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Vedanta Aluminium has reinforced its commitment towards woman empowerment through the inauguration of a new turmeric processing machine for a women Self-Help Group in Lanjigarh. The company runs the Self-Help Group program, under the Sakhi Project with the rural women, which is one of the key initiatives of the sustainable livelihood program. Speaking on the...

Recently, artificial intelligence (AI) has been widely discussed being a focal point for debates about hope and scepticism related to the world’s future development. AI is an innovation which will profoundly change our economy, politics and society – it is, therefore, time to ask if and how AI will change corporate social responsibility (CSR)...

Embassy Group and The Ugly Indians have embarked on the Hebbal Tech Hub transformation initiative to beautify the public spaces in the vicinity of Embassy Manyata Business Park in Bengaluru. Embassy Group, under its Corporate Connect Program advocates and create opportunities through which corporates are encouraged to collaborate as a means to solve larger social...

Over the last 20 years, the building sector has focused on tackling the 28% of global emissions created by the operational phase of a building, the greenhouse gases pumped out by offices and homes as they are cooled and heated. Far less attention has been paid to embodied carbon, those emissions created during the...

A social implementing organization Ambuja Cement Foundation (ACF) and a worldwide mining company Hindustan Zinc Limited today, inaugurated a skill development centre at Rapura Dariba Mine, Rajasthan. This partnership will aim to provide training to almost 3,000 unemployed youth in skilled trades like Assistant Electrician, Domestic Data Entry Operator, Sales Associate, Unarmed Security Guard and...

The estimated $550bn global hotel and hospitality sector is one of the world’s fastest-growing industries. And with some 17.2 million rooms booked each year, it is also one of the most impactful. Tourism contributes about 5% of global greenhouse gas emissions, and those are set to grow by 130% by 2035, according to the...

Chennai is facing its worst water crisis in more than 30 years. It went without rainfall at a stretch for 200 days and the city reservoirs are holding less than 1% of their total storage capacity. It is now dependent on desalination plants to take care of its water requirements. The Chennai Container Freight...

टीवी की स्क्रीन जैसे ही चालू होती, एक बड़ा सवाल दिखाई देता कि कश्मीर में क्या होगा, कयासों के बाजार गर्म थे, डिबेट पर सब अपने तर्क वितर्क रख रहे थे, किसी को कुछ नहीं पता था कि कश्मीर में क्या होगा, सेना की टुकड़ियों ने पूरे कश्मीर में मोर्चा संभाल लिया, अमरनाथ यात्रा...

Amid concerns in various quarters, industry body CII plans to approach the government seeking reconsideration of penal provisions with respect to non-compliance with CSR spending norms under the companies law. Industry grouping Ficci on Friday said the changes would only encourage tick-box compliance. With the latest amendments to the companies law, there would be...

The amendment to the Companies Act, introducing harsh penalties including jail term for non-compliance on CSR (corporate social responsibility), comes at a time when firms have been successively improving their record on the front. Data sourced from Prime Database (a leading provider of data on capital market), shows that in the last five years,...

In agriculture, big data is often viewed as a combination of technology and analytics that can collect and compile novel data and process it in a more useful and timely way to assist decision making. Data mining is the computing process of discovering patterns in large data sets involving methods at the intersection of artificial...

According to a study by Clutch, 45% of employees say their company has a policy or guidelines regarding political expression in the workplace. Does limiting political discussion in the workplace, though, have a negative effect on a company’s corporate social responsibility (CSR)? Corporate social responsibility in India can influence people’s perceptions of your company and...