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Libas lights up the festive season with festive campaign Roshni
MUMBAI: Here’s a fashion story that truly shines from within! Libas, India’s leading ultra-fast fashion brand, has launched its 2025 festive campaign Roshni, a dazzling celebration of light, power, and the divine energy that every woman carries within.
Much like its name, Roshni (meaning light) glows with symbolism, honouring women as the embodiment of the Devi, balancing strength with grace. Drawing from Indian history and timeless tales, the campaign weaves mythology and modernity into one luminous narrative.
The accompanying festive collection captures that same spirit: flowy silhouettes, intricate embroidery, and sequinned details that sparkle with understated glamour. Crafted in plush velvet and silk, the pieces radiate regal charm, with prices ranging from Rs 2,000 to Rs 7,000. Think florals, shimmer, and everything that lights up the festive mood.
Speaking about the campaign, Libas head of marketing Nisha Khatr said, “With Roshni, we wanted to capture the true essence of the festive season: joy, strength, and light. India has always been a land of Devis, and this collection embodies that duality: gentle yet fierce.”
Available across Libas’ app, website, leading e-commerce marketplaces, and offline stores, Roshni invites women to celebrate not just the sparkle around them, but also the glow within.
Because this festive season, as Libas reminds us, light isn’t just something you see. It’s something you wear.
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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.
