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Sikkim, India’s First Fully Organic State
Sikkim became the first state in India to officially announce adoption of organic farming in the year 2003 to ensure long term sustenance of soil fertility, protection of environment and ecology, healthy living and decreasing the risk of health ailments. In 2003, Sikkim stopped imports of chemical fertilizers in the State and since then...
Canon India Marks Month Long Children’s Day Celebrations
Staying true to its corporate philosophy of ‘Kyosei’ - living and working together for the common good, Canon India, marked the month of November dedicated to Children’s Day celebrations. With an aim to further strengthen its dedication towards the children of the nation, the imaging marvel organised various initiatives across their adopted villages through...
Link Between Diet, Nutrition And Diseases
There is a strong link between diet and the diseases your body plays host to. What we eat and our nutritional status can affect cardiovascular diseases, some types of cancer and diabetes. Foods, diet and nutritional status, including overweight and obesity, are also associated with elevated blood pressure and blood cholesterol, and resistance to...
Difference Between CSR And Philanthropy
Majority of the times when Corporate Social Responsibility is mentioned, it is mainly in reference to the philanthropic initiatives of a company. CSR and Philanthropy has been always misconstrued as synonymous. However, there is a significant difference between the two.
Philanthropy is defined as promoting and attempting to bring about social change by majorly making...
Relationship Between CSR And PR
CSR and PR are closely related to each other. PR could be both, a blessing and a curse to CSR. Therefore, it is very important to understand these concepts and relationship between them.
CSR is not PR. The CSR legislation has made many companies view CSR as a marketing tool. The organisations undertake certain activities...
Tata Football Academy and Tata Trusts collaborate with Spanish football club to develop Indian football
Tata Football Academy (TFA) and the Tata Trusts today announced their collaboration with La Liga giants, Atlético de Madrid (ATM), to enhance and strengthen its existing programmes for promoting Indian football. The main objective of the collaboration is to encourage football as a sport at the youth and grassroots level as well as support...
Tata Steel is Official Partner of Odisha Hockey Men’s World Cup Bhubaneswar 2018
As the official partner of Odisha Hockey Men’s World Cup Bhubaneswar 2018, Tata Steel reiterated its commitment to promote a culture of sports as a unifying force both within and outside the country.
Calling sports as a great global unifier, Sunil Bhaskaran, Vice President, Corporate Services, Tata Steel, said, "Tata Steel is the first private...
Will India break the 43-year dry spell at the Hockey World Cup?
Indian hockey team geared up for the men's World Cup with a 5-0 thrashing of reigning Olympic champions Argentina in its first warm-up match on Friday. Sixteen of the world’s top hockey teams will take part in the 14th edition of the World Cup to be held at Bhubaneswar, Odisha. It is scheduled from...
CSR: Mary Kom Won Sixth Gold Medal In Women’s World Boxing Championship
Mary Kom wins Gold at the World Championships. This headline has become normal over the course of Mary Kom’s career. She has a knack of winning gold medals at World Championships and no wonder this is her sixth one!
She whitewashed her Ukrainian opponent Hanna Okhota 5-0 in the 48-kg category to tie with the...
ASCENT Conclave brought together Thought Leaders and Entrepreneurs
ASCENT Foundation, a not-for-profit, peer-to-peer learning platform for entrepreneurs, hosted its 3rd edition of the ASCENT Conclave, on November 23 at St. Regis, Mumbai. The full-day event brought together some of India’s most inspiring and recognized leaders who shared their entrepreneurial journey over the years, failure and success stories. Themed Beyond the Conversation, the...
Child focused regional initiatives lead the way
These initiatives are made special by their focus on child participation in governance, capacity building of children, redesigning the long-term development plans through a child lens and priority budgeting and expenditure by the government on issues identified by or important for children. As per the findings of the report, ‘Forgotten voices: The world of...
Stories Are Powerful — Evolution and Biology Have a Role to Play
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When you read these six words, what feelings do they evoke? Don’t these six words immediately make us empathize with an unknown, grief-stricken woman? We can almost visualize the situation and our hearts go out to her.
Ernest Hemingway wrote this story, calling it a six-word novel. It shows the...