Press release - BenQ Launches GV50: The Ultimate Portable Projector for Comfort and Convenience

National, 14^th April, 2024: BenQ, a leading provider of advanced display technology solutions, unveils the GV50 Smart FHD Laser portable projector, designed with ultra-flexible projection angles and exceptional audio-visual features to provide the ultimate comfortable viewing experience on the 120” Screen, anywhere, anytime. 

In the fast-paced urban lifestyle, moments of relaxation are increasingly vital amidst the demands of work and personal life. The GV50 smart laser portable projector meets this need by transforming any room into a cozy cinema. With Google TV and built-in Netflix, you get instant access to your favorite content.

As the new flagship portable model, the GV50 retains the 135° vertical projection flexibility of BenQ’s popular GV portable projector series while introducing significant upgrades in brightness, and onboard system capabilities featuring a Laser Light Source (up to 30,000hrs of Lifetime) for sharper details. Intelligent screen adaptation technologies, including auto-focus, auto 2D keystone correction, and obstacle avoidance, provide an easy/ effortless experience, regardless of room size or projection surface. It also comes with 150 minutes of video playtime or 280 minutes of Bluetooth music playback.

"The GV50 is thoughtfully crafted to complement modern lifestyles. It offers unmatched flexibility, enabling users to access high-quality content anytime, anywhere. GV50 is a gateway to immersive experience, perfectly suited to the way people engage with content today" said Mr. Rajeev Singh, Managing Director of BenQ India.

Key Features at the Glance:

Immerse Yourself in Cinema-Quality Viewing with 1080P Resolution, Laser Light Source and Powerful 18W 2.1ch Speakers

The GV50 delivers unparalleled audio-visual quality, top-notch service standards, and exceptional color accuracy. Equipped with BenQ CinematicColor and CinematicSound technologies, Rec. 709 color precision, HDR/HLG support, and a bright 500 ANSI lumens, it elevates the immerse experience to a whole new level.

GV50 is designed to project 120” Full HD 1080p visuals from anywhere. Living up to BenQ's stellar reputation as a leading innovative projector brand, It also comes with a powerful In-built 18W Speaker System with extra bass for rich cinematic-audio experience

Unlimited Entertainment with Google TV and Built-In Netflix 

Geared towards all-in-one entertainment, the GV50 comes preloaded with the latest Google TV and licensed Netflix, offering seamless streaming, along with a 22.4ms input lag for casual gaming. It features USB-C data transmission, DisplayPort output, and power delivery for mobile devices and Nintendo Switch. Besides, its integrated battery provides up to 150 minutes of video playtime or 280 minutes of Bluetooth music playback.

Project from Any Angle with a Versatile Base Design

The GV50 stands out for its purpose-driven features, designed to deliver an immersive experience, even in compact spaces without compromising space or convenience. Its omnidirectional angle versatility, two-stage tilt projection, digital zoom, and digital H/V lens shift combine to offer a hassle-free experience from any position. 

Price and Availability:

Exclusively available on the BenQ E-store & Amazon starting from April 22.

Pre-booking is now live! Enjoy a special launch price of ₹69,990 on pre-orders until April 22 — only on BenQ E-store & Amazon.

About BenQ Corporation

Founded on the corporate vision of “Bringing Enjoyment ‘N’ Quality to Life”, BenQ Corporation is a world-leading human technology and solutions provider aiming to elevate and enrich every aspect of consumers’ lives. To realize this vision, the company focuses on the aspects that matter most to people today – lifestyle, business, healthcare, and education – with the hope of providing people with the means to live better, increase efficiency, feel healthier and enhance learning. Such means include a delightful broad portfolio of people-driven products and embedded technologies spanning digital projectors, monitors, interactive large-format displays, and lighting solutions. Because it matters.   

About BenQ Group

The BenQ Group is a $25+ billion powerhouse comprised of nearly 20 independent companies operating in over 30 countries across numerous industries with a combined workforce of over 100,000 employees.  Each Group member is a recognized leader in its own field, contributing to the BenQ Group’s vast resources, broad R&D, and distinct strategic strengths.  By leveraging each company’s vertical specialization to create true scale across horizontal markets, the BenQ Group controls a highly efficient value chain with the unrivaled ability to deliver critical components and world-class solutions in the following industries: TFT-LCD, green energy, fine chemicals, and advanced materials, lighting, IC design, precision components, system integration, branded business, and service.  The Group is committed to profitable and sustainable businesses that share its long-standing vision of Bringing Enjoyment ‘N’ Quality to Life.

The BenQ Group companies are BenQ Corporation, AU Optronics Corporation (world’s top manufacturer of large-size TFT-LCD panels), Qisda Corporation, Darfon Electronics Corporation, BenQ ESCO Corp., BenQ Materials Corp., BenQ Guru Corp., BenQ Medical Center, BenQ Medical Technology Corp., BenQ AB DentCare Corp., BriView Co., Ltd., Daxin Materials Corp., Dazzo Technology Corp., Forhouse Corp., Lextar Electronics Corp., LILY Medical Corp., and Raydium Semiconductor Corp.                                                                            

NEWS: Cloudflare eliminates major barriers to AI agent development

 

India, April 8, 2025 – Cloudflare, Inc. (NYSE: NET), the leading connectivity cloud company, today announced several new offerings to accelerate the development of AI agents. Cloudflare now enables developers to easily build and deploy powerful AI agents with the industry’s first remote Model Context Protocol (MCP) server, generally available access to durable Workflows, and a free tier for Durable Objects. These offerings enable developers to build agents in minutes, rather than months, simply, affordably, and at scale.

AI agents – AI-enabled systems that can act autonomously, make decisions, and adapt to changing environments – represent the future of AI. AI agents have the potential to unlock massive productivity gains, and yet businesses are struggling to build agents that deliver real return on investment. Building agents require access to three core components: AI models for reasoning, workflows for execution, and APIs for access to tools and services. In order to build scalable agentic systems, organizations need access to a platform that can provide each of these components in a scalable, cost-efficient way.

“Cloudflare is the best place to build and scale AI agents. Period. The most innovative companies out there see that agents are the next big frontier in AI, and they’re choosing Cloudflare because we’ve got everything they need to move fast and build at scale on our Workers platform,” said Matthew Prince, co-founder and CEO of Cloudflare. “Cloudflare was built for this moment. First, we built the most interconnected network on the planet. Then, we built a developer platform that took advantage of that network to run code within 50 milliseconds of 95% of everyone online. And, we’re keeping our foot on the gas to give developers the best tools to build the future of agentic AI.”

With today’s announcement, Cloudflare's Developer Platformaddresses some of the most critical challenges in building AI agents by:

Unlocking smart, autonomous actions with the industry’s first remote MCP server

MCP is a fast-growing open source standard that lets AI agents interact directly with external services. This shifts AI from simply giving instructions to actually completing tasks on a user’s behalf – whether that’s sending an email, booking a meeting, or deploying code changes. Previously, MCP has been limited to running locally on a device, making it accessible to developers and early-adopters but hindering wider, mainstream adoption.

Cloudflare is making it easy to build and deploy remote MCP servers on Cloudflare, so any AI agent can securely connect over the Internet and interact with services, like email, without the need for a locally hosted server. MCP servers built on Cloudflare can retain context, providing a persistent, ongoing experience for each user. And through partnerships with Auth0, Stytch, and WorkOS, Cloudflare is simplifying authentication and authorization that allows users to delegate permissions to agents, making secure agent deployment dramatically simpler.

Building intelligent, contextually aware AI agents with Durable Objects, now on free tier

Previously only available as part of paid plans, developers can now access Durable Objects on Cloudflare’s free tier, expanding broad and democratized access to a critical component for building agents. Durable Objects are a special type of Cloudflare Worker that combines compute with storage, allowing you to build stateful applications in a serverless environment without managing infrastructure. Durable Objects provide the ideal foundation for AI agents that need to maintain context across interactions, such as remembering past preferences or changing behavior based on prior events. Cloudflare’s network ensures Durable Objects scale out to millions of simultaneous customer interactions and can operate agents near the original request, ensuring each customer has a fast, low latency response.

Deploying durable, multi-step applications with Workflows, now generally available

Workflows allow you to build multi-step applications that can automatically retry, persist, and run for minutes, hours, days, or weeks. Workflows is now generally available, providing developers and organizations with a reliable way to build and manage multi-step applications infused with AI. For example, building an agent Workflow to book a trip would require searching for flights in a price range, which would require a persistent search over a certain predetermined time span. Then, once the flights have been found, an agent would purchase the flights with traveler information and a credit card. And finally, send confirmation to each traveler in the party.

Paying only for what you use, for the most cost-efficient AI deployment

AI inference is hard to predict and inconsistent in nature, unlike training, because it relies on human behavior, including the time of day and what action a person wants to take. With traditional hyperscalers, this requires organizations to prepare and provision for the highest level of capacity they can expect, even if that level only happens at peak times. Cloudflare's serverless platform automatically scales inference and AI agent resources based on demand, from zero to global scale in milliseconds. This ensures organizations only pay for what they use, dramatically reducing costs compared to traditional cloud deployments that require constant provisioning.

"Cloudflare offers a developer-friendly ecosystem for creating AI agents that includes a free tier for Durable Objects and serverless options for AI inference,” explains Kate Holterhoff, senior analyst at RedMonk. “These low-cost, easy-to-use options could empower more businesses to adopt and experiment with agentic AI."

Cloudflare has been a leader in making AI inference accessible, breaking down barriers that have kept AI out of reach for most businesses. Cloudflare has GPUs deployed across more than 190 cities globally, bringing AI as close to the user as possible for low latency experiences.

To learn more, please check out the resources below:

Get started building at agents.cloudflare.com

Blog: Piecing together the Agent puzzle: MCP, authentication & authorization, and Durable Objects free tier

Blog: Cloudflare Workflows is now GA: production-ready durable execution

About Cloudflare

Cloudflare, Inc. (NYSE: NET) is the leading connectivity cloud company on a mission to help build a better Internet. It empowers organizations to make their employees, applications and networks faster and more secure everywhere, while reducing complexity and cost. Cloudflare’s connectivity cloud delivers the most full-featured, unified platform of cloud-native products and developer tools, so any organization can gain the control they need to work, develop, and accelerate their business.

Powered by one of the world’s largest and most interconnected networks, Cloudflare blocks billions of threats online for its customers every day. It is trusted by millions of organizations – from the largest brands to entrepreneurs and small businesses to nonprofits, humanitarian groups, and governments across the globe.

Learn more about Cloudflare’s connectivity cloud at cloudflare.com/connectivity-cloud. Learn more about the latest Internet trends and insights at https://radar.cloudflare.com.

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Press Release - The Development Monitoring and Evaluation Office (DMEO) of NITI Aayog and New Development Bank’s Independent Evaluation Office (IEO) Sign a Statement of Intent to Strengthen Independent Evaluation in India

New Delhi, India, 8th April 2025: The Development Monitoring and Evaluation Office (DMEO) of the National Institution for Transforming India (NITI Aayog) and the Independent Evaluation Office (IEO) of the New Development Bank (NDB) have signed a statement of intent to enhance cooperation in the field of independent evaluation and capacity-building. 

 

The statement of intent establishes a framework for strategic and technical collaboration between DMEO and IEO, supporting evidence-based policymaking and improving development effectiveness. The partnership will focus on knowledge exchange, evaluation capacity-building, and awareness initiatives to reinforce India's evaluation landscape.

 

Key areas of cooperation between DMEO and IEO include:

• Technical assistance: Sharing expertise and best practices in independent evaluation methodologies.

• Capacity-building: Organising workshops and training programmes to strengthen technical capabilities at national and state levels.

• Knowledge-sharing: Facilitating exchange of methodologies, tools and evaluation approaches.

• Awareness and communications: Joint activities to promote M&E, including conferences, stakeholder meetings and learning events.

 

In her message on this occasion, Ms. Nidhi Chhibber, Director-General, DMEO, NITI Aayog, stated, “By bringing together the expertise of DMEO, NITI Aayog and IEO, NDB, the partnership will facilitate the sharing of technical knowledge, development of methodologies, and capacity building, leading to a more synergistic and strengthened monitoring & evaluation ecosystem”.

 

In his remarks, Mr. Ashwani K. Muthoo, Director General, IEO, NDB, noted, “With 26 projects worth USD 8.6 billion financed in India since 2016, NDB is deeply committed to supporting the country’s development journey. Independent evaluation ensures that these investments yield sustainable results. Through this collaboration with DMEO, we aim to not only enhance evaluation capacity but also contribute to India’s long-term development goals by strengthening accountability, evaluation-based knowledge-sharing and evidence-driven decision-making”.

 

NDB’s portfolio in India spans critical sectors such as transport infrastructure (with 55% of its projects focused on this sector), water and sanitation (16%), renewable energy (3%), and COVID-19 emergency assistance (23%). These projects are spread across 13 states and union territories, with four initiatives having a nationwide scope.

 

This partnership underscores NDB’s commitment to supporting India's development agenda and reinforces its role in fostering sustainable and inclusive growth.

 

 

About the New Development Bank

NDB is a multilateral bank established in 2015 by Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa (BRICS) with the aim of mobilising resources for infrastructure and sustainable development projects in BRICS countries and emerging markets and developing countries (EMDCs). In alignment with its members’ development objectives and commitments under the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and the Paris Agreement, NDB prioritises high-impact operations that are climate-smart, disaster-resilient, technology-integrated, and socially inclusive. NDB’s Independent Evaluation Office (IEO) is responsible for independently evaluating the Bank’s policies, strategies, processes, initiatives and operations. IEO also contributes and provides oversight to improve the effectiveness of the Bank’s quality assurance and self-evaluation activities.

 

About the Development Monitoring and Evaluation Office (DMEO)

DMEO was established by the Government of India on 18th September 2015, as an attached office of the NITI Aayog by merging the erstwhile Program EvaluationOffice and Independent Evaluation Office. To ensure that DMEO is able to function independently, it has been given separate budgetary allocations and manpower in addition to complete functional autonomy. The Programme Evaluation Organization (PEO) was established by the Government of India in October 1952 with a specific task of evaluating the community development programmes and other intensive area development schemes which were being funded by the Government of India. It worked as a division of the erstwhile Planning Commission and was headed by an Adviser (PEO) who reported to the Member, Planning Commission. PEO had 15 field units (7 Regional Evaluation Offices + 8 Project Evaluation Offices) located across the country. In an effort to accord more functional autonomy to the programme evaluation mechanism in the country, the Government of India established the Independent Evaluation Office (IEO) in November, 2010. The IEO was headed by a Director General, equivalent to a Union Minister of State in rank and status.

 

 

Press Release _ Nu Republic® Unleashes Starboy® 6 Wireless Headphones: Own the Spotlight. Feel the Bass

 Nu Republic® Unleashes Starboy® 6 Wireless Headphones: Own the Spotlight. Feel the Bass

“The latest in the Starboy® franchise by Nu Republic ® - this is definitely the boldest Headphones in the game—Built to Turn Heads & Drop Jaws”

National, 12 February 2025: Nu Republic®, India’s trailblazing lifestyle tech brand, is proud to introduce Starboy® 6 Wireless Headphones, a head-turning masterpiece built for those who dare to stand out. With one-of-a-kind LED lights, an ultra-cool design, and powerful sound, Starboy 6 is here to redefine the headphone experience. 

These visually striking headphones aren’t just about aesthetics—they pack a punch with Nu Republic’s signature X-Bass® technology, delivering deep, dynamic sound that fuels every beat. With Dual Mode (Game/Music) for seamless switching and ENC for crystal-clear calls, Starboy® 6 ensures an immersive audio experience, whether you're vibing to your playlist or dominating the game.

Starboy® 6’s ultra-responsive flip mic lets you take the spotlight—crisp, clear, and always on point. 

Whether you're gaming, streaming, or making power moves, your voice comes through loud and legendary.

With Dual Pairing, you can switch effortlessly between devices, while 42ms low latency in Game Mode gives you a competitive edge. The intuitive button controls make switching tracks and adjusting volume effortless, while the lightweight, ergonomic design ensures all-day comfort.

Experience next-level comfort with memory foam earcups and a premium, breathable vegan leather finish on these wireless headphones. The memory foam molds to your ears, ensuring a perfect fit that cancels noise without pressure, while the vegan leather adds a luxe touch—soft, durable, and eco-friendly. All-day comfort meets style, perfect for long listening sessions.

Ready to light up your vibe and own the spotlight? With a head-turning design and a playtime that matches your energy, Starboy 6® is more than just headphones—it’s a statement. Enjoy 30 hours* of non-stop power and switch seamlessly between Game and Music modes for the ultimate audio experience., 

Nu Republic® Starboy 6® Wireless Headphones are available at an unbeatable price of INR 2499/- on www.nurepublic.co, setting a new benchmark in tech-meets-style audio gear.

Outstanding Features

• Nu Republic Starboy® 6 Wireless Headphones : 
• LED Lights – One-of-a-kind, bold & vibrant breathing LED lights to turn heads when you sport your coolest look. 
• Flip Mic – Unleash your voice with clarity
• Dual Pairing – Connect & switch between two devices seamlessly
• 42ms Low Latency – for ultra-smooth gaming experience
• ENC (Environmental Noise Cancellation)– Crystal-clear calls & communication
• 30 Hours* Playtime – All-day power for non-stop action
• Dual Mode (Game/Music) – Switch between immersive gaming & dynamic music
• X-Bass® Technology – Deep bass, crisp highs, and immersive audio
• Button Controls – Effortless control at your fingertips
• All-Day Comfort – Lightweight and ergonomic fit, with vegan leather + memory foam cushions. 

About Nu Republic®

Nu Republic® is an industry disruptor in lifestyle technology, blending electronics, music, and fashion into one powerful ecosystem. With a product portfolio spanning wireless earbuds, smartwatches, power banks, speakers, and innovative charging solutions, Nu Republic® is committed to making high-style attainable and high-tech affordable. Endorsed by iconic power couple Farhan Akhtar and Shibani Akhtar, the brand is synonymous with self-expression and next-gen innovation. For more details, visit www.nurepublic.co.

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