CSR
Handlooms, Handicrafts Not In The Purview Of India’s CSR Spending
Any company in India with revenues more than Rs 1,000 crore has to compulsorily invest 2 percent of its profit on developmental activities, be...
Bengaluru Marched For The Pride Of LGBTQIA
Bengaluru recently witnessed its 10th Pride Parade ‘Namma Pride’, which literally translates to My Pride, on November 26th. Through this event, a crowd of...
Progress In Least Developed Countries Hinges On Access To Modern Energy
According to The Least Developed Countries Report 2017, the world’s 47 least developed countries (LDCs) are falling far behind the rest of the developing...
A Discouraged Effort And An Inactive Government
For 109 weeks, a UN Champion of the Earth, Afroz Shah, had been cleaning an entire beach in one of the busiest cities in...
Championing The Growth Of Employment
In today’s world, youth unemployment is a considerable social tragedy, with one third of young people worldwide without access to education, training or a...
Biogas Plants Can Help Reduce Deforestation
Biogas energy is one of the more underrated and underused renewable resource of energy in the country. In times of such energy crisis, biogas...
The Buttress Of The Indian Socio-Economic Fabric
The real scenario of India is that the populous unorganised sector lives as working poor.
The ‘unorganised’ sector, also termed the ‘informal’ sector constitutes the...
A Glass Of Milk To Address Undernourishment In Jharkhand
The Chief Minister of Jharkhand announced the launch of a scheme called ‘Gift Milk Scheme’ under the National Dairy Development Board (NDDB), Rural Electrification...
Why A Health Atlas Can Help Indian Health Infrastructure
A health study was jointly conducted by Indian Council of Medical Research and Public Health Foundation of India and Institute for Health Metrics and...
India Has Highest Number Of People Without Basic Sanitation: Report
About 56% of India’s population had no access to basic sanitation needs in 2015, according to a report by WaterAid.
India, the world's second-largest country by population,...
Collective Efforts Needed To Address Air Quality In Gurugram
The government’s efforts to control air pollution got a shot in the arm with the installation of four Air Quality Monitors across four locations...
Social Spend of PSUs Down 10% in 2016-17: Report
The social spend of public sector undertakings fell 10% in 2016-17 from a year ago, even as the total expenditure on Corporate Social Responsibility...