West Bengal's social welfare schemes key to social upliftment: UNICEF OfficialWest Bengal's social welfare schemes, Kanyashree and Rupashree, have significantly contributed to the state's social upliftment, according ...
20 Sep, 2024, 09.53 PM IST
BPCL launches aerial seeding through drones to reforest hills in BiharBharat Petroleum Corporation Limited (BPCL) launched an afforestation project in Bihar called 'Aranya.' This initiative aims to plant 1,00,...
21 Aug, 2024, 05.39 PM IST
Short on system backup, companies can't play CSR long gameThe 2013 law states that CSR spending should be a minimum of 2% of average net profit of the three preceding years. When the budget is base...
10 Jul, 2023, 09.34 AM IST
HDFC Bank pledges Rs 108 Cr for IISc’s Bagchi-Parthasarathy hospitalIISc is setting up a multi-specialty, not-for-profit, 832-bed hospital, called the Bagchi-Parthasarathy Hospital, along with a PG Medical S...
02 Aug, 2022, 02.33 PM IST
Federal Bank donates 10,000 Covid vaccine carriers to KeralaThe Federal Bank has donated 10,000 vaccine carriers to the Kerala government. This was part of various infrastructure, logistical and awar...
23 Jun, 2021, 02.15 PM IST
Reskilling, up-skilling key CSR tactics to tackle a post-Covid world: CII PanelDigital platforms across verticals like healthcare, education, retail are expected to generate significant employment in coming quarters an...
29 Aug, 2020, 12.49 PM IST
Social work courses see rising interestSome European universities contacted by ET said social work courses are becoming important due to companies’ CSR (corporate social responsi...
18 Jan, 2018, 10.41 PM IST
Atlas Copco wants to set up head office in Maharashtra: Devendra FadnavisFadnavis, who is on a three day visit to Sweden, met the President and CEO Atlas Copco, Mats Rahmstrom and the company's MD Giovanni Valent...
13 Oct, 2017, 10.41 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
Adopt a Village: After MPs lose interest, government to tap India IncThe flagship scheme envisaged developing 2,200 villages into model villages in three phases till 2019. In the first phase, MPs adopted 695 ...
27 Apr, 2016, 12.21 AM 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
Education tops corporate social responsibility spends, community development nextAmong the CSR activities, education tops the chart with 81 % adopting this as their mandate, followed by 64% focusing on community.
16 Nov, 2014, 02.11 PM IST
Finance Ministry not in favour of tax sops for CSR in backward regionsThe Finance Ministry is not in favour of giving tax benefits to businesses for their social welfare spendings in backward regions as said b...
06 Apr, 2014, 01.24 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
- Numaligarh Refinery Limited bags Corporate Social Responsibility Award 2012
The award endorsed by World CSR Congress. The NRL team comprising of Bruno Ekka, General Manager (HR) and P. K. Sarma, Manager (CSR) receiv...
12 Dec, 2012, 09.09 PM IST
- Infosys Technologies CEO elected CII (south) chairman
Infosys Technologies CEO and Managing Director Kris Gopalakrishnanan was tonight elected Chairman of Conderation of Indian Industry (CII), ...
27 Mar, 2010, 10.03 PM IST
- TCS tops Asian Sustainability Ratings for 2009
Software major Tata Consultancy Sevices (TCS) has been ranked as the top company in India in terms of its sustainability practices by resea...
11 Dec, 2009, 08.31 PM IST