The number of the world's poorest families who received
access to microcredit and other financial services declined – for the first
time – in 2011 over th...
The Ministry of Environment and Forests (MoEF) has sought Rs 462 crore in its budgetary allocation for improving the forest cover in India by five million hecta...
Responding to the mixed reactions of the industry on mandatory
spends towards corporate social responsibility (CSR), Corporate Affairs Minister
Sachin Pil...
It is like going back to the roots as a large section of farmers are switching to traditional yet healthier way of farming – organic farming.
Revealing an int...
Sachin Pilot, the youngest corporate affairs minister, has proposed to create an independent entity to monitor corporate social responsibility (CSR) fund and en...
The government proposes to create 30,000 MW of fresh generating capacity from renewable sources of energy during the 12th five-year plan (2012"17). This will br...
The idea of a 'solar revolution' – whereby we will all use free electricity from the sun, which is the biggest source of renewable energy on the planet – has a...
Anshu Gupta from Goonj
has been declared as Social Entrepreneur of the Year (SEOY) India 2012, by Schwab
Foundation for Social Entrepreneurship, a sis...
A deepwater well in a Krishna Godavari basin block operated by state-run Oil and Natural Gas Corp (ONGC) has been leaking gas for two months and there are now f...
The Centre has issued guidelines requiring state governments to
incorporate plans for water conservation and sewage disposal in the master
plans for cities be...
