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Companies spent nearly 12 per cent more money at Rs 9,882 crore towards CSR works in 2015- 16, Union minister P P Chaudhary said as he appealed to companies to contribute more to such activities. He added that a host of government programmes, including Swachh Bharat Mission and Namami Gange, provide opportunities for corporates to...

India today has a vast population of more than 1.20 billion out of which nearly 75% are living in rural areas. Energy and development are inter-related. In order to have a sustainable growth rate, it is imperative to have sufficient energy for systematic development in various sectors. Energy sector has received top priority in...

Individual Social Responsibility is about continuing to make efforts in order to make a difference in the lives of people. Earlier this month, a dowry-less social wedding ceremony was organised at Palakkad in Kerala. The ceremony witnessed 20 couples tying the knot as part of social wedding. The girls are selected from 2,500 BPL...

Actions are needed now more than ever to prevent and respond to violence against all women and girls. Recently published edition of the Time magazine has named "The Silence Breakers," representing people who came forward to report sexual misconduct, as its Person of the Year. It is a recognition of the cultural estimate sum of this...

India, is the second largest mobile phone market with 1.03 billion subscribers, is the first largest producer of e-waste. Our country discards 18.5 lakh metric tonnes of electronic waste each year, with computer equipment accounting for 70% and telecom 12% according to by WHO 2014. The most dreaded information is that in India, about 4-5 lakh child...

A group of 18 employees of a private bank will cycle 1,000 kilometres as part of an awareness drive to raise money for educating 549 students in a school located in Rasoolpura. The team, two of whom hail from Hyderabad, will cover Kurnool, Tirupati, Ongloe and Vijayawada in 10 days. At Tirupati, the cyclists will...

There are five trillion pieces of plastic in the world’s oceans, weighing a total of 268,000 tonnes. That’s according to a paper by an international team of scientists who took a substantial amount of data collected across the globe and merged it with ocean circulation models to come up with the staggering figure. That sounds...

Companies are quick to pledge efforts to push renewable energy but found wanting when it comes to making investments in clean energy initiatives under their corporate social responsibility (CSR) heads. According to a report by Mumbai-based consultancy Samhita, which analysed data reported by top 100 BSE-listed firms as per CSR spend, CSR investments in clean...

In an attempt to make Northeast India more inclusive in the health infrastructure map of the country, India is going to launch its first air dispensary. This move will help reach topographically difficult areas of the North-east to give them access to health care in time. According to the plan, helicopters will be based...

The Nasscom Foundation, at its flagship event, the CSR Leadership Conference (CLC), announced that the industry had widely accepted the 2% CSR rule with a trend of more companies coming out openly to declare 100%+ utilisation of their CSR money for 2016-17. This year the CLC went beyond discussing basic intervention areas, to talk about...

Bengaluru recently witnessed its 10th Pride Parade ‘Namma Pride’, which literally translates to My Pride, on November 26th. Through this event, a crowd of 7000 people, predominantly coloured in rainbows, came onto the streets to profess their acceptance of people from the LGBTQIA community and to fight for their rights. With placards held high,...

According to The Least Developed Countries Report 2017, the world’s 47 least developed countries (LDCs) are falling far behind the rest of the developing world in terms of getting power to homes and businesses. While they have made great strides in recent years, achieving the global goal of universal access to energy by 2030...