In a historic feat, 1.5 million volunteers from the state of Madhya Pradesh planted 66 million trees in just 12 hours to create a Guinness World Record. In the backdrop of pan India burning under the scorching summer heat and the environmentalists repeatedly emphasizing on the importance of growing trees, the efforts that are taken …
At this point, images of plastic waste-filled landscapes have managed to reach and horrify much of the general public. Plastic bag bans are proliferating in response. Now, bags made from alternative, biodegradable plastics are popping up in retail stores with regularity. But will those plastics actually biodegrade? It seems that they might not, or at …
Your “biodegradable” plastic bag might not actually biodegrade Read More »
Saju Talukdar, a 47-year-old commercial car driver, runs the Bir Birsha Munda Cloth Bank (BBMC) near Dimdima Tea Garden, nearly 100 km from Siliguri in the Alipurduar district of West Bengal. Though the clothes bank was inaugurated in January 2017, Saju has been collecting used clothes from people and distributing to the needy and elderly …
Bengal Driver Distributes 4000 Pairs of Clothes to the Needy, Elderly Every Week! Read More »
While business outcomes are easily measurable through the calculation of numbers such as sales and profit, return on investment and annual growth, quantifying the actual impact of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) programmes is not as straightforward. For one, business outcomes are objective in nature and relate to the linear measure of how much financial value …
The election officials in Goa have done their best to stay true to the stated mission of the Election Commission of India – “Leave No Voter Behind.” Special arrangements such as the provision of wheelchair taxis, manual magnifiers, Braille ballot papers, wheelchairs and ramps were made to encourage high participation of differently-abled individuals in the elections. But, …
