Category: Corporate

Cash Suvidha, a trade name of Usha Financial Services has announced its partnership with rural digitisation and commerce optimisation platform, StoreKing. This technology-enabled distribution platform is connecting small towns and villages across the country to a range of products and services, all via an app. Through this partnership, Cash Suvidha has successfully disbursed loans worth Rs 1 crore in just one month.   Going forward, the company plans to extend loans worth Rs 30-40Crore to over 2500 retailers per year. With its strong network of 47,000 stores across 10 states,…

Cheil WW India has launched Good Vibes app, the first-ever mobile app that enables two-way communication for the deafblind.   There are an estimated 6, 00,000 deafblind persons around the world. Many more remain unknown. Since 95% of what we learn is through our eyes and ears, the deafblind, who can neither hear nor see, are highly disadvantaged. While the progress of technology has touched our lives in unimaginable ways, the deafblind community has been left behind. For them, the only medium of interpersonal communication is Pro-tactile Sign Language, which…

Vodafone India has commemorated the 70th World Health Day by setting up basic healthcare examination facility at selected Vodafone stores for customers of Jaipur. Over 200 customers across Jaipur underwent basic medical tests related to Blood, Cardiac and Liver Health.   To digitally empower customers, Vodafone had roped in city based healthcare App, MeraPatient for this initiative. The Health awareness initiative was organized on the occasion of World Health Day and will continue on 9th April at select stores of the pink city viz Gaurav Tower, Raja Park, Chaura Rasta, Ajmer Road,…

Marking a new milestone on the path of its corporate philosophy – ‘Kyosei’, signifying ‘living and working together for the common good’, Canon India has announced the adoption of a new village under its flagship CSR initiative – ‘Adopt a Village’. Through this initiative, the organization has successfully been executing its commitment towards the community, across the country. The new village is adopted in the North region’s Maheshwari Village at Rewari district of Haryana.   Along with this initiative, Canon India also announces its association with Humana People to People…

Ambuja Cement has celebrated the World Water Day 2018 across its operations with great enthusiasm and zeal, thereby creating awareness about the importance of water and advocating for the sustainable management of water resources.   The celebrations held under the theme ‘Nature for Water’ were marked with a series of activities – ‘Run for Water’ marathons, rallies, experience sharing sessions and awareness talks in which scores of people from Ambuja operations and nearby communities participated. The teams of Ambuja CSR arm Ambuja Cement Foundation (ACF), which is celebrating its Silver…

Hinduja Global Solutions has announced that its subsidiary, HGS Population Health LLC, USA, has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire CMH Services Subsidiary LLC, USA, operating under the trade name of AxisPoint Health, a leading population health management company. The transaction is expected to close in the next 15 days.   AxisPoint Health offers industry-leading care management, nurse advice line and analytics services, including CarePoint, GuidePoint and Analytix. The company has around 400 employees including over 280 US registered nurses in the US providing condition and case management programs,…

RBS India in association with prominent technology corporates, Academia and government participation has setup an exclusive ‘By Invite Only’ platform ‘WomenInTech’ comprising of senior leaders and representatives from industry organisations with the agenda of working towards encouraging more women to take up careers in Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM) as a key career choice.   The forum was officially launched in the presence of Amo Kalar, Deputy Director, Trade Economics and Prosperity, British High Commission in Delhi today.   With 2.5-3 million new jobs predicted to be created by…

RB, (erstwhile Reckitt Benckiser) has announced the commission of its first solar powered factory in India, in the city of Mysore as part of Project Greenathon. The factory running on “GREEN POWER” forms an extension to RB’s continuous efforts to reach its worldwide Sustainability Targets. As of today, the factory meets 75% of the energy needs with solar energy and aims to be the first factory running on 100% green power in India, within couple of years.   This marks RB’s first power purchase agreement (PPA) in India which forms…

Secunderabad and Hyderabad Railway divisions (South Central Railways) have announced an exclusive partnership with Ola to facilitate last mile connectivity for the railway passengers.   Under the 3 year long partnership, Ola launched dedicated ‘Ola kiosks’ at 3 key railway stations to improve overall mobility experience, for lakhs of passengers who visit the railway stations daily. Through this partnership, passengers at the Secunderabad, Hyderabad Deccan and Kacheguda railway stations will now be able to also book a cab with the assistance of Ola representatives stationed at Ola kiosks within the station premises itself. Further, Ola Zones have…

Vodafone has announced the launch of a ground-breaking international future jobs programme “What will you be?”  to provide career guidance and access to training content in the digital economy for up to  5 million youth in India and 10 million young people across 18 countries by 2022. This Vodafone digital skills and jobs initiative is the largest of its kind in the world.   As part of this landmark initiative, Vodafone has developed Future Jobs Finder – a new online platform accessible to all youth for career guidance, access to relevant trainings…