ACC goes Green – introduces industry-first Environmental Product Declaration (EPD) for all blended Cement Products
PRESS RELEASE ACC Limited, has become the first Indian cement company to publish an Environmental Product Declaration (EPD) for all of its blended cement products manufactured across all of its 17 cement plants. Beginning June 07, 2018, leading ACC cement brands namely ACC Suraksha Power, ACC Concrete+ Xtra Strong, ACC Gold Water Shield, ACC HPC […]
Genpact Partners with Akshaya Patra to #FeedAMillion
PRESS RELEASE Genpact (NYSE: G) a global professional services firm focused on delivering digital transformation, is partnering with Akshaya Patra to fight classroom hunger. Through this initiative, Genpact and Akshaya Patra is providing nutritious and well-balanced meals to one million school students in government and government-aided schools across India. Poor nutrition affects the physical and […]
Union Minister of State, Corporate Affairs and PwC India Foundation inaugurates solar lights in Khariya Sodha village, Pali
PRESS RELEASE Shri P.P. Chaudhary, Hon’ble Minister of State, Law & Justice and Ministry of Corporate Affairs, Government of India, inaugurated solar street lights that have been installed in Khariya Sodha village in Pali district of Rajasthan, underscoring PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) India Foundation’s commitment towards the underprivileged section of society that has limited access to reliable […]
India Global Economy’s Bright Spot
NEWS India is one of the most investor-friendly economies in the world. Investors look for growth and macro-economic stability. They want political stability and a supportive regulatory framework to ensure protection of their investment. From the point of larger scale of operations and higher value addition, an investor is also attracted by a large domestic […]
Oh, the Humanity!
POPULATION MATTERS As India brims and slowly spills over its edges with its ever increasing population, we are faced, and must deal with the cruel irony of our precious human resource becoming the monster that brings down our economy. For lack of a politer analogy, there is nothing more of the essence than finding a […]
Ghariyals Are Back In Gandak
INITIATIVE The mythological ghariyals are back in Gandak. The world famous Harihar Kshetra Mela at Sonpur in Bihar on the banks of Gandak is held to commemorate the mythological tale of Lord Vishnu coming to the aid of an elephant whose leg had been caught in the jaws of a hariyal in the Gandak river. […]
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Saving Environment
INITIATIVE To save environment from the abuse of drugs, the government has decided to ban production of such formulations which was being used to enhance dairy and vegetable productions. Almost a month after banning import of Oxytocin formulations, the Government has prohibited the private sector from producing the drug, a move aimed to curb its […]
Power Of Cruel Bomb
NUCLEAR THREAT The scars of devastation and cruelty imprinted on the land of Hiroshima and Nagasaki never fail to make one drown into the ordeals of the past which still release a sense of tremour in the people and also how the nuclear power was used as an aid to vandalize the human instinct. During […]
UN India & Global Compact Network India (GCNI) outline Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) : A Blueprint for Action
EVENT Global Compact Network India (GCNI), a local arm of the United Nations Global Compact, New York along with UN India organized 13th edition of its annual flagship event in Bengaluru on the 8th of June, 2018. The overlying theme for the event focused on ‘Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs): A Blueprint for Action’. It was […]