Author: CB Bureau

Pharma major Lupin along with Rotary Club, Mumbai, announced a joint anti-TB campaign – on 24 March, marked as World TB Day – to create awareness about TB as well as detect and combat the disease in Mumbai. Under this campaign, TB camps

Mondelez India announced its national community initiative Shubh Aarambh to address the development needs of children by promoting healthy and active lives. The programme is expected to impact close to 200,000 beneficiaries across 5 states over the next 3 years.   Shubh Aarambh

LG Electronics (LG) has become the world’s first to receive Certified Emission Reduction (CER) credits in the appliance industry, awarded by the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) project encouraged by United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC).  Established at the Kyoto Protocol, the

As part of its social convergence initiative, Ingersoll Rand has partnered with Sankara Eye Hospital, Bengaluru, for a community rural outreach programme called Gift of Vision. The programme with a special focus on preventive and curable blindness will help economically disadvantaged people in remote

The water-conservation efforts of Vedanta led to recycling of nearly 34 million cubic metres (34 billion litres) – which is 22 per cent of water used – during April 2014″January 2015, claimed the company in its media release.   ‘Water conservation and its

In an effort to recognize and honour outstanding achievements in the reporting on women’s issues, Diageo felicitates journalists through Women’s Empowerment (WE) Journalism Awards. Part of Diageo’s Plan W, the awards honour print, broadcast and online journalists across six categories and also chooses

The Indian Beauty and Hygiene Association (IBHA) undertook a unique Zero-Waste Sachet Recycling pilot project and collected about 600 kilograms of sachet waste in Mumbai in 2014. The waste will be recycled to produce oil and carbon.    ‘This project is a first for the industry in looking at ways to reduce our carbon

Ministry of Skill Development & Entrepreneurship (MSDE), National Skill Development Corporation (NSDC) and Wadhwani Foundation have announced a partnership aimed to catalyse Government of India’s new initiatives on skill development and entrepreneurship. Key areas of collaboration include creating specific programmes on entrepreneurship education

Inaugurating a corporate social responsibility centre – The CSR Hub – at Indian Institute of Entrepreneurship (IIE) in Guwahati, Minister of State for Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSME) Giriraj Singh expressed his hope that corporate groups would contribute towards economic development of

LG Electronics has been named one of the world’s most sustainable corporations in its industry sector in the 2015 Global 100 Most Sustainable Corporations in the World Index by Corporate Knights. The company has also been recognized as the most sustainable in 2015 Sustainability Yearbook