As India continues to battle the pandemic, the economic impact has been devastating on our vulnerable communities, exacerbated by schools being shut and directly impacting children who depended on the Mid-Day Meal they received every day. To counter this problem, Akshaya Patra has begun to deliver Happiness Bags to children enrolled in government schools. Every Bag contains dry rations, educational ... Read More »
The state government of Telangana has started pitching for ‘Make in Telangana’ initiative and has set out its vision of doubling investments to pharma, healthcare and life sciences sectors to $100 billion by 2030, by attracting investors from across the globe. Advocating state government’s vision, Shakthi Nagappan, director of life sciences, government of Telangana, said that in the next 10 ... Read More »
“It is not merely that the world is bettered by saving, replacing, and multiplying trees. It is that an aim of this kind becomes an impulse towards developing a mood and an outlook which will increasingly make it natural to think for the future, for other people, for generations yet unborn. Planting a tree is a symbol of a looking-forward ... Read More »
India needs a holistic and conducive ecosystem to rebuild its active pharmaceutical ingredient (API) manufacturing capabilities, as high dependence on a single source can be a cause of concern in emergency-like situations, PwC India said on Thursday. Dependence on China for APIs has been an ongoing concern for the Indian pharma industry. Around 50 per cent of the critical APIs ... Read More »
The state government of Telangana has directed all healthcare institutions and municipal administration authorities of Hyderabad to strictly abide by the Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB) guidelines while disposing off COVID-19 related waste generated by hospitals and by people living in home quarantine. A joint study conducted by the Center for Cellular and Molecular Biology (CCMB) and Indian Institute of ... Read More »
There is a reason why the 3 R’s are ordered Reduce, Reuse & Recycle.Reduce comes first because itis the most important thing that you can do to live a more sustainable lifestyle.Recycling & Reusing will help slow the growth of landfills, and cut down on the amount of raw materials or natural resources used in creating new products, by reducing ... Read More »
Binish Desai is a Gujarat-based innovator popularly known as the Recycle Man of India. He is the founder of the company BDream which is focused on designing technologies to recycle industrial waste to make sustainable building material. After his earlier innovation, P-Block bricks, that were made from waste produced in paper mills, he has come up with another similar product — P-Block ... Read More »
DocVita is now live with a service offering which is a virtual consultation which includes an in-person follow-up at no extra cost, if needed. Online services are accessible pan India, and in-person services are currently available in Indore. The company has plans to launch these in-person services in Mumbai, Bengaluru and Delhi by September 2020. DocVita is gaining overwhelming response ... Read More »
Upwards of 70 per cent of the waste produced by an average Indian home originates in the kitchen. The kitchens in our homes have a big carbon footprint. They are the space where we guzzle a lot of energy, use a large amount of freshwater and add to the problem of single-use plastic. If you are taking the first steps towards ... Read More »
Pune-based automotive manufacturing company, Reddy Customs has set its target to manufacture about 200 to 300 ambulances in financial year 2020-21. These ambulances will be classified into A, C, and D categories – medical first responder, basic life support ambulance and advance life support ambulance respectively. These ambulances are going to be built under Automotive Research Association of India (ARAI) ... Read More »
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