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Madhukar Kamath elected chairman of the Audit Bureau of Circulations

Madhukar Kamath has been unanimously elected as chairman of the Audit Bureau of Circulations (ABC) for 2019-20. Devendra V Darda was elected as managing director. Madhukar Kamath Madhukar Kamath is the chairman emeritus of advertising firm DDB Mudra Group. He has over four decades of experience in advertising and marketing services. Earlier he had served ..

Topics: ABC • Alliance for Audited Media • Audit Bureau of Circulations • DDB Mudra • Newspaper circulation • Publishing

Amazon launches Military Veterans Employment programme in India

E-commerce major Amazon India has launched a Military Veterans Employment programme in the country to create hundreds of opportunities for military veterans and their spouses across the company’s fulfilment centres. For this noble cause, Amazon India has partnered with the Office of the Director General of Resettlement (DGR) and the Army Welfare Placement Organisation (AWPO) ..

Topics: 3D publishing • Amazon • Companies • Publishing • Rivers

Tackling Fraudulent Research Practices in Publishing

In a study performed by the Institut de Recherche de Chimie Paris which is a joint CNRS/Chimie ParisTech research institute in Paris, the papers in chemistry and materials sciences were investigated and the researchers gained significant insights from them. What was the study? Using the Scopus database of Elsevier, the researchers investigated the number of ..

Topics: Ethics • Higher education • Publishing • Research • Science

Update : Research in India

While the Indian Government is keen to invest heavily in improving the Research facilities and outlook in the country, international research watch-dogs have alleged major concerns with the research work being published by Indian scholars and senior authors. What is happening? Several premier Indian research institutions like the IISc Bangalore, Indian School of Mines (now ..

Topics: Education • Higher education • Publishing • Research

Union government launches Go Tribal Campaign

On July 28, the Union government has launched the Go Tribal Campaign in New Delhi to promote the use of tribal handicrafts and natural products. TRIFED has organized this event to institutionalize collaborations and partnerships with different organizations to promote tribal products. During the event, Tribes India and Amazon Global Marketing (AGM) have launched TRIBES ..

Topics: Adivasi • Amazon • Ethnic groups in India • Indian society • Publishing • South Asia

Thousands of Amazon Workers Are Listening to What You Tell Alexa

Amazon has employed thousands of workers to improve and assist the Alexa digital assistant powering its line of Echo speakers. Amazon workers team listens to voice recordings captured in Echo owners’ homes and offices. They might also hear private details such as bank details. The recordings are fed back into the software to eliminate gaps ..

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