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Unstop’s World Cup Quiz Festival amps up cricket fever
Mumbai: With the ICC Men’s Cricket World Cup just around the corner, the cricket fever is running high across the country. Unstop, a community engagement and hiring platform for students and graduates, has announced an event that will be a delight for cricket lovers – the World’s Biggest Cricket Quiz Festival, a digital contest which will run for 45 days all through the duration of the World Cup.
The digital playground of the quiz will have 45 overs, or daily quizzes, for participants to attempt and win the grand prize. There will be six deliveries, or questions, per quiz. Participants will have the chance to test their cricketing prowess, challenge friends and fellow enthusiasts, and win exciting prizes.
Participants must maintain a streak of playing ten sequential quizzes in order to be eligible to win prizes. On match days for Team India, Unstop will offer two times reward points. Further, before the actual final of the World Cup, Unstop will conduct the Grand Finale of the quiz with the Top 6 participants. The winner of the Grand Finale shall be crowned the Champion of the Quiz and will take home a whopping Rs 1,00,000 prize money. The other finalists will also get attractive cash prizes, as will other players on the global leaderboard.
The World’s Biggest Cricket Quiz Festival promises to be a global phenomenon, with participants from across the world coming together to celebrate the sport’s rich history and vibrant future. Whether you’re a seasoned cricket buff or a novice eager to learn, this quiz is an opportunity to revel in the magic of cricket.
Unstop founder and CEO Ankit Aggarwal, said, “I’ve always enjoyed cricket and the atmosphere during the World Cup is surreal. With a community of young talent who love sports, we at Unstop had to do something to engage them during this World Cup that’s fun and adds value at the same time. We look forward to hosting the quiz and are confident that participants will have one of the best experiences showcasing their knowledge of the game while supporting our men in blue”.
Unstop VP, marketing & growth Alekhya Chakrabarty, added, “The DNA of Unstop is quizzing. With the Cricket World Cup coming back to India after 12 long years, we felt it is natural to combine quizzing with the game to give birth to this competition for our community. The questions are going to be fun and there are going to be googlies aplenty. The 45-day long extravaganza will see continuous engagement for our users off the field while enjoying the on-field action all through the World Cup.’’
Individuals of all ages are eligible to take part in the quiz. All you need to have is a love and passion for cricket!
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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.
