G Square Offers Discounts Under ‘Dream Land for Real Heroes’ Scheme

Chennai, 14 May 2025: In an effort to pay tribute to the brave hearts defending our  borders, G Square, the largest player in the plotted development space from Tamil Nadu, has announced an exclusive and flat discount of 15% to all serving and retired personnel of the armed forces. The offer applies on all its premium plots across key cities in South India.

The offer under the ‘Dream Land For Real Heroes Scheme’, can be availed by all serving and ex-servicemen of the Indian Armed Forces. This would include the Army, the Navy and the Air Force. Immediate family members (such as spouse or children) can initiate the purchase process, provided the registration is in their name. Those interested, however, will have to furnish a valid Defence Service ID proof at the time of booking.

Bala Ramajeyam, Founder and Managing Director, G Square Realtors, said, “India’s defence personnel have made great personal sacrifices and dedicated their lives to the nation. Through this ‘Dream Land For Real Heroes Scheme’, we at G Square are proud to enable them to move closer to owning a home, not just as a reward for their service, but as a meaningful investment in their family’s future. This initiative is our small way of honouring the real warriors who fight for our freedom. We hope this empowers them to invest in their dream home with pride and privilege.”

G Square has transformed the plotted development landscape in South India by offering fully developed plots with world-class amenities, clear titles, strategic locations and ready- to-construct infrastructure. Their projects are spread across key cities such as Chennai, Hyderabad, Coimbatore, Madurai, Tirunelveli, Tuticorin, Pollachi, Trichy, Hosur, Mysuru, Ballari, Dindigul, Ambur, Theni, and Udumalpet.

Exhicon Events Media Solutions Ltd. reports bumper results for FY 2024-25

Mumbai, May 14, 2025 – India’s first and only 360° solution provider company for Exhibitions, Tradeshows & Event Management, Exhicon Events Media Solutions Ltd., reported a stellar set of numbers for the financial year ending March 31, 2025. The BSE-listed company, which operates in exhibitions, events and media services sector, has delivered record profitability, solid revenue growth and achieved a debt-free balance sheet.

On a consolidated basis, Exhicon Events Media Solutions Ltd achieved its revenue for FY 2024–25 jump by more than 62% to Rs 143.51 crore from Rs 88.46 crore in FY 2023-24 while its EBITDA (Earnings Before Interest, Tax, Depreciation and Amortisation) shot up by 74.55% to Rs 35.12 crore from Rs 20.12 crore in the same period, with its EBITDA margin at an impressive 24.48%.

The company’s PAT (Profit After Tax) more than doubled, recording an increase of 113% in FY 2024–25 to Rs 30.26 crore, from Rs 14.23 crore in FY 2023-25.

On a standalone basis, Exhicon Events Media Solutions Ltd saw its revenue jump over 69% in FY 2024–25, to Rs 69.67 crore, from Rs 41.18 crore in FY 2023-24 while its PAT, on a standalone basis, nearly doubled to Rs 12.10 crore in FY 2024–25, from Rs 6.31 crore in FY 2023-24.

Debt-Free Status Achieved
The company also achieved an unparalleled financial milestone in FY 2024–25 as it became 100% debt-free as of 31st March 2025, further reinforcing its long-term sustainability and readiness for future expansion.

Commenting on the company’s performance, Mr Sushil Shah, CFO, Exhicon Events Media Solutions said: “This has been a breakthrough year for Exhicon with strong growth across all verticals, resulting in higher margins. Moreover, our clean and debt-free balance sheet demonstrates the resilience and scalability of our business model. We are now well-positioned for aggressive but sustainable growth.”

Future Outlook
With a robust pipeline, strong demand for integrated event solutions, and a debt-free status, Exhicon is set to accelerate its domestic and international expansion while maximizing shareholder value. The company last month also approved a strategic capital outlay of Rs 50 crore for the design, development and deployment of temporary and semi-permanent event structures. This will be used to procure and commission semi-permanent modular event venues, large-span hangars and super structures, indoor pre-fab maxima and octanorm systems, portable hospitality suites, rest rooms, box offices and registration arenas, and modular staging and rigging solutions.

Justdial data shows surge in cooling solutions as summer heats up

Mumbai: As the heat intensifies, a significant surge in online searches for cooling solutions indicates a growing public demand for relief. Analysis from Justdial, India’s No.1 local search engine, comparing search activity between March and April of 2024 and the same period in 2025, reveals some striking increases nationwide.

Mumbai is experiencing a substantial spike in interest, with a remarkable 58% increase in overall searches for AC and water cooler services within the metro cities. This demand is even more pronounced in specific categories within Mumbai, with searches for HVAC contractors soaring by 320% and AC wholesalers seeing a massive 301% jump.

Delhi also shows a strong upward trend, with a 117% increase in searches for HVAC contractors and a notable 245% rise in searches for window AC dealers. Furthermore, Delhi leads the way in the portable AC category, witnessing an impressive 445% surge in related searches.

Several non-metro cities are also showing significant increases in demand for cooling solutions. Agra leads with an extraordinary 184% rise in searches, followed by Goa at 69%, and Chandigarh and Vadodara both experiencing a substantial 58% and 54% increase, respectively. Indore also registers a notable 43% growth in searches.

Looking at specific service categories nationwide, beyond the aforementioned HVAC contractors and AC wholesalers, window AC dealers are seeing a healthy 53% increase in searches. The demand for portable AC dealers has also risen by 43%.

While the most dramatic increases are seen in specific regions and categories, there is also a general upward trend across the country. Pan-India searches for AC and water cooler services have increased by 1%, and metro cities overall show a 2% rise. Non-metro cities also reflect this growing need with a 1% increase in related searches. In the water cooler segment, manufacturers are seeing a 15% increase in search interest, and dealers are experiencing a 14% rise.

Interest in AC dealers also reflects a growing demand for cooling solutions across various cities. Overall, searches for AC dealers have increased by 12%, with significant growth observed in Lucknow (103%), Mumbai (99%), Delhi (63%), Chennai (72%), and Bangalore (22%). These figures collectively highlight a widespread and growing need for cooling solutions as the summer season approaches and progresses. As temperatures continue to rise, these search trends highlight the proactive steps consumers are taking to ensure comfort during the warmer months ahead.

Celonis Showcases Latest Process Intelligence and AI Innovations at Next 2025

May 14th, 2025 – Celonis, a global leader in Process Mining, today at its Celonis:Next event, demonstrated how its Process Intelligence (PI) platform enables companies to maximize the ROI from their enterprise AI deployments—a necessity for success in a future where AI agents work alongside and support humans. Because just as humans need the right information to do their jobs, AI needs to understand the business. With updates to its AgentC suite, the acquisition of Orchestration Engine, and multiple platform advancements, Celonis showed how it provides the intelligence companies need to build effective AI agents, helps them orchestrate end-to-end business processes, and simplifies the deployment of PI and AI across the enterprise.

“AI is great for everyday tasks, like writing emails. But to provide maximum value for business, it needs to do things like telling you which customer deliveries are at risk and take automated action to reroute deliveries and notify logistics partners,” said Alex Rinke, co-CEO and co-founder of Celonis. “Celonis Process Intelligence makes this possible. It provides AI with the process knowledge and business context to make it effective in accomplishing business-critical tasks, like mitigating supply chain disruptions, optimizing inventory, and managing tariffs. That’s why we strongly believe that for enterprise use cases, ‘there’s no AI without PI’.”

PI + AI = Maximum ROI

The Process Intelligence Graph (PI Graph), which sits at the heart of the Celonis platform, brings together process data and business context to create a living digital twin of business operations. Celonis AgentC, a suite of AI agent tools, integrations, and partnerships, feeds the Process Intelligence from the PI Graph to AI agents, whether customers build them in leading AI platforms or leverage prebuilt agents from Celonis and its partners. 

Following the launch of AgentC at Celosphere in October 2024, the company unveiled significant upgrades to AgentC just six months later at Celonis:Next, including an extended Process Intelligence API that makes it easier to securely share PI context, metrics, and recommended actions with AI platforms such as Microsoft Copilot Studio, Amazon Bedrock, or Salesforce Agentforce.

But AI agents are just the latest among many tools that companies are using to automate and streamline tasks. Modern business processes involve an increasingly intricate web of system- and application-level automations, workflow automations, RPA bots, and manual activities that span multiple systems. But companies lack the ability to oversee and control all of these tools.

Celonis Orchestration Engine provides an intelligent orchestration layer that connects and coordinates tasks in a given process across all tools, systems and departments. Leveraging real-time Process Intelligence, companies can observe process workflows live and direct processes toward the outcomes they want to achieve. Orchestration Engine gives a new level of control and agility to companies as they adapt their workflows to an ever-changing world. Celonis has acquired Orchestration Engine from its partner Emporix and fully integrated it with the Celonis platform.

Celonis also announced enhancements to the tools that help customers build AI capabilities on Celonis, including:

  • Process Copilots in GA: Celonis Process Copilots are now generally available and can be used in collaboration tools like Slack and Microsoft Teams. Now Celonis’ customers’ employees can interact with their processes in their regular workspaces and get answers fast about what’s working and what blockers need their attention.

  • Annotation Builder in GA: The Celonis Annotation Builder, a no-code GenAI tool for recommending decisions, is now generally available. Static dashboards are a thing of the past — now Celonis analytics views show employees AI-generated recommendations for how to address issues and improve processes.

“Celonis’ AI capabilities have fundamentally improved our inventory management and maintenance response,” said Brian Dodson, Business Process Improvement Manager and Celonis Center of Excellence lead at Smurfit Westrock. “Our plant technicians can now ask their Process Copilot to locate and arrange transfers of spare parts from other plants, minimizing disruption and maximizing value by keeping our operations running smoothly.”

Celonis Solution Suites + Partner Apps: Everything enterprises need to leverage PI + AI

To enable faster deployment of PI and AI across every department in the enterprise, thereby accelerating process improvement and reducing time to value, Celonis introduced Celonis Solution Suites—comprehensive packages that combine connectors to critical systems, pre-defined process data and business context, AI-powered capabilities, and pre-built apps. Today, four Solutions Suites have been launched:

  • Supply Chain Solution Suite

  • Finance Solution Suite

  • Front Office Solution Suite

  • Sustainability Solution Suite

Celonis Solution Suites are already being used by leading consumer goods companies to deliver the best customer experience, even in the face of today’s supply chain disruption, complexities, and growing cost pressures. Celonis helped one organization quantify how many customer orders were being automatically rejected due to minimum order quantity thresholds. With the right insights, those orders could be bundled and filled instead of being rejected.

Enhancements across the Celonis platform

Celonis has made its Process Intelligence platform faster and easier to use with multiple advancements, including:

  • Process Intelligence Graph expansion: Celonis has expanded the PI Graph’s pre-built objects and events catalogue. Long-time Celonis customers can bring their existing data models into the PI Graph faster and simpler. And new version control features make it easier for customers to manage their individual PI Graph.

  • New Celonis Process Management API integration: Celonis Process Management unites process mining and modeling, bringing data on how processes should run, and how they actually run, together. With a new direct API integration, companies can now import process models into the Celonis Process Adherence Manager, getting unparalleled detail and accuracy in process adherence assessment—a capability unmatched in the market.

  • Microsoft Fabric integration: Celonis Process Intelligence is now available as a workload in Microsoft Fabric. Celonis‘ zero-copy integration with Fabric and the ability to embed Celonis Views into Fabric lets Microsoft users seamlessly embed process intelligence into solutions they’re building.

  • Process Mining innovation: A new event log builder lets users create, modify and explore event logs on the fly directly in Celonis Views without having to go back to the data model, write lines of SQL code, or create new sub-processes.

  • More intuitive and customizable Studio Views: New scalable View Modules make sure changes made to one View Module are automatically replicated anywhere it’s used. Performing deeper analysis is faster with new process visualizations and enhanced filtering options. And new scheduled reports let users share insights with key stakeholders on a daily, weekly, or monthly basis.

  • New PQL Editor: PQL is the language of Process Intelligence. The new PQL Editor is business context aware and continuously in sync with customer Knowledge Models.

“Alongside our partners, we continuously invest in our platform,” said Dan Brown, Chief Product Officer at Celonis. “With AgentC and our Process Intelligence API, we’re helping customers maximize the ROI of their AI deployments. Orchestration Engine enables stronger oversight and control of process workflows. And Solution Suites shorten time to value by making it faster and easier to deploy PI and AI across the enterprise.”

Most of the newly announced capabilities, including Process Copilot and Annotation Builder, are available for deployment immediately. Companies can explore these features and engage with the Celonis community at upcoming events like the Celonis Process Intelligence Days, Celonis: Next Product Forums, and Celosphere in Munich, November 4th-5th.

Prodigy Finance Flags Currency Volatility as Rising Concern for Study Abroad Aspirants

Currency volatility is becoming one of the biggest challenges for students planning to study abroad. When exchange rates fluctuate, the cost of tuition, housing, and everyday expenses can shift dramatically, often without warning. For students from countries where the local currency is weakening against the US dollar, pound, or euro, this can lead to serious financial strain, forcing them to either stretch their budgets or reconsider their plans.

Even minor shifts in exchange rates can significantly inflate tuition and living costs. This leads to substantial increases in the amount of home currency required to cover the same expenses, placing additional pressure on students already managing tight budgets.

“Students are doing all the right things like planning early and budgeting wisely, but currency depreciation can undo all that effort in an instant,” said Sonal Kapoor, Global Chief Business Officer at Prodigy Finance. “That’s why we’ve designed a loan solution that protects students from this very risk.”

Traditional education loans, typically disbursed in a student’s local currency, add another layer of uncertainty. If the value of the home currency drops between the time a loan is approved and when tuition is due, students may find themselves suddenly short of funds or facing higher repayments than planned. This unpredictability can cause significant stress and, in some cases, derail a student’s academic plans.

Prodigy Finance is addressing this challenge head-on by offering a solution designed specifically for international students. The lender provides loans directly in USD, GBP, and EUR, and disburses funds directly to universities. This shields students from the risks of currency depreciation and conversion losses, ensuring they know exactly how much they will receive and repay, regardless of what happens to their home currency during their studies.

Prodigy Finance offers education loans at interest rates that can be up to 3% lower than typical market rates, which range between 9.99% and 13.25%, depending on the applicant’s profile and loan type. This potential saving can significantly reduce the overall cost of studying abroad, easing long-term financial pressure on international students. 

Student loans are available without the need for collateral or a co-signer, and the application process is fully online, making it accessible to students from over 150 countries. Prodigy Finance also offers a new co-signer loan option for Indian students with even lower interest rates, starting from 8.35%. Moreover, a six-month grace period is also provided to allow full time students to find employment before repayments begin.

In a world where currency markets can change overnight and the value of money is never guaranteed, Prodigy Finance’s approach provides international students with stability, transparency, and real savings, helping them focus on their studies and future rather than worrying about exchange rates.