MAV Marks Children’s Day with Anti-Vaping Awareness Drive at Delhi School
To celebrate Children’s Day at Harcourt Butler Senior Secondary School, Mothers Against Vaping (MAV) launched an awareness campaign about the increase in electronic cigarette and nicotine product use amongst school-aged children. The event was conducted under MAV’s “Our Future, Our Fight” initiative and
#WashTheDabba Campaign Wins Anthem Award for Safe Plastic Disposal
The #WashTheDabba initiative launched by BBC Media Action to promote safer and more respectful methods of disposing of waste in Bengaluru has earned international acclaim with two awards at The Anthem Awards in 2025, one Gold for Sustainability, Environment and Diversity, and
10 years of CSR (Act) in India – Part 1 of a short story (with the bigger picture)
To begin with If you have to handpick anecdotes, stories, people, developments, incidents… to tell a story summing up what happened in this particular domain in the past decade, a domain that you have been actively involved in and one where you are
LiveLoveLaugh takes its rural mental health programme to Chhindwara in MP; on course to reach 40,000 beneficiaries in next 5 years
As the organisation fine-tunes its mental health intervention model so as to make a holistic impact on persons with mental illness (PWMI) and their caregivers, it too has evolved over time, going from a focus on awareness to enabling access and affordability. This
A ‘sustainable lighting’ shop it is
The first Philips Solar Light Hub has just been launched in India by Signify (Euronext: LIGHT), and the company claims that over 100 solar lighting products are on display in this exclusive retail store aimed at encouraging a wider use of solar lighting
Sustainability initiatives round-up, April – May
Nestlé India will chart a green journey with LNG-powered fleet The fleet will comprise 46 feet long containers custom-created by GreenLine, pioneers of LNG-fuelled heavy trucking logistics in India. The containers will be deployed between Nestlé’s factory in Sanand, Gujarat, and Bhiwandi, Maharashtra,
Airborne: India’s first commercial flight powered by a blend of ‘indigenous’ sustainable aviation fuel
AirAsia India flight I5-767 departed from Pune to New Delhi using a blend of indigenous sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) supplied by Indian Oil Corporation Ltd (IOCL) in partnership with Praj Industries Ltd (Praj). Union Minister of Petroleum and Natural Gas, Hardeep Singh Puri,
UltraTech is using fertiliser-industry byproduct, transporting it from source via coastal waterways
In this first-of-its-kind initiative in India, UltraTech Cement, the cement flagship company of Aditya Birla Group (ABG), transported a phosphogypsum consignment of 57,000 metric tons (MT) via inland and coastal waterways. The bulk cargo carrier journeyed from Paradeep port in Odisha to the
The sound of music (is for everyone)
Quite unbelievable but it’s true, that in India we have the highest number of children born with severe auditory impairment: on average, 4 newborns in 1,000 births cannot hear. And every year millions of babies get added to our demography. Fortunately, modern biotechnology
Financial literacy and access to services for marginalised communities: DBS Foundation on the job
In partnership with Haqdarshak Empowerment Solutions (HESPL), DBS Foundation has undertaken a social protection and financial literacy programme aimed at marginalised citizens across India, including daily-wage earners, domestic workers, farm workers, sanitation workers and micro-entrepreneurs. The programme will educate 2,00,000 beneficiaries (70% women)