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Aspire Foundation launches Aspire High Performance Tennis Program

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The event featured one of the torchbearers of Indian tennis, Mahesh Bhupathi who flew down to Chennai to participate in the function and felicitate Sumit Nagal. Chennai, December, 2019: The Aspire Foundation (a "not for profit" sports education & promotion trust) and The Gandhinagar Club Adyar, hosted a one-of-a-kind tennis evening on December 20th, 2019 to officially launch the Aspire High Performance Tennis Program that seeks to help and nurture talent and to celebrate the journey of Sumit Nagal, soon to be India's top ranked men's tennis player .  Sumit Nagal, the new poster boy of Indian tennis, who rose from 600 to 120 in the ATP rankings in 2019 and will soon break into the Top 100 club, shot to fame by qualifying through to the 2019 US Open Grand Slam main draw and then taking a set off the legendary Roger Federer. The evening featured a star-studded line up of tennis players which includes the likes of Somdev Devvarman , a mentor to the Aspi...

┼аKODA AUTO planning to launch 6 new products in India over the next 2 years

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┼аKODA AUTO India eyes tremendous growth in Tamil Nadu Tamil Nadu to play a key role in driving ┼аKODA’s growth Plans to open 2 more sales and service touch-points in the Southern region of India by 2025 Chennai, 19 th December 2019: India continues to be an attractive market for ┼аKODA as it offers consistent opportunities and sustainable growth in medium to long term. The company is working towards increasing the accessibility of its brand across newer geographies and would be looking at investing in markets across India, over the next few years to meet the much-needed demand. ┼аKODA Auto India plans to increase the accessibility of the brand by doubling the dealer network across fifty new cities, over the next three years - from 63 retail sales outlets today, to 130 plus touch-points by 2022. South India remains one of ┼аKODA’s key growth drivers. The company currently has a robust network of 36 sales and service outlets and 3S facilities across South India. Under India 2...

First in India, An Elderly Person Undergoes Complex Surgery for Acute Type-A & Type-B Aortic Dissection at SIMS Hospital, Chennai

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These kind of complex cases are performed only at few elite medical institutes in the world, because it requires superior surgical skills, latest technology and availability of the modern hybrid graft (Thoraflex Graft) . Chennai, 19 Dec. 2019: For the 1 st time in India, an elderly gentleman underwent a successful surgery for correction of multiple anomalies of Aorta (Acute Type-A Dissection, Leakage in Aortic Valve and A Tear in the Distal end of the Aorta) , in a single stage operation, at The Aortic Aneurysm Centre, SIMS Hospital, Chennai. (L-R) Dr. Raju Sivasamy, Vice President, SIMS Hospital; Dr. V. V. Bashi - Director, Institute of Cardiac & Aortic Disorders (ICAD), SIMS Hospital; A 65 year old Patient; Patients Daughter; Team of Dr. Bashi (back row) Type-A dissection in the ascending aorta itself is a lethal condition posing challenge to Cardiac Surgeons. When it happens suddenly, majority of the patients do not survive, unless surgical treatment is done i...