As India's R&D faces funding & talent crunch, Niti panel suggests 50+ fixesIndia's research and development spending lags behind global leaders. A Niti Aayog report highlights funding issues and bureaucratic delays...
21 May, 2026, 01.03 AM IST
46 pc of CSR spends in Maharashtra, aspirational districts need more attention: CrisilMaharashtra attracts almost half of India Inc's corporate social responsibility spending. However, the nation's most underdeveloped 'aspira...
26 Mar, 2026, 10.23 PM IST
Beyond compliance: Why companies must look past the balance sheet for ESGIndian companies are increasingly embracing ESG reporting, driven by regulations like BRSR and global sustainability goals. While initially...
20 Apr, 2025, 11.08 PM IST
Equitable distribution of CSR Fund is one of the key components of CSR strategies of Corporate India, says Bhaskar ChatterjeeBhaskar Chatterjee, architect of India's CSR Act, urged companies to prioritize innovation, impact assessment, and equitable CSR fund distr...
10 Dec, 2024, 08.11 PM IST
View: May a thousand CSR projects bloomIn 2014, India became the first country to make CSR mandatory, and today, more than 80% companies in India have CSR programmes. This is mor...
21 Jul, 2023, 10.49 PM IST
PSUs, private entities not spending 2pc of profit in CSR activities in Assam: Assembly panelThe assembly panel in its report for the Industries Department for 2021-22 suggested that PSUs and private firms with production units outs...
22 Aug, 2021, 05.23 PM IST
Covid vaccine distribution by companies may be covered under CSRWidening the scope of activities under the ambit of CSR to include vaccine distribution related spending is one of the options being examin...
09 Dec, 2020, 09.42 AM IST
Contributions to R&D spends on Covid-related vaccine, drugs to be considered as CSR: GovtThe targeted amendment in the CSR rules permitted such companies to categorise as CSR activity any Covid-related R&D activity even if under...
25 Aug, 2020, 11.55 PM IST
Pandemic could devour bulk of CSR kitty this year: CrisilThe agency has taken into consideration contributions made through the PM CARES Fund, other relief funds, distribution of food, masks, pers...
09 Jun, 2020, 05.49 PM IST
PM-CARES to be audited by independent auditorsThe new fund has been opened up for donations from abroad after it was exempted from the Foreign Contribution Regulation Act. Donors will b...
12 Apr, 2020, 11.58 PM IST
Companies get socially more responsible, CSR spend up 47%: ReportOn a yearly basis, the actual CSR spend of the entities rose 8.34 per cent in 2016-17, from Rs 6,342 crore in 2015-16.
31 Aug, 2017, 04.28 PM IST
A writer speaks out on the complex issues one has to forge to get CSR funding in IndiaIf acquiring CSR funding is purely about luck, then it becomes a messy business that leaves very little scope for accountability, transpare...
29 Nov, 2015, 02.24 PM IST
Government, IIT-Bombay launch solar project to reduce kerosene subsidyIIT Bombay started a programme last year to distribute solar lamps to students living in non-electrified areas of the country.
13 May, 2014, 07.25 AM IST
AAI to spend Rs 10 crore for akharas, roads in Ajit Singh and his son’s constituenciesAround Rs 10 crore, about 63% of AAI’s Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) budget for the year to end-March 2014 has already been allocat...
13 Mar, 2014, 08.18 AM IST
- Dhoti/saree to BPL families for Rs ten each: Jharhand govt
oren promised to allocate funds for the proposed medical college in Chaibasa, which was approved by the erstwhile Madhu Koda-government.
21 Nov, 2013, 09.31 PM IST
CSR: Ten large PSUs managed to disburse less than half of target amountTen large PSUs, which were together mandated to spend 1,313 crore in FY12, managed to disburse less than half that amount
24 Jan, 2013, 05.04 AM IST
- More women leaders, better Corporate Social Responsibility
What's good for women is good for business and also for society, suggests a new study by researchers at Catalyst and Harvard Business Schoo...
22 Nov, 2011, 01.45 AM IST