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SCEH: Holding up the right to sight and doing the cross-subsidy model right
The right to sight, if you think about it, is embedded within Article 21 of the Constitution of India guaranteeing one’s fundamental right to ‘life and personal liberty’. The expression ‘life’ in Article 21 means a life with dignity and not mere survival
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CEQUE: Ensuring that teachers learn, so that children learn
Armed with around 440 masks and 5 litres of sanitiser, Bapu Munghate, a government school teacher in Mahawada village, a remote area of Gadchiroli in eastern Maharashtra, tried to convince the gram panchayat members to allow him to teach the children there, despite
CEAT: Trying to talk ‘responsible travel’, but with a fleet of 9 vehicles
The fleet – comprising 9 vehicles (including the Thar, Fortuner and Gypsy”none in the ‘environmentally friendly’ category) and 25 participants – will cover various territories in Ladakh, with the first one planned from August 1 to 14, and the second from August 21
ONGC: Helping homegrown handicrafts
The energy major is supporting 15 projects focused on the country’s indigenous handicrafts, in line with the government’s observance of ‘Azadi ka Amrit Mahotsav’. Observing India’s 75th year of independence, PSUs under the petroleum ministry have undertaken 75 projects to commemorate each year
JSW Foundation: All for restoring the glory of Kashmir’s Mughal Gardens
The Foundation has signed an MoU with the Government of Jammu & Kashmir to restore the historic gardens, located at Shalimar Bagh and Nishat Bagh. While JSW Foundation will extend technical and financial support, the Government will provide assistance and continue to
The consumer in me, the me in this consumer
Some quick notes on being a conscious consumer
If there’s one thing I know with ever more certainty today, it is that I could know much better about stuff. The good stuff, you know. The kind of stuff that is good for the earth. The kind of good that is way
Dabur: Starting to say no to paper cartons
As a first major step in this direction, the company is removing outer paper cartons from its flagship Ayurvedic toothpaste brand Dabur Red Paste. The carton-free, ecofriendly packaging is being rolled out in key modern trade outlets in a joint initiative with Reliance
Cisco and Social Alpha: Putting a grant of Rs 2 crore behind five agritech startups
The grant is part of a programme called Krishi Mangal that will support startups working on solutions for smallholder farmers. The five startups selected for the programme have developed agritech innovations across supply-chain traceability powered by blockchain, data analytics for crop management, energy-efficient
(Re)Imagining 2030
When the SDGs are expected to be a reality, more or less
Let’s hope it’s more rather than less. Because there’s no exaggerating what’s at stake here, but also because the year 2030 has become a milestone that the world is collectively moving towards, some more enthusiastically and seriously than others but these sentiments hopefully
Tetra Pak: It’s time to manage those used carton packs
Food processing and packaging solutions company Tetra Pak has tied up with Finish Society, a solid-waste management NGO, to increase collection of used carton packages in Udaipur. The NGO will be working closely with the Municipal Corporation of Udaipur to recover used packs