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  • CNN-IBN Indian of the Year awards: nominees for final three categories short-listed

    CNN-IBN Indian of the Year awards: nominees for final three categories short-listed

    MUMBAI: CNN-IBN has announced the nominees for the final three categories for CNN-IBN Indian of the Year Awards. The judiciary council in accordance with the TV 18 editorial team has submitted its choice of the final candidates for the Entertainment, Public Service and NRI categories.
    Nominees for the Entertainment category are:

    – Actor Shah Rukh Khan

    – Director Raj Kumar Hirani

    – Singer and Music Director Himesh Reshammiya

    – Producer Gajendra Singh

    – Actor Aamir Khan

    – Actress Priyanka Chopra

    Nominees for the Public Service discipline are:

    – Indian social activist Arvind Kejriwal

    – Vidarbha Jan Andolan Samiti president Kishore Tiwari

    – IOC sales officer Late. S. Manjunath

    – Indian economist and member of Right to Food Campaign Jean Dreze

    – Dr Abhay and Rani Dang

    – Jessica Lall’s sister Sabrina Lall, Priyadarshini Mattoo’s father CL Mattoo and Nitish Katara’s mother Neelam Katara.

    Nominees for the NRI category are:

    – PepsiCo worldwide chief Indira Nooyi

    – Industrialist Laxmi Mittal

    – Author Kiran Desai

    – Fiction and nonfiction author and United Nations diplomat Shashi Tharoor.

    – Filmmaker Deepa Mehta

    – Commander USN, NASA Astronaut Sunita Williams

    CNN-IBN and IBN 7 editor-in-chief Rajdeep Sardesai said, “With this we have declared the nominees for all six categories of the CNN-IBN Indian of the Year. Having set the ball rolling it will now be upon the electoral college and the public to decide who are the most deserving of the Indian of the Year title for each of these groups. Regardless of the winner, each of these 36 candidates should be lauded for their efforts and achievements in their respective disciplines.”
     

    CNN-IBN and IBN 7 national sales head Sanjay Dua added, “This esteemed title recognises and felicitates the contributions of Indians not only nationally but internationally as well and is therefore something advertisers will take pride in being associated with.”

  • Sunfeast uses child advocates to ‘Save the Environment’; SRK hops onto campaign

    Sunfeast uses child advocates to ‘Save the Environment’; SRK hops onto campaign

    MUMBAI: ITC Foods has announced a nationwide campaign titled ‘Sunfeast Hara Banao’. In its third year, this campaign aims at educating children about the growing environmental adversities and their contribution in “Saving the Environment”. This year Shah Rukh Khan has also been roped in.

    The environmental campaign, which will run across schools in the cities will organize a signature drive – “Sow a Seed Today Campaign”, where in students collect signatures from people who pledge to do their bit for saving the environment by recycling and sowing a seed as part of the first phase.

    The second phase of the month long campaign will host the ‘Sunfeast Hara Banao Week’ which consists of a series of Environment Fairs across five cities. The Environment Fair will kick off with a sapling plantation and a march in each city. The march is aimed at reaching out to the people in the city to play their part in “Saving the Environment”. The Environment Fair will showcase projects by the students of various schools, and also organize various inter school environment based competitions, informs an official release.

    The scope of this initiative has increased over the last three years while this year the campaign has registered over 3,00,000 students from more than 400 schools spread across five cities in the country.

    ITC Limited – Foods Business divisional Chief Executive Ravi Naware said, “Sunfeast believes that children are the best harbingers of change and improvement. We believe that our initiative with school children is a necessary process of reflection for them as well as us. Initiatives such as the ‘Sunfeast Hara Banao Campaign’is oriented towards our governing philosophy of responsibility towards the environment. Several schools will also be awarded for their commitment toward showcasing critical environmental issues and spreading awareness on the subject.”

    Sunfeast claims to be an environment friendly brand that has identified children as the prime drivers to advocate the cause of environmental issues and become the drivers for environmental advocacy.