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New Delhi: India formally joined the Paris Climate Change Agreement by submitting its instrument of ratification at UN headquarters in New York on Sunday - the birth anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi. The instrument of ratification was deposited by India's permanent representative to the UN, Syed Akbaruddin. By putting Gandhi seal on the climate deal, the country will now urge the global community...

Aiming to transform 1,000 villages in the initial leg of the vision, Maharashtra chief minister Devendra Fadnavis met corporate heads and Bollywood celebrities on Thursday. A governing council headed by CM would be formed with members from corporate and state. Industry moguls like chairman emeritus of Tata Sons Ratan Tata, Anand Mahindra, chairman and managing...

Jharkhand Chief Minister Raghubar Das on Monday told companies that half of their corporate social responsibility (CSR) money should be deposited into the CSR council fund maintained by the state government. "A cell will be formed and the government will spend money from the fund as per requirements. Panchayat Secretariat and UNICEF will monitor the...

In the 2016 Rio Olympics, shuttler PV Sindhu became the first Indian woman to win a silver medal; Sakshi Malik the first Indian female wrestler to win a medal (bronze), gymnast Dipa Karmarkar became the first Indian woman to feature in a gymnastics final, finishing fourth, and Lalita Babar became the first Indian woman...

Indian industry has sought special incentives from the government to help it invest 2% of their corporate social responsibility fund towards skilling the large number of youth that enter the country's workforce every year. This would ensure adequate capitalisation for government's Skill India programme and in turn reduce the burden on the exchequer a...

The Haryana government has framed a state-level Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) co-ordination committee on education with an aim to fill funding gaps in the government school projects. Considering the presence of a large number of corporate houses in the state, the Haryana government has formulated an implementation plan for its CSR policy, in a bid...

For optimal management of corporate social responsibility (CSR) funds, the state government is all set to constitute a 'Rajasthan CSR Authority'. Conceived on the lines of a similar body formed by the Gujarat government, the authority will act as a facilitator for industries to carry out their mandatory CSR activities in the state. The authority will...

The WPP India Corporate Social Responsibility Foundation launched its implementation programme to bring about holistic development in the lives of upto 20,000 underprivileged children and youth in Mumbai and Delhi in collaboration with its implementation partners Magic Bus and HOPE foundation, at a school in Andheri, Mumbai. This CSR initiative aims to empower children and...

In the words of UN Secretary- General Ban-Ki-moon, young people are almost three times more likely to be unemployed than adults. They are today exposed to lower quality of jobs, greater labour market inequalities and longer and more insecure school-to-work transitions. July 15 is World Youth Skills Day, and the United Nations is observing the day...

The majority of supply chain auditors across Asia have encountered child labour in the last two years, and in only a third of cases could they confirm the children were removed from the factories, a survey has found. Of 557 auditors polled, 64 percent encountered child labour during their on-site inspections in the last two...

Mumbai: The CSR Journal established a platform to honour individual social contributions through SWAG (Social Welfare & Growth) Awards, 2016 on July 8 in Mumbai. The news portal will take a leap forward with the launch of ‘The CSR Journal TV’ and a bimonthly magazine by early 2017 on (Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR). These initiatives are...

At least 69 members of the ‘third gender’ have applied for the posts of lecturers and assistant teachers in colleges and schools for the first time in Uttar Pradesh. This is also the first time that the Uttar Pradesh Secondary Education Service Selection Board (UPSESSB) is keeping the data on transgender applicants. As part of the...