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The future of the female workforce is at risk of unemployment because of various developments in the technological sector. In order to ensure that the women are not left behind when the country is progressing because of technology and they can actually benefit from the opportunities arising because of the economic development, governments, companies,...

टेलीविज़न स्क्रीन जैसे ही शुरू होता है, चीखें सुनाई देती है, उन माताओं की, उन पिता का, जो अपने दिल के टुकड़े को मौत के मुँह में जाते हुए देख रहे है, शोर होता है उन तीमारदारों का जो चाहकर भी अपने जिगर को बचा नहीं पा रहे है, गुस्सा है प्रशासन के प्रति,...

Aditya Birla Fashion and Retail Ltd. (ABFRL) is joining a unique and pioneering industry-led platform, ‘Circular Apparel Innovation Factory’ (CAIF) in collaboration with Intellecap. CAIF is India’s first industry-led platform, aiming to build a circular apparel and textile industry in India. Its mission is to search, seed, support, and scale circular textile and apparel innovations in India by building...

UltraTech Cement Limited is aiming to increase contribution of green energy to 25% of its total power consumption by 2021. This increase is more than double the current contribution of 10% of green energy to total energy consumption by the Company. The increase in green energy contribution comes in the wake of UltraTech’s commitment to increase contribution...

After securing the third spot in the ‘Swachh’ rankings this year, the Mysuru City Corporation (MCC) has set a target of procuring at least 100 mobile toilets from funds set aside under Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) of the industries in Mysuru to support its Swachh initiatives. The MCC has submitted several proposals for inclusion under...

There is a growing acceptance in the world regarding the necessity of women’s economic empowerment to drive global growth and sustainability. However, the future of women workforce is expected to face a multitude of challenges and threats which can be defeated if addressed in time. The biggest threat to the women workforce is from AI. The most...

Millennials may have different motivations for supporting corporate social responsibility (CSR) efforts than older consumers, with important implications for advertising in this space, a study in the Journal of Advertising Research (JAR) has argued. Yoon-Joo Lee (Washington State University) and Eric Haley (University of Tennessee) addressed this subject in a digital-first JAR paper entitled, How do...

With an expenditure of Rs 374 crore in the last financial year, HDFC Bank is one of the largest spenders of CSR in the country, yet its focus has always been on sustainability. “We believe that business cannot prosper if the communities in which they operate fail. Thus all our social initiatives have a concerted...

Avashya Foundation, the CSR arm of Allcargo Logistics, has announced that it will plant 1,02,500 trees by working with 2300 farmers in Jawahar, Mokada and Karjat – the tribal belt in Maharashtra, under its Maitree 2019- 2020 initiative. To set the ball rolling for Maitree 2019-2020, the Foundation celebrated World Environment Day involving over 200...

Forests are critical to protecting the environment. Protecting them is essential in order to avert the worst impacts of climate change. According to the climate experts, by halting deforestation and investing in reforestation and wetland conservation we could achieve up to a third of the global greenhouse gas reductions needed by 2030 to stay on track...

On the occasion of World Blood Donors Day 2019, in-vitro diagnostic company Transasia Bio-Medicals Ltd. has unveiled ‘SAVIOUR’, a location-based blood donation app that is available free to everyone. The new app is likely to empower those who have the resources to acquire blood but lose out on timely help due to inadequate blood...

Canada intends to ban single-use plastics as early as 2021, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced Monday at the Gault Nature Reserve in Mont St-Hilaire, south of Montreal. While details on how exactly the ban will be carried out are not yet clear, Trudeau said the government will explore which items need to be banned and will conduct...