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IndusInd Bank has launched its non-banking sports vertical, ‘IndusInd For Sports’, to make sports an integral, intrinsic and strategic element for both internal and external stakeholders. It will entail year-long engagement activities for customers, employees and the community through its programmes. As a step forward in that direction, IndusInd for Sports has launched the Para...

Higher Education Financing Agency (HEFA) is a proposal by the Human Resource Development ministry of India whose aim will be funding infrastructure creation for top education institutes like the IITs and IIMs. The government is planning to set aside Rupee 1,000 crore corpus initially which will later be raised to about Rupee 20,000 crore....

Teradata, a big data analytics and marketing applications company, announced its partnership with Project Nanhi Kali to support education initiatives for young girls in Mumbai, Pune and Hyderabad. UNICEF, among children not attending school, there are twice as many girls as boys, and among illiterate adults there are twice as many women as men....

When I started playing squash in 1986, I hardly had an idea about what an attractive, mobilizing and inspiring force “Sport” could be. Sport has the power to rescue us from the daily grind of life. A heroic act, a sporting gesture, an impromptu quote, talking tough, looking mean, a brave decision and an...

A global study released by Hay Group division of Kon Ferry a global people and advisory firm, shows that when organizations include social responsibility programs within their leadership development efforts it delivers results. The survey which was carried out in more than 107 countries, with response from more than 7,500 people responses found that across...

On 1 April, Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) Rules complete two years of existence. The two years have been a learning curve for all stakeholders. They have also seen an ever-increasing number of claims being made to funds available under the head. Given the level of interest, one would think that the corpus available under...

Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Swachh Bharat Abhiyan seeks to promote a culture of cleanliness, hygiene and sanitation. Eager to gain momentum, the Centre is considering a proposal to ask private companies and PSUs to spend around 25- 30% of CSR funds on the cleanliness programme. It expects to garner close to Rs 2 lakh crore...

Most corporates see increase in spend for CSR activities in the next fiscal as per by industry body FICCI (Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry). Latest survey done by FICCI on strategic decision-making process by Indian companies in terms of their CSR activities shows 83% of the respondents anticipating to increase in their...

A recent news report based on income of Indian farmers will shock you with its startling figures. These figures can negatively affect the CSR funding towards the plight of poor Indian farmers. In a written RTI reply to News Nation, in 2011-12 nearly 6.50 lakh farmers earned Rs 2 thousand lakh crore (approx) which was...

Holi is all about colours and water. But with the nation facing severe dearth of water, citizens are ensuring that water is not wasted by playing Holi and still keeping the spirit of the festival intact. It is good to see common citizens taking the charge on themselves and ensuring they don’t add to the...

While Holi is just a couple of days away and everyone is planning to celebrate it, take some time out to think about the World Water Day too. United Nations designated March 22 as ‘World Water Day’ since 1993 with an aim to raise awareness about importance of water and various issues around it. Each...

Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) announced Sustainable Plus labels for 100 largest companies by market capitalisation across 20 sectors. Sustainable Plus is India’s only corporate sustainability label and is based on a comprehensive analysis of companies across environment, social and governance dimensions of business. The analysis was conducted for information based on FY2015. Sustainable...