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‘Cyclone Fani’, one of the strongest storms to batter the Indian subcontinent in decades, made landfall near Puri, India, on 3rd May 2019. Over 10,000 villages and 50 towns bore its brunt, with over 1.4 million people still in relief centres across the states of Andhra Pradesh, Odisha and West Bengal. Drinking water is evident...

Hiring of differently- or specially-abled professionals by Indian recruiters has still a long way to go, if the recent survey findings by recruitment and flex-staffing firm Genius Consultants are anything to go by. The survey finds that the bulk of recruiters, or about 85% of the respondents, have either not hired or are companies in...

Maruti Suzuki India Limited on Friday announced that it has committed a sum of INR 125 crore to undertake two mega projects under its corporate social responsibility initiatives. The company laid the foundation stones for a multispeciality hospital and a senior secondary school at Sitapur, Gujarat. RC Bhargava, Chairman, Maruti Suzuki, Kenichi Ayukawa, MD &...

Due to the concerted efforts of academics and disability activists alike, the dialogue around disability has moved far away from theories of ableism and segregation. Decades of work to change attitudes and approaches towards PwDs (persons with disabilities) has brought the concepts of diversity, equity and inclusion to the forefront of the disability discourse. In...

After the Companies Act, 2013, many family-owned businesses have set up foundations that are at times also used to deploy personal wealth for philanthropy. More evolved Next Generation Philanthropists (NGPs) have established tight governance structures, and are adopting successful business practices to create a dynamic culture of giving and a positive work environment. Chetan Mehrotra...

The Turbhe MIDC police are on the lookout for unidentified accused who forged documents of Hexaware Technologies and approached NGOs and charitable trusts across the country with a proposal to provide Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) funds worth over INR 100 crore in the name of the IT firm at Mhape, reports The Hindu. The scam...

A woman who used to work as a junior court assistant in the supreme court of India accused has the Chief Justice of India (CJI) Ranjan Gogoi of sexual harassment. She wrote to 22 of its judges on April 19, alleging that the CJI made sexual advances at her at his residence office on October 10...

Yesterday, we told you about nine-year-old Ridhima Pandey who is suing the government over climate change inaction. Meet Vivhan Rekhi, a 16-year-old boy from Delhi British School, working hard to raise funds with a mission: to rescue the abandoned elderly from the streets of Delhi. He has been living with his grandparents in a joint...

A nine-year-old girl has filed a court case against the Indian Government for failing to take ambitious action to tackle climate change. Ridhima Pandey’s lawyer told The Independent she was a “compassionate child” who wanted her Government to help protect the planet for future generations. The northern Indian state of Uttarakhand, where Ridhima lives, has been devastated in the past three years...

India Inc looking to lend a helping hand to the startup ecosystem will soon be able to use its corporate social responsibility corpus for the same. The government panel on corporate social responsibility (CSR) is likely to suggest tweaks to the CSR framework to allow funding to all incubators to be counted towards CSR spend, a government official privy to the...

India has significant distance to cover on almost all development fronts. Its ranking on global development indicators like the Human Development Index (HDI) and the SDG index hasn’t improved substantially in recent years. The country ranked 130 on the HDI in 2018, the same ranking as in 2014, and 112 on the SDG index...

The hallowed TISS campus on Deonar Farm Road in Mumbai saw a flurry of activity last week as senior and mid-career professionals from the non-profit and corporate social responsibility sectors immersed themselves in an intensive training programme titled ‘Development Perspectives, Management and Practice’. This was the second batch of the 5-day certificate programme by TISS...