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Actor Sanjay Dutt is in the news again, for all the right reasons this time. The actor got emotional when he opened up about his own battle with drug addiction at launch of Drug Free India in Chandigarh. “This one time I was in such a bad state. I was bleeding from my mouth, my...

अभिनंदन, अभिनंदन, अभिनंदन जितना अभिनंदन किया जाय वो कम है, विंग कमांडर अभिनंदन आज देश की हर जुबां पर है, हर धड़कन में है, हर एक का हीरो है, हो भी क्यों ना, पकिस्तान की सरजमीं पर अभिनंदन ना झुका, ना टुटा बल्कि पाकिस्तानी प्लेन को निस्तेनाबूत कर उन्ही की जमीन पर भारत माता...

Over the past few years, new development initiatives aimed at modernising agriculture like Pradhan Mantri Krishi Sinchai Yojana (PMKSY) aim to expand farmer incomes. Area under micro irrigation has grown 2.5 times in the last four years under PMKSY. The second cycle of the Soil Health Card (SHC) scheme is underway, which will focus on...

Club Mahindra launched an annual initiative - Mission S.M.I.L.E.S. (Social Movement to Improve Life Experiences) under its Employee Social Options Program (ESOP). As part of this all Club Mahindra employees pledged to cumulatively devote 5000 hours annually in Corporate Social Responsibility initiatives focusing on education, health and environment. To begin with, 180 employees and Club...

The CSR mandate has encouraged many corporates to take up the matter of social, national and environmental development in their own hands. Instead of associating themselves with a non-profit or an NGO, many corporates have established their own foundations to overlook the activities of it and utilized the foundation to demonstrate their contribution to...

Aiming to highlight issues related to gender equality at workplaces in India, Global Compact Network India – Local arm of UN Global Compact, New York organized its second edition of Gender Equality Summit Friday at Saket, New Delhi. The summit was organized in the backdrop of the increasing conversation around the safety of women in...

It only took one video of animals suffering and dying in the meat industry to convince me to go vegetarian,” says Bollywood actor Kartik Aaryan. “The kindest thing anybody can do for cows, pigs, chickens, and all animals is to stop eating them. With baby chicks perched on his hand, Pyaar Ka Punchnama star and...

Corporate social responsibility (CSR) is increasingly central to a company’s reputation. Hence, businesses must integrate CSR into their public relations (PR) strategy to achieve success. According to a recent survey from Clutch, most people expect businesses in every industry to commit to CSR. To be effective, however, CSR efforts must appear to emanate from a...

“The fate of industrially farmed animals is one of the most pressing ethical questions of our time. Tens of billions of sentient beings, each with complex sensations and emotions, live and die on a production line,” says author Yuval Noah Harari in his New York Times bestseller Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind.   Choosing...

It is not so difficult to install business ethics when the business is flourishing. It gets difficult to hold on to ethics when the business is facing a downfall. It is during times like these when companies take reckless decisions. The hard time in business causes executives to become insecure making them hold off...

By Shreya Deb, Maddie Holland and Sonam Agrawal Poverty in India is changing. Since independence, while India has made progress in reducing its overall poverty rate, urban poverty has increased, driven primarily by people migrating to cities from rural areas in search of opportunity. Between 1973 and 2004, the share of India’s urban poor increased...

Tech Mahindra Foundation under its Employability vertical has launched Tech Mahindra SMART Academy for Healthcare in Mumbai. Its third SMART Academy is in association with Auxilium Convent School, Pali Hill, which was conceptualized following the success of the first two healthcare academies in New Delhi and Mohali. Inspired with Tech Mahindra Foundation’s CSR mandate of...