Navratra Special: Celebrate Navratri with a Special Festive Thali at Samavar, The Ashok

 This season, Samavar invites diners to celebrate tradition with a gourmet twist through its specially curated Navratri Festive Thali—a perfect harmony of flavour and festivity, where vrat classics are reimagined with culinary finesse.

Highlights of the Thali include:

• Crunchy Kacche Kele ka Tuk & Basil Beetroot & Sago Tikki

• Fragrant Zafrani Samak Pulao and indulgent Khoya-Stuffed Paneer Roll

• Comforting dishes like Zeera Hing Aloo and Khatta Meetha Sitafal, alongside wholesome delights such as Arbi ke Kofte in Cinnamon-Spiced Gravy and refreshing Bhuna Shakarkandi & Anaar Chaat

• Crisp Kuttu ki Poori and a sweet finale of Kuttu & Sitafal Tarts

Available daily from 12 noon to 10 pm at ₹800 + taxes per person, the Thali also comes with a complimentary welcome drink to begin your festive journey. Whether observing the fast or joining in the celebrations, this Thali promises a soulful and indulgent experience.

Location: Samavar, The Ashok, New Delhi
Time: 12 noon – 10 pm
Price: ₹800 + taxes per person

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When I was searching for a website to select some unique gifts, to be given to my office colleagues, I stumbled upon

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The website captured my attention instantly with the wider selection of gifts. They were not only novel but affordable as well. The best part is these gifts comes neatly packed and you get to track your order as soon as the order is placed.

The site offers gifts specifically for men, women apart from other options like best sellers, originals and for corporates as well. 

What did I order?

I ordered a unique product which is a key chain cum mobile charger. It was cute, sturdy and most importantly functional. When I gifted this, my colleague was really happy. Almost my entire office was intrigued by the design and functionality. My colleague had immediately put up his two wheeler keys on this.

Don’t you agree with me that the key chain looked cute? Charging is easy. It has C Type usb pin for input and output and comes with a charging cable. 

The next one I ordered was a mobile handheld device - MagSafe Camera Grip with Bluetooth shutter. The functionality is very simple. Place your mobile on the vertical or horizontal direction over the magnetic centre part. Your mobile gets attached to it. There is a on/off button. Switch it on. Turn on the Bluetooth on your mobile. The device is paired. That is it. This product again is a sturdy one and is travel friendly. You can carry it easily. This functions with the help of single cell (similar to the ones used in the watches but a bigger size). So don’t check for usb port to charge it. Take a look at the product.

My colleague who is a travel buff loved it and grabbed it immediately. 

I have earmarked few other products on this sure and this includes a miniature Bluetooth gramophone with  rotating disk. It looks really cute. There are lots and lots of products to choose from. Since I might ended up emptying my wallet, I resisted my temptation and had closed the site. But like I had mentioned, if I get any occasion be it Birthday, Wedding, Promotion or anything else, you know where I would head to. 

They offer multiple payment options like debit cards, credit cards, upi and even cash on delivery.

Check the sure today to see what you would like to grab.

Press Release_From Cashback to Extended Warranties: Hisense Brings Festive Cheer with Exciting Offers on TVs & ACs

National, 22 September 2025 – Hisense, a global leader in consumer electronics and home appliances announces exciting festive season offers in India across its television and air conditioner range, giving customers a chance to upgrade their homes with the latest technology at unmatched value. The offers are available across leading offline retail outlets and online platforms, ensuring accessibility for consumers nationwide.

As part of the festive promotions, customers purchasing Hisense televisions through offline channels can enjoy cashback benefits of up to ₹20,000, along with the convenience of a fixed EMI option starting at just ₹1,999. To make the buying process even more seamless, Hisense is extending a zero downpayment facility, ensuring that customers can bring home the latest technology without upfront financial strain. Every purchase also comes with complimentary free installation, GST benefits, and a one-year JioHotstar subscription, adding enhanced entertainment value to the package. 

Additionally, on online platform Hisense will continue to offer up to 40% discounts on its key television models through during Big Billion Day on Flipkart and Great India Festival on Festival starting from 22^nd Sept onwards paired with the same subscription benefits.

The Hisense festive offers cover the RGB MiniLED UX – the world’s largest RGB MiniLED TV series, available on 36-month EMIs, along with the brand’s popular Smart 4K, QLED, and MiniLED ULED TVs, all designed for superior home entertainment. These models feature Game Mode Plus for responsive gaming, Dolby Vision and Dolby Atmos for a truly immersive cinematic experience, and an AI 4K Upscaler that refines lower-resolution content to near-4K clarity. Powering this experience is the proprietary VIDAA Smart Operating System, which supports 28 languages including Hindi, and integrates smoothly with voice assistants such as Google Assistant, Amazon Alexa, and VIDAA Voice. To ensure long-term value, Hisense continues to stand apart with its industry-leading 8-Year Software Update Guarantee, allowing customers to enjoy updated performance and features well into the future.

For air conditioners, Hisense has designed festive offers that focus on both affordability and durability. Consumers can avail zero downpayment and attractive fixed EMI options, making it easier to invest in reliable cooling solutions. To further strengthen customer confidence, Hisense ACs come with a 10-year warranty on the inverter compressor and a 5-year warranty on the inverter PCB, alongside GST benefits. These assurances reflect the brand’s commitment to quality and long-term reliability.

Speaking on the announcement, Pankaj Rana, CEO, Hisense India, said: “Festive season in India is a time for upgrading lifestyles, and we want to make advanced technology accessible and affordable for every household. Our offers on TVs and ACs are designed to provide value, convenience, and peace of mind to customers, whether they are purchasing online or offline. Through these offers, we aim to strengthen our presence across Tier 1, Tier 2, and Tier 3 cities, bringing world-class technology closer to Indian families.”

Globally, Hisense continues to lead the large-screen TV category, holding the No.1 position in the 100” TV segment (Source: Omdia 2023–24). In India, the brand has built a strong distribution network across Amazon, Flipkart, and major offline retail chains like Sathya Agencies, Great Eastern Retail further reinforced by its focus on customer-first festive initiatives.

About Hisense

Hisense India is a subsidiary of Hisense Group, a global leader in consumer electronics and home appliances. With a presence in over 160 countries, Hisense is known for its innovation, cutting-edge technology, and high-quality products spanning televisions, refrigerators, air conditioners, washing machines, and more. Globally, Hisense holds the No.1 position in the 100” TV category (Source: Omdia 2023–24). Committed to delivering exceptional value and world-class experiences, the brand is focused on product innovation and manufacturing, robust retail partnerships, and long-term growth in the market. 

For more information, please visit:www.hisenseindia.com

 

[Press Release] Redis bets on India’s AI momentum as Rowan Trollope, CEO announces Recent Acquisition of Decodable

 Redis bets on India’s AI momentum as Rowan Trollope, CEO announces Recent Acquisition of Decodable

1. Redis unveils LangCache for advancing AI innovation for enterprises and startups, tocut LLM costs up to 70%
2. Highlights the company’s AI strategy including LangCache Public Preview, new agent integrations

INDIA, BANGALORE — September 17 , 2025 — Redis, the world’s fastest data platform, today announced a major expansion of its AI strategy at Redis Released 2025. During his maiden visit to India as CEO of Redis, Rowan Trollope highlighted the company’s AI strategy, and announced new tools and capabilities for the company’s platform, as well as the strategic acquisition of Decodable, while underscoring India’s growing role in Redis’ global innovation roadmap. He emphasised India’s AI-led innovation and its role as a hub for engineering talent, enterprise adoption, and customer growth.

While addressing the media, Redis CEO Rowan Trollope announced the acquisition ofreal-time data platform Decodable, the public preview of Redis’ new LangCache service, and several other improvements to Redis for AI that make it easier for developers to build agents with reliable, persistent memory. Together, these moves accelerate Redis’ evolution from the fastest in-memory data store to an essential infrastructure layer for AI, delivering the context and memory that intelligent agents depend on.

“As AI enters its next phase, the challenge isn’t proving what language models can do; it’s giving them the context and memory to act with relevance and reliability,” said Rowan Trollope, CEO of Redis. “As technology becomes ever more reliant on LLMs, the strategic investment we made in Decodable’s platform will make it easier for developers to build and expand data pipelines and convert that data into context within Redis, so it’s fast and always available in the right place at the right time.”

“India is not only a fast-growing market for Redis, it is also helping to shape the future of AI. With one of the world’s largest startup ecosystems, and millions of developers building intelligent applications, India represents the kind of scale, ambition, and innovation where Redis thrives. As enterprises and startups here embrace AI at unprecedented speed, our focus is on giving them the context, memory, and real-time infrastructure their systems need to be more capable, responsive, and reliable,” Trollope further added.

Redis also announced the public preview of LangCache, a fully-managed semantic caching service which cuts the latency and token usage for LLM-dependent applications by as much as 70%, and announced several updates to its AI infrastructure tools, including hybrid search enhancements, integrations with agent frameworks for AutoGen and Cognee. For India’s third largest startup ecosystem and the fastest-growing developer community with over 17 million developers, where cost optimization and scalability are crucial, LangCache helps build more affordable AI-powered experiences for chatbots, agents, and enterprise applications.

LangCache public preview

LangCache is Redis’ fully-managed semantic caching solution that stores and retrieves semantically similar calls to LLMs for chatbots and agents, saving roundtrip latency and drastically cutting token usage.

The performance and cost improvements are substantial:

1. Up to 70% reduction in LLM API costs, especially in high-traffic applications
2. 15x faster response times for cache hits compared to live LLM inference
3. Improved end-user experience with lower latency and more consistent outputs

LangCache is in public preview today.

New agent integrations and agent memory

It’s now easier to use Redis with existing AI frameworks and tools. Our ecosystem integrations let developers store their data the way they want, without needing to write custom code. New integrations with AutoGen, Cognee, plus new enhancements with LangGraph expand how developers can use Redis’ scalable, persistent memory layer for agents and chatbots.

Build with:

1. AutoGen as a framework while getting the fast-data memory layer of Redis and build with existing templates
2. Cognee to simplify memory management with built-in summarization, planning, and reasoning using Redis as your backbone
3. LangGraph with new enhancements to improve your persistent memory and make your AI agents more reliable

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About Redis

Redis is the world’s fastest data platform. From its open source origins in 2011 to becoming the #1 cited brand for caching solutions, Redis has helped more than 10,000 customers build, scale, and deploy the apps our world runs on. With multi-cloud and on-prem databases for caching, vector search, and more, Redis helps digital businesses set a new standard for app speed.

Located in San Francisco, Austin, London, and Tel Aviv, Redis is internationally recognized as the leader in building fast apps fast. Learn more at redis.io.

Annexure:

‘Redis is reliable, resilient, and built for scale. It powers our most critical systems—from pricing to personalization—while letting us focus on delivering innovation to our customers’ Vivek Parihal, Head of Engineering, Purplle

Other Redis for AI improvements

With the rapid emergence of AI agents, Redis is ensuring that its users have the ability to build high-quality agents using Redis for AI. Redis integrations with popular AI agent frameworks enable users to build agents faster and with more reliability. Key agent-focused capabilities include:

1. Hybrid search enhancements. Redis now includes Reciprocal Rank Fusion, a method to unify text and vector rankings into a single, more relevant result set.
2. Quantization. Redis now supports int8 quantized embeddings. Compress float vectors to 8‑bit integers for a smaller memory footprint and faster search performance for 75% memory savings and 30% faster search speeds in large‑scale AI applications

Redis Cloud and Redis Open Source updates

Redis also announced multiple updates to Redis Cloud and Redis Open Source, including:

1. Redis 8.2 GA. Bringing a huge leap in performance with 35% faster commands versus Redis 8.0, 37% smaller memory footprint, and improvements to Redis Query Engine, including 18 data structures including vector sets, and 480+ commands like hash field expiration.
2. Redis Data Integration (RDI) public preview on Cloud. Keep Redis caches fresh and in-sync with source databases using easy-to-setup, zero-code data pipelines. Speed up legacy data to become real time in minutes.
3. Redis Insight available on Cloud. Act on Redis data straight from a browser. Visualize and cut debugging time from hours to minutes, without having to open a terminal and context switch, to keep on top of Redis performance.