The CSR Journal

Following the “clean diesel” scandal, Volkswagen will be dropped from the Dow Jones Sustainability Indices (DJSI), a leading sustainability index in the early October. Once a favourite of fuel efficient automakers, Volkswagen will be removed from the DJSI on October 6, a press release from index organizers RobecoSAM and S&P Dow Jones Indices said. Volkswagen was...

The Maharashtra state government is keen on involving the corporate sector to share the responsibility of developing the state with their corporate social responsibility (wp) funds. The state government is planning to meet India’s top 100 private companies in October and urge them to invest more in wp activities. The meeting will be scheduled...

The dire poverty in our country makes necessity the mother of invention. In a country where 59.2% of the population lives on less than Rs 150 a day, rural households cannot afford expensive menstrual products such as sanitary napkins. To make do with easily available and cheap material has become a way of life...

GAIL (INDIA) LIMITED GAIL CSR Creates History – 39 underprivileged students make it to the coveted IITs Kanpur, June 20, 2014: A whopping 39 students from economically marginalised backgrounds, sponsored by GAIL’s flagship education programme Utkarsh, have made it to the most coveted and prestigious engineering institutions of the country – the Indian Institutes of Technology...

THE Science Express Biodiversity Special - a train exhibition showcasing the exceptional biodiversity of India - was flagged off by ministers of Science and Technology, Environment and Forests and Railways, from New Delhi’s Safdarjung Railway Station. The train will cover 57 locations across the country over the next six and a half months.  It is a flagship venture...

We talk about global warming and depleting water levels, but how many of us can pride ourselves on being ‘sustainable practitioners’? Narendra Modi's Teacher's Day message asks us to reconsider our lifestyles in the context of an increasing population.

Cairn India’s rural BPO project is the first of its kind in agricultural western Rajasthan and marks the entry of IT-enabled services in the region

With the Indian Government announcing elaborate plans to tap the Solar potential right up to border areas and The Ministry of New & Renewable Energy announcing subsidies on the installation cost of solar photovoltaic power plants, Solar Power has all the makings of a ‘bright’ business opportunity or a wp program with 'glowing' prospects.

‘Greenwashing’ is the act of advertising or marketing a product as eco-friendly without actually being such in business practices or process.

Chennai based BIOTEC Bags have designed a Plastic Bag that you will never feel guilty about using.

Following the Prime Minister’s toilets-for-all clarion call, different ministries have already started drawing up blueprints with executable plans, even as government sources admit preparing a collaborative strategy to manage wp funds is proving to be a challenge.

Minister of State for CorporateAffairs Nirmala Sitharaman have said that the government will analyse the pattern of Corporate Spending under wp programmes after completion of one year.