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Minister Launches Anti-Obesity Campaign in Maharashtra

November 30, 2016 SrijitaAnti-Obesity, Campaign, In, Launches, Maharashtra, Minister

Maharashtra’s Minister of Water Resources and Medical Education Girish Mahajan on Tuesday launched an awareness campaign against obesity in the state. The campaign ‘Fight Obesity’ — which will end on December 29 — will entail Body Mass Index (BMI) tests for students, teaching and non-teaching staff and patients at Out Patient Departments at 16 medical colleges in various districts of Maharashtra. The initiative has been launched in collaboration with JT Foundation. The people suffering from obesity in India total around 30 million. “This is a unique initiative to curb a…

Who’s Next? Asia Investor Activism Set to Grow After BlackRock Public Campaign

March 8, 2016 SrijitaActivism, After, Asia, BlackRock, Campaign, Grow, Investor, Next?, Public, Set, to, Who's

Hong Kong: Following a rare public campaign, BlackRock Inc voted against a deal planned by a Hong Kong firm that the world’s biggest asset manager partly owns, revving up investor activism in Asia after it roared ahead in 2015. In a ballot on Tuesday, BlackRock rejected G-Resources Group Ltd’s plan to sell its main asset, an Indonesian gold mine, saying it didn’t have confidence G-Resources would use the proceeds in investors’ best interests. Owning 8 percent of G-Resources, BlackRock urged other shareholders to follow suit. G-Resources, which has said it…