Spice Mobility Launches India’s First ‘ AndroidLand ‘ Experience Stores in Bangalore & Noida. October 2013 .

Spice Mobility launched the first 2 AndroidLand stores in India. The two exclusively branded AndroidLand retail experience stores are located in Koramangala, Bangalore and The Great India Place Mall in Noida.

These first-of-its kind multi-location stores will offer Android experiences created for its customers and will showcase a range of Android devices, services and accessories. A wide variety of interactive live demo units that customers can play with and experience the Android platforms are readily available in these dedicated AndroidLand stores.

Spice Mobility, a leading Mobile Technology Retailer in India has a chain of 650 plus stores across India. To these retail locations, two additional AndroidLand retail outlets have been added, the first of many more planned across India.

Tata Motors Launches its First CNG Passenger Car. October 2013 .

Tata Motors Limited launched its first factory fitted compressed natural gas (CNG) passenger car in Ahmedabad – the Nano ‘eMax’. Tuesday – October 08th, 2013.

The new bio-fuel product, can run on gasoline as well as CNG. It comes equipped with a 32-litre CNG tank and has a claim of 36km per Kg fuel efficiency.

This is the first of the 5 brands in the CNG eMax series to be rolled out by Tata Motors. Indigo and Indica are likely to be the subsequent ones in the plan.

First Indian and First Player from Asia to reach Landmark 50,000 runs in all Formats of Cricket. October 2013 .

Sachin Tendulkar becomes the first Indian and first cricket player from Asia to reach and cross 50,000 runs in all formats of competitive cricket. With this feat he also becomes the 16th player ever to reach this landmark. October 05th, 2013.

Event: CLT20 : Mumbai Indian’s beat Trindad and Tobago : In the semi-final, on Saturday Oct 05th, Mumbai Indians beat Trinidad and Tobago by 6 wickets and 5 balls to spare. Chasing 154 for victory the IPL Champions rode on a brilliant half century from Dwayne Smith 59, and an elegant 35 from Tendulkar.

In this knock Sachin Tendulkar the master blaster reached yet another landmark and became the 16th player and the first in Asia and the first Indian to reach 50,000 runs in cricket.

The 40-year old Tendulkar now has 50,000 runs in 953 competitive matches, which include 551 List A matches, 307 first-class matches and 95 T20 games.

Coming Up: The maestro is also standing on the cusp of another rare feat of becoming the first player in the history of the game to play 200 Test Matches.

The complete records of Sachin Tendulkar : coming up soon.

First Indian Elected to Board of Governors of the CFA Institute . October 2013 .

Sunil B. Singhania has been elected to serve on the Board of Governors of CFA Institute for a term of 3 years making him the first from India.

Singhania is among the 18-member Board of Governors that represent 11 countries – Australia, Canada, China, India, Japan, Singapore, Switzerland, Turkey, UAE, UK and the USA.

Sunil Singhania serves as the Chief Investment Officer (Equity Investments) of Reliance Capital Asset Management.

He graduated in Commerce from Bombay University. Then completed his Chartered Accountancy ICAI for Delhi. Subsequently his CFA. Additionally he completed a course for Derivatives conducted by the Bombay Stock Exchange.

Amongst other accompolishments, he also sat on the ‘Standards & Practice Council’ of the CFA Institute,USA for 6 years. Being the first and the only thus far based in India.

Sunil was the Founder of the Indian Association of Investment Professionals, the CFA India Society and was its President for a continuous period of 6 years.

CFA Institute : Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) Institute is the global association of Investment Professionals. The Board of Governors is the Senior most body of CFA Institute, with ultimate responsibility for its strategy and management.