“There will
be no 'Inspector Raj'. It is the companies' money and they will decide what to
do with it, and how to spend it. The provision is about...
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...
Responding to the mixed reactions of the industry on mandatory
spends towards corporate social responsibility (CSR), Corporate Affairs Minister
Sachin Pil...
Sachin Pilot, the youngest corporate affairs minister, has proposed to create an independent entity to monitor corporate social responsibility (CSR) fund and en...
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...
India has called for renewed global efforts to combat the 'severe challenge' of drug trafficking, warning it was being used to finance terrorism and transnation...
The 2012 report on Trafficking in Persons (TIP) by the US Department of State has declared that 'the Government of India does not fully comply with the minimum ...
October 11, 2012, is the first-ever 'International Day of the Girl Child', as declared by the United Nations (UN). The central objective is to promote equal tre...
'Children in India 2012' – the report from the ministry of statistics and programme implementation – states that child malnutrition in India is severe and also ...
Corporate social responsibility (CSR) was an alien term for the majority of Indian businesses until a few years back. The 'term' became a 'concept' over time, a...
