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McDonald’s attracts Indians with music
MUMBAI: In a bid to strengthen its ties with the fast food Indian fan McDonald’s India has launched a Music Meal campaign. This is being done in association with Coca-Cola India and Universal Music India.
McDonald’s will be giving away a set of specially compiled four mini CD’s to its customers during the course of the entire campaign. The campaign culminates with an opportunity of witnessing an exclusive “Bombay Vikings Show”.
In tune with the excitement of the season, McDonald’s India promises its customers lots of fun and music this spring. With the purchase of every ‘Large Meal Combo’ at McDonald’s, customers will get a mini CD on payment of an additional Rs 25. This comes to them attractively displayed and uniquely inserted in the lid of their coke glass.
McDonald’s North India MD Vikram Bakshi said, “As a leader in the food industry, McDonald’s continues to pave the way for young adults by offering them a variety of choices through music, which is so much a part of their world. We like to engage customers with fun, new promotions that are in tune with their changing desires and can meet their current needs.”
In consultation with Universal Music India, McDonald’s has put together these four mini CD’s for its customers, featuring some of the best selling remixes of Bombay Vikings, DJ Aqeel, Harry Anand and Josh, to name a few.
These are available at all McDonald’s restaurants in the country in four different phases spread at an interval of about 10 days each. In each phase customers get to take home a different mini music CD. These CDs present a collection of some of the most happening remixes and ensure that the exciting time customer’s have at McDonald’s continues long after they have enjoyed their meal.
On collection of all the four CD’s, customers will be entitled to a free ticket for an ‘Exclusive Bombay Vikings Show’. This can be collected from any of the McDonald’s outlets in their cities after today 24 March 2005. The show is scheduled to be hosted around mid April in New Delhi.
The ‘Large Meal Combo’ is competitively priced between Rs 88 and Rs 99 and includes both vegetarian and non-vegetarian options together with one medium French Fries and one medium soft drink. For the vegetarians, the choices are a McVeggie Burger (with or without cheese) or a Paneer Wrap or a McCurry Pan and for the non-vegetarians the options include a Fish-o-filet or a McChicken Burger or a Chicken Mexican Wrap or a McCurry Pan.
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Naveen Kokkanti promoted to director – devOps at Nasdaq
Tech leader steps up to steer innovation and modernise systems
BENGALURU: Naveen Kokkanti has been elevated to director – devOps at Nasdaq, marking a defining moment in his 14 year journey through the fast evolving world of digital transformation.
Based in Bengaluru, Kokkanti moves into the role after a short but impactful stint as lead devOps engineer at the global exchange operator. In his new position, he will focus on driving innovation, sharpening operational efficiency and reinforcing the organisation’s technology backbone.
For Kokkanti, the promotion reflects more than a change in title. It crowns over a decade of building, migrating and modernising enterprise systems across some of the biggest names in technology and consulting.
Before joining Nasdaq in 2025, he spent four years at Deloitte Consulting as senior consultant, where he worked extensively on large scale cloud and data transformations. His work ranged from migrating legacy data applications to AWS and implementing unity catalog governance frameworks, to designing multi cloud Databricks lakehouse strategies. He was also part of Deloitte’s Databricks alliance core team, contributing to go to market initiatives and publishing technical whitepapers on migration and architecture best practices.
Earlier roles at Virtusa and Infosys saw him lead cloud migrations, design secure infrastructure environments and manage enterprise grade AWS ecosystems. At Infosys, he led a team of engineers while overseeing everything from VPC architecture and IAM policies to disaster recovery, security hardening and cost optimisation.
His career began with hands on infrastructure and support roles at Micro Focus, Cerner Corporation and Dell Technologies, where he developed a strong foundation in systems engineering, virtualisation and enterprise IT operations.
Across roles, a consistent theme emerges. Kokkanti thrives at the intersection of cloud, data and governance. From Terraform and AWS to Databricks and enterprise devOps frameworks, his skillset reflects the growing demand for leaders who can translate complex infrastructure into scalable, secure and business ready platforms.
At Nasdaq, that blend of technical depth and leadership experience is set to play a key role as the organisation continues to evolve its global technology infrastructure. For Kokkanti, the promotion is not just about moving up. It is about building forward.
