PRESS RELEASE Penn State hosts U.S.-India Higher Ed Research Conference October 10-11, 2011 High Profile Think-Tank to discuss opportunities and challenges associated with higher education in India Mumbai, India: October 11, 2011. The U.S.-India Higher Education Research Conference hosted by Penn State University was inaugurated by Michael Adewumi on University Campus today. The two day...
Mumbai, August 11, 2011: Nicorette®, the leading provider of smoking cessation products will launch the first Facebook application aimed at helping the 120 million Indian smokers (according to the Global Adult Tobacco Survey 2009-2010), quit the habit of smoking. To be launched on the Indian Independence Day, the new Nicorette® Facebook application ‘Nicorette® Support’ is designed to help Indians...
Mumbai, India, July 7, 2011—IFC, a member of the World Bank Group, is helping Jain Irrigation Systems Limited in India set up Sustainable Agro-Commercial Finance Limited, a non-banking finance company, that will provide loans to Indian small-scale farmers to help them install micro-irrigation systems and improve productivity. The project is expected to benefit more than 600,000 farmers with...
New Delhi, India, June 9, 2011—IFC, a member of the World Bank Group, is investing $4 million in India’s Sapphire Industrial Infrastructures Private Limited to implement the country’s first large-scale grid-connected thin-film solar plant, which will help bolster clean energy locally and provide additional electricity to about 11,000 people. IFC’s investment in Sapphire Industrial...
Mumbai, May 31, 2011: On the occasion of World No Tobacco Day, the Tobacco Intervention Initiative (TII) of the Indian Dental Association (IDA) announced its partnership with Nicorette, the global leader in tobacco cessation products, to double a smoker’s chance of quitting. This partnership lends support to TII’s vision of battling tobacco addiction and thus promoting a healthier India sans oral...
New Delhi, India – May 24, 2011: Healthpoint Services Global, Inc., a social enterprise supported by Ashoka Innovators for the Public, has won the prestigious Sankalp Award for Innovative Social Enterprises- Emerging Ventures in the Health/Water/Sanitation sector for 2011. This awardacknowledges HealthPoint as the most innovative and promising health-oriented social enterprise in India this year...
New Delhi, India, March 9, 2011—IFC, a member of the World Bank Group, and India’s Gujarat Energy Research and Management Institute will jointly identify and develop renewable-energy projects in South Asia to help meet the region’s energy needs while better controlling greenhouse-gas emissions. IFC is working with Gujarat Energy Research and Management Institute, known as GERMI, to design and...