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Elderly people can now be rest assured and live in a safer environment at home. No adult child can force his senior citizen parents to allow him to stay in their house. A senior citizen can appeal with the Maintenance and Welfare of Parents and Senior Citizens Act (Senior Citizens Act), 2007 to evict...

The law under which companies are required to spend two per cent of their profit towards CSR activities provides an "excellent legal framework" to create a bridge between society and corporates, Commerce and Industry Minister Suresh Prabhu  said. Under the Companies Act, 2013, certain classes of profitable entities are required to shell out at least two per cent...

The scope of bullying has multiplied in the last few years with students from varied socio-economic backgrounds interacting with each other. It could either be for not having a premium smart phone or for posts on a variety of social media platforms. Although it has been a part of the growing process amongst peers,...

Xerox managed print services (MPS) customers will have the opportunity to contribute to the reforestation of global forests through Xerox’s new partnership with PrintReleaf. Based on a theme of “you print one, we’ll plant one,” PrintReleaf leverages paper usage reporting and equates the number of trees needed to reforest that usage on an equivalent basis...

As we are leading an almost sedentary lifestyle, we are prone a number of sicknesses and ailments. There has been a rise in the number of people suffering from a variety of health issues. A recent survey was done on women’s awareness on health and critical illness. This was done in order to accelerate dialogue around...

The Great Indian Literary Festival (TGILF) is India’s only Regional Literature Festival that promotes writers and writing from the states of UP, Rajasthan, Gujarat and Odisha. Season 2, focused on ‘Nationalism and Literature.’  It witnessed top Regional Literary talent, Padma Shri and Sahitya Akademi winners, TV actors and Thought leaders.   Thank you for reading the...

Once feared as making the role of the recruiter impersonal and robotic, Artificial Intelligence (AI) today gives recruiters the information they need to source and hire higher-quality professionals. Korn Ferry recently surveyed close to 800 talent acquisition talent professionals globally. Nearly 64 percent say AI has changed the way recruiting is done in their organisation,...

The Mann Deshi Mahotsav is an annual community festival that is a platform for more than 90 women entrepreneurs to showcase arts and crafts, culture and cuisine from rural Maharashtra. Encouraging and empowering women entrepreneurs from rural areas of Maharashtra, Dow India partnered with the Mann Deshi Foundation to conduct the Mann Deshi Mahotsav. Speaking...

The Maharashtra government has decided to use funds collected as part of corporate social responsibility (CSR) initiatives to provide monetary relief to victims of rape, child sexual assault and acid attack under the Manodhairya scheme. The Women and Child Development (WCD) Department has issued a government resolution notifying the revised scheme, following changes suggested...

The Department of Industrial Policy and Promotion (DIPP) has urged the Corporate Affairs Ministry (MCA) to tweak the CSR guidelines to have flexible regime for supporting incubators, said Ramesh Abhishek, DIPP Secretary. “We have suggested that CSR guidelines should not have stipulations around the location of the incubators. So long as it is an incubator...

Any company in India with revenues more than Rs 1,000 crore has to compulsorily invest 2 percent of its profit on developmental activities, be it poverty eradication, gender, hunger or education. After trying to find loopholes in the law and figuring out ways of not ploughing...

This report, Business Responsibility Report (BRR), has to be filed as part of their annual reports based on nine principles of National Voluntary Guidelines (NVG).