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Vivel unveils inspiring video on #BossWomen
MUMBAI: Unstoppable ambition and signature styles is what defines these non-conformists who aren’t deterred by gender stereotypes. Meet the #BossWomen who have blazed their own trails to the very top.
Vivel unveils an inspiring video series which explores their remarkable journey to shatter the glass ceiling in business. Their fearless pursuit of their dreams and the courage to say Ab Samjhauta Nahin brings to bear the indomitable spirit that continuously strives to encourage women to make their own choices.
Jagran Group president Apurva Purohit underscores how women need to change. It is the woman who has to make the choice to be the protagonist, the victim or the bystander of her own story! Your Story founder and chief editor Shradha Sharma points that women easily love everyone around them but forget to love themselves and in the process ignore their own dreams and desires and settle for a life of compromises. Shradha’s message to all parents – “Love your girls for being girls.”
ITC Infotech MD & CEO Sushma Rajagopalan urges parents to ignite a sense of ambition in a girl child right from a very young age. It is important to treat both small and big ambitions alike.
Shardul Amarchand Mangaldas managing partner Pallavi Shroff stresses that the most important thing for a woman is to believe in herself that she is capable, competent and can do whatever she wants to do.
Apollo Hospitals executive vice-chairperson Shobana Kamineni believes that a woman will always be faced with a multiplicity of choices but most of the decisions will be based on others. Thinking about yourself sometimes actually is good for everyone.
The personal and professional journey of these industry stalwarts is a true inspiration. #BossWomen encourages women to stop compromising on their dreams and ambitions and help in raising a generation that lives and breathes Ab Samjhauta Nahin!
Vivel Ab Samjhauta Nahin is a women’s campaign to crusade against time worn mind sets that tend to stereotype. It seeks to enable self-belief and self-reliance and thereby empower women to live fuller lives. Vivel not only celebrates a woman’s power, but also actively stands for her right to an equal life.
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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.
