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IndusInd Bank launches international Mahila card
BANGALORE: IndusInd Bank has launched its International Mahila Card on the eve of the International Women’s Day.
International Mahila Card is an international card with a wide accessibility over 1,50,000 point-of-sales terminals across the country and overseas merchant establishments as well. International Mahila Card will be issued to the women customers of the bank as an add-on card. The card holder will have a credit limit of Rs.25000 with 100% cash withdrawal facility without additional charges through the Bank’s ATMs across the country.
IndusInd Bank executive vice president Suresh Pai said, “IndusInd Bank has always believed in providing the tailor made products to its customers. Keeping in tune with this spirit, the Bank has already launched Young Saver Scheme to promote saving habit in children, and a scheme for senior citizens. The International Mahila Card has the spirit of “empowerment to women” built into it along with greater convenience.”
Unlike Credit Cards, interest charges on overdrawing on Mahila Cards would be nominal. Bank has also tied up with select shopping outlets for special discounts to Women by using IndusInd Mahila Card. Bank has plans to issue over one lakh cards under this category during next one year.
According to a press release the Bank is all set to have 130 branches by March 2005. This will further add to the network strength, making it a significant player in the retail banking space. IndusInd Bank has also tied up with UTI Bank and Corporation Bank for sharing of their ATM network for its own clients.
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Samsung certifies 1,000 Maharashtra students in AI and coding
The South Korean electronics giant marks its first large-scale skilling push in the state, with women making up nearly half the national programme’s enrolment
PUNE: Samsung has put 1,000 students in Maharashtra through a certified training programme in artificial intelligence and coding, the largest such drive the South Korean electronics company has run in the state and a signal that corporate India’s skilling ambitions are moving well beyond the boardroom brochure.
The certifications were awarded under Samsung Innovation Campus (SIC), the company’s flagship corporate social responsibility programme, which launched in India in 2022 with the stated aim of democratising access to future-technology education. The 1,000 graduates were drawn from four institutions: 127 from Savitribai Phule Pune University, 373 from Pimpri Chinchwad University, 250 from D.Y. Patil University’s Ramrao Adik Institute of Technology and 250 from Anjuman-I-Islam’s Kalsekar Technical Campus. All completed training in either AI or coding and programming, the two disciplines Samsung has identified as the critical pillars of the digital economy.
The programme does not stop at technical training. Soft-skills development and career-readiness modules are baked into the curriculum, a deliberate attempt to close the gap between what universities teach and what employers actually want.
“India’s digital growth story will ultimately be shaped by the quality of its talent pipeline,” said Shubham Mukherjee, head of CSR and corporate communications at Samsung Southwest Asia. “As technologies like AI move from the periphery to the core of industries, skilling must evolve from basic training to building real-world capability. This milestone in Maharashtra reflects how industry and academia can come together to create a future-ready workforce that is both globally competitive and locally relevant.”
The Maharashtra drive sits within a rapidly scaling national effort. Samsung Innovation Campus trained 20,000 young people across India in 2025, hitting its stated target for the year. Women account for 48 per cent of national enrolments, a figure the company cites as evidence of its push for an inclusive technology ecosystem. The programme is implemented in partnership with the Electronics Sector Skills Council of India and the Telecom Sector Skill Council.
Samsung, which is marking 30 years in India this year, runs SIC alongside two other initiatives, Samsung Solve for Tomorrow and Samsung DOST, as part of a broader effort to build what it calls a generation of innovators with both the technical depth and the problem-solving mindset to thrive in a fast-moving digital world.
A thousand certified students is a tidy headline. Whether they find jobs that match their new skills is the harder question, and the one that will ultimately determine whether corporate skilling programmes like this one are genuine pipelines or well-photographed gestures.
