Dubai: Stan Ageira to Lead Daijiworld Middle East FZE
Daijiworld Media Network - Dubai
Dubai, Apr 28 : Daijiworld.com, the rapidly growing webportal connecting people of the west coast of India and the world, has achieved another milestone in its 10-year journey in the field of internet media.
Daijiworld, which completed ten glorious years in the month of January 2011 has set up its first overseas office in Dubai under the name 'Daijiworld Middle East FZE'.
Though the office has been operational since January 1, 2011, it will be officially launched on Friday April 29 during 'Daiji Dubai' Konkani Writers Forum's 12th anniversary function at Sheikh Rashid Auditorium, Dubai.
In a brief ceremony, the office will be symbolically launched by NRI entrepenuer Ronald Colaco.
Sudhir Shetty, COO of UAE Exchange and Herman Lewis, CEO of 105.4 FM Radio Spice will be the guests of honour.
Stan Ageira, well-known for his Konkani short stories and novels worldwide, who is also popular among Daijiworld.com readers for his English short stories column 'Red Chillies', will lead the Middle East operation as franchise owner. He is primarlity responsible for all the commercial activities within Middle East countries.
Daijiworld's main office is based in Emporium Complex, Kankanady, Mangalore, with over 35 full-time newsdesk correspondents, reporters and support staff across the twin districts. There are also about 60 freelancers around the country.
Daijiworld also has another franchise office based in Udupi under the leadership of Kishoo Barkur, operational since July 2008.
With an estimated readership of about 3,00,000 from around the world, Daijiworld has been rated as one of the fastest growing Indian portal worldwide. The website inaugurated by Ronald Colaco on Jan 11, 2001 had its first office in Mangalore in March 2004. Later, the solely-owned portal by Walter Nandalike became a Private Limited Company with Rohan Monteiro, Victor D'Souza, Lawrence D'Souza and Melvyn Rodrigues as its directors.
In February 2009, a new era in coastal journalism started with the introdution of 'Daijiworld Weekly', the first English language weekly print magazine in Karnataka. Daijiworld Weekly has achieved tremendous growth and recently completed two glorius years, under the editorialship of Hemacharya. The Weekly has a dedicated office in Bendurwell, Mangalore.
Soon, there will be representative offices of Daijiworld in Mumbai, Goa and Bangalore.
The ball is also set to roll for Daijiworld's dream project of Kannada satellite TV channel, with uplinking from Mangalore. The project will enable Kannadigas worldwide to connect back on real time with the latest news, information and entertainment right in their homes.
About Stan Ageira
Stan Ageira was born and bought up in Mulki, a town near Mangalore. Stan is well-known in the field of Konkani literature. His first short story was published in 1975 when he was barely 14 and as on date he has written over 250 short stories and 18 novels in Konkani.
His father, the late Sgt Ligoury Ageira had served the Indian Air Force for 35 years. Stan completed his primary education from Bethany convent, high school from Government Junior College, BCom from Mysore University and MBA from IBAM New Delhi. He began his professional career in sales with Godrej Soaps Mumbai branch in the early eighties before moving to Dubai in the nineties.
Presently he stays in Dubai with his wife Yvonne and kids Sean and Elton.
His stint in Dubai began as export manager with Fine Hygienic, and later in 1997 he became the regional manager (Middle East) for Asia’s largest and world’s fifth largest paper and pulp producer, Indonesian giant 'Asia Pulp & Paper'. During his services he was given the opportunity of travelling around the globe, including ALL the countries of Middle East, part of Asia, Far East, Africa, Europe, US and Canada. Before joining hands with daijiworld.com, he was working as deputy general manager for UAE-based Al Reyami Graphics for their paper and board division.
He has been recognized and conferred awards by the Konkani Bhasha Mandal, Goa and Konkani Sahitya Academy, Karnataka for his novels. He has published works in Konkani, Kannada and English. He won an award for his novel 'Badlanatllo Ganv' by Konkani Basha Mandal in 1989. His Konkani novel 'Nalisai' bagged the Karnataka Sahitya Academy award in 1995 and hiscollection of short stories in Konkani 'Tambdi Mirsaang' published in 2006 was selected for the Karnataka Sahitya Academy Award.
His short stories have been published in magazines like 'Woman's Era' and 'Alive', which are being published from New Delhi. His short stories in English are also available in www.daijiworld.com's specially dedicated column 'Red Chillies'. Twenty stories published in daijiworld.com’s exclusive section were selected by US publisher Raider Publishing International and published under the title ‘Tea, Coffee & Cheesecake' in 2010.
Stan Ageira can be contacted on mobile : 00971 -50 6597629 / email : dubai@daijiworld.com