment signals a blend of institutional experience and market familiarity qualities that could prove critical as Visa navigates a landscape where fintech innovation, regulatory evolution and consumer adoption are all accelerating at once.
As digital payments in India continue to scale rapidly, the leadership change underscores a simple reality, in a market where every tap, scan and swipe counts, who leads the charge can matter just as much as the technology itself.
