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CSR NEWS The Bharat Ratna is the highest civilian award of the Republic of India, instituted in 1954. The award is conferred “in recognition of exceptional service/performance of the highest order”, without distinction of race, occupation, position, or sex. The recommendations for the Bharat Ratna are made by the Prime Minister to the President, with a maximum of three nominees being awarded per year. The 2019 Bharat Ratna award has been bestowed upon three great personalities, namely former President Pranab Mukherjee, Social worker Nanaji Deshmukh and singer Bhupen Hazarika. Nanaji Deshmukh and singer Bhupen Hazarika were awarded Bharat Ratna posthumously. Pranab Mukherjee served as the 13th President of India from 2012 until 2017. A veteran congressman, Pranab Mukherjee had held various key

CSR NEWS Success isn’t new to Priyanka Chopra. Ever since she won the Miss World pageant in 2000, she has been setting new milestones for herself. In a career spanning 13 years, she has won a National Award for her role in Fashion (2009), and has successfully ventured into the international arena with her music album, which saw the actress singing for the first time. Priyanka, successfully worked in American sitcom, Quantico and gear up for second seasonof this show. She is also roped in by the Baywatch cast to play a negative role in the film. The Hollywood film also stars Zac Efron, Alexandra Daddario and Dwayne Johnson. But this January,the actor took her tally of achievements to a

CSR NEWS Safe Water Network (SWN) and Honeywell India (NYSE: HON) announced the launch of the 25th Honeywell-funded iJal safe water station in Telangana to mark World Water Day. These 25 safe water stations are located in Karimnagar, Adilabad, Warangal, Khammam, and Nalgonda districts, and serve approximately 94,000 people in areas that lack safe drinking water.. The Honeywell-Safe Water Network initiative addresses a critical need in the region that suffers groundwater contamination from high levels of fluoride. Water and sanitation-related illnesses account for 70-80 percent of diseases in this area. They also have program to raise awareness about safe drinking water in the region.  Safe Water Network works with supporters like Honeywell to demonstrate that large-scale impact can be achieved

The President of India, Shri Pranab Mukherjee has congratulated Ms. P. V. Sindhu for winning a Silver Medal at the Rio Olympics. In his message the President said, “Hearty congratulations on creating history by winning for India a Silver Medal in the Women’s singles in Badminton at the 2016- Rio Olympics. The people of India rejoice with your family and you on the remarkable achievement. Your grit, mental strength and brilliant display today will inspire confidence amongst all Indian sportspersons that they can achieve the pinnacle of any sport at the international level. My best wishes are with you for all future endeavors”.

Having dedicated his life to extract metals from soil and leaves, Dr. Subhash Kadam knows their chemistry well! Dr. Subhash Kadam, Principal of Dalit Mitra Kadam Guruji Science & Arts College, Mangalwedha, Solapur, Maharashtra, an innocuous person but is known more for conducting and organizing state and national level seminars since 2005 on extraction of noble metals i.e. copper, silver, Gold, Rhodium and platinum. After he obtained doctorate in sciences from Shivaji University, Kolhapur, in 1978, Kadam got doctorate in Kinetics & Mechanism of oxidation of Imides by peroxidysulphate in presence of silver catalyst. After collecting nearly a thousand rock samples from various locales of Mangalwedha, he found that the soil is too rich in copper, gold and platinum. Thereafter

Nikesh Arora occupied top positions at Google joining SoftBank as President and COO. The frenetic pace of investing has earned Arora and SoftBank a special place in the hearts of Indian entrepreneurs. Arora is considered by his colleagues as a team person. A globetrotter, Arora is, however, an Indian at heart. He has Indian food at home, his family speaks in Hindi. Nikesh Arora has a penchant for making news. When he left Google, one of the fastest growing companies in the world, in mid-2014, to join Japan’s SoftBank Corp as Vice Chairman of the group and CEO of SoftBank Internet and Media Inc, it definitely made news. Arora left Google, resigning from the post of Senior Vice President and

SUCCESS STORIES Bobby Jindal was appointed Assistant Secretary for the Department of Health and Human Services under the George W. Bush administration. He is the first Indian-American to be elected Governor in the United States. “We should help developing nations like China and India curb their exponentially increasing consumption of oil and natural gas, which is driving world prices higher.”— Bobby Jindal Born in 1971, Piyush ‘Bobby’ Jindal started out in politics while attending Brown University from where he graduated with honours. He then worked as an intern for Congressman Jim McCrery. In 1991, Jindal went to Oxford University as a Rhodes Scholar to study health-care systems. In 1996, he landed his first job in public service, becoming the secretary

SUCCESS STORIES Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella joined the company in 1992 and quickly became known as a leader who could span the breadth of technology and business to transform some of the company’s biggest product offerings. “Nadella is Microsoft’s cloud master and has a firm handle on what it takes to run Bing, Office365, Skype and Xbox Live. He’s liked and respected throughout the industry.” — Ashlee Vance  Indian-American Satya Narayana Nadella, 49, who is the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Microsoft, was born in Anantapur in Andhra Pradesh in 1967. His father, Bukkapuram Nadella Yugandher, was a senior Indian Administrative Service (IAS) officer, and was with the Prime Minister’s Office while P.V. Narasimha Rao was the Prime Minister.Growing up,

SUCCESS STORIES The India-born Chairperson and CEO of PepsiCo, the second largest food and beverage business chain in the world, has consistently figured among the world’s 100 most powerful women. “One of the world’s biggest public health challenges, a challenge fundamentally linked to our industry: obesity.” Indra Krishnamurthy Nooyi, the India-born American business executive and the current Chairperson and CEO of PepsiCo, the second largest food and beverage business in the world, has consistently figured in the world’s 100 most powerful women. In 2004, she was ranked 13 in the list of Forbes world’s 100 Most Powerful Women. Nooyi was born in Madras in 1955, and was educated in Holy Angels Anglo Indian School. She got her bachelor’s degree from