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Creativity for good

Last month, The Times Group launched a one of a kind competition called ‘Power of Print’, a unique initiative that’s meant to harness the power of creativity afforded by the print medium to effect change. The Power of Print contest invites participants to use the medium to work on a live brief set out by a brand/company to solve a real and current business or social problem. In its first year, The Times Group partnered with Nestle India. For a while now Nestle has been actively promoting the cause of girl-child education and the objective of the first ‘Power of Print’ campaign is therefore to ensure that ‘more girls go to school’.

Entries for the print campaign are expected to meet the objective of getting girls to school through increase in number of donations and talkability about the subject. The contest is open to all communication agencies from creative and media to digital and PR. Power of Print launched on March 27th, 2017 and it will culminate at the Kyoorius Creative Awards (KCA) on 2 June 2017 in Mumbai, where one agency will walk away with the ‘Power of Print’ Award. The victors will also have their award-winning campaign released in The Times of India group publications. The last date to submit your entries is the 29 April, 2017.

Some of the leading lights of advertising and marketing industry are on the jury that will judge the entries. These include Prasoon Joshi (McCann Worldgroup), Bobby Pawar (Publicis), KV Sridhar (HyperCollective), Raj Kamble (Famous), Agnello Dias (Taproot Dentsu), Arun Iyer (Lowe Lintas), Senthil Kumar (JWT), Kainaz Karmakar (O&M), Swati Bhattacharya (FCB Ulka), Shrijeet Mishra (BCCL), and Chandrasekhar Radhakrishnan (Nestle India). (The Economic Times)

Bihar university forgets to print question papers

Bihar, already under scrutiny for allegation of mass cheating and question paper leaks, came under fire once again recently when a university entirely forgot to print question papers.

Total 94 students of the Tilka Manjhi Bhagalpur University (TMBU) could not take their postgraduate examination in Hindi as the question papers were not available. The incident came to light on 13 April when the students turned up for their last exam, only to discover that the question papers had not been delivered from the printing press.

When the registrar of the university inquired from the Controller of Examinations, he was told the question papers were not delivered by the printing press.

Taking strong note of the matter, the vice-chancellor of the university, Nalini Kant Jha, has served a show-cause notice to the Hindi department and section officer of the examination control department.

Tilka Manjhi Bhagalpur University was in news last year for providing a fake law degree to AAP MLA Jitender Singh Tomar, who was sacked as Delhi’s law minister last year. (PTI)

NSCN (R) directs printers to seek permission before printing govt jobs

NSCN/ GPRN (Reformation) has directed and instructed all the printing press/press owners of Nagaland not to entertain the printing of its government pad, challan and stamp or any other instruments related with the government, without proper verification or rightful authorisation by the central government of NSCN (R).

The organisation  has informed all the printing press of Nagaland to abide by its directive with immediate effect so as to ensure smooth and effective functioning of the government.

The NSCN (R) warned that stern action would be taken against defaulters. (Nagaland Post)