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Nepalese Enterprises Have To Spend 1% Of Profit In Social Causes
Nepalese government will soon start implementing the provision of newly introduced Industrial Enterprise Act that the industries need to allocate at least 1% of...
Focus Of Values Cannot Be Overstated: Gul Panag, Actress & Social Activist
Gul Panag runs the Colonel Shamsher Singh Foundation, an NGO that works towards a variety of causes including gender equality, education and disaster management. It was...
Talk Now- Better Late Than Never
World Health Day is an annual reminder, an alarm set by the World Health Organisation (WHO) to remind the world of both the increasing...
Young Girls Join School Of Justice To Prosecute Perpetrators of Prostitution
An estimate of 1.2 million children are pushed into the abyss of forced prostitution in India, which means that India has the largest amount...
Karnataka Struggles For CSR Funding To Save Forests
What is the likelihood of seeing a company board or hoarding in the middle of a lush forest? And even if there was one,...
Averting The ‘Smoke On Water’
India is on the way to become very highly urbanised with 60% of its population expected to live in cities by 2050. But urbanisation...
Red Tapisim And Poor Directives Demotivate You: Ritu Chhabria, Managing Trustee, Mukul Madhav Foundation
Ritu Chhabria wears two hats; one is Managing Trustee of Mukul Madhav Foundation (MMF) and the second being Director of Finolex Industries.
MMF is the...
‘Arise By Aricent’ To Impart Employable Skills To Engineering Students
Added to a list of initiatives is the launch of ‘Arise by Aricent’ an initiative to create employability opportunities for 3400 college students, by...
Participatory Dialogue On Maternal & Child Health Organised in Mumbai
Ambuja Cement Foundation, the CSR arm of Ambuja Cement, organised a knowledge sharing forum on Maternal and Child Health on the occasion of World...
Asia Pacific Adopts Regional Road Map To Accelerate SDGS
Asia-Pacific countries have adopted a road map for regional cooperation on implementing the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development at the Asia-Pacific Forum on Sustainable Development (APFSD 2017) that concluded in Bangkok recently.
The road map lays out priority...
Cabinet Approved Ratification Of ILO Conventions. What Would This Mean For Our Children?
The Union Cabinet on Friday took long pending steps to strengthen laws against child labour. It approved ratification of the Minimum Age Convention, 1973...
Achieving Water Security in India: Towards Innovative Solutions
An ‘Open Situation Room’ on ‘Water Security in India: Towards Innovative Solutions’, as part of the ‘Humanitarian Diplomacy Lab’ event was held by Vestyn...