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‘Sports, Gender Equality & Animal Welfare Among The Losers In CSR Funds’
Corporate social responsibility (CSR) contribution to sports, environment, animal welfare, gender equality and slum area development dropped drastically in 2015-16. Clean Ganga Fund and...
Corporate Collaborations Can Aid Health Scenario
Today, the Indian government spends only about one percent of its GDP on healthcare, which is among the lowest globally for any country. Along...
Nepalese Enterprises Have To Spend 1% Of Profit In Social Causes
Nepalese government will soon start implementing the provision of newly introduced Industrial Enterprise Act that the industries need to allocate at least 1% of...
Young Girls Join School Of Justice To Prosecute Perpetrators of Prostitution
An estimate of 1.2 million children are pushed into the abyss of forced prostitution in India, which means that India has the largest amount...
Participatory Dialogue On Maternal & Child Health Organised in Mumbai
Ambuja Cement Foundation, the CSR arm of Ambuja Cement, organised a knowledge sharing forum on Maternal and Child Health on the occasion of World...
Cabinet Approved Ratification Of ILO Conventions. What Would This Mean For Our Children?
The Union Cabinet on Friday took long pending steps to strengthen laws against child labour. It approved ratification of the Minimum Age Convention, 1973...
Centre To Accommodate 165 Pediatric Cancer Patients Opened In Mumbai
Three buildings in Mumbai have been allocated to accommodate 165 pediatric cancer patients and their families who come from outstation to Mumbai for treatment.
The...
One In Every 10 people in Asia-Pacific Region Live Under Poverty: Report
About 400 million or one in ten people in Asia and the Pacific are living under poverty due to widening income inequality, according to a...
Philanthropy Figures Drop In 2016; Average Age Rises To 65 years
Founder and Chairman of HCL Ltd, Shiv Nadar (71) emerged as the ‘Most generous Indian’ with donation of Rs 630 crore towards education, according...
400 companies spend Rs 5,857 crore in 2 years towards CSR
Nearly 400 companies together shelled out about Rs 5,857 crore towards corporate social responsibility (CSR) activities in two years, Parliament was informed on Tuesday.
Under the Companies Act, 2013, a certain class of...
World Environment Conference: Govt Argues For Sustainable Development
The government argued for a plan for sustainable development, balancing the need to protect the environment and continued growth at the third World Conference...
We Are Not Missing, Just Stolen: Sex Trafficked Survivor
It is estimated that there are 20 million commercial sex workers in India, and around 80% of these, i.e. 16 million women, are victims of sex trafficking. This...