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Infosys Foundation Partners with NGOs for Assam’s Development Infosys Limited’s CSR arm, Infosys Foundation has signed Memorandums of Understanding (MoU’s) with four NGO’s to support various initiatives in the remote areas of Assam. The various ...

DRIVE INDIA: THE LONG ROAD TO ORGAN DONATION AWARENESS September 2017, the Million Donor Project will hit the road in the fourth series of the Gift of Life Adventure. This time, the road to organ donation sign-ups will take Anil Srivatsa to every nook and corner of ...

Colgate-Palmolive (India) Limited, in Partnership with Water For People Launches Water Program in Amravati , Maharashtra Colgate-Palmolive (India) Limited, the market leader in Oral Care, in partnership with the non-profit organisation, Water For People India Trust, today launched its Amravati Water initiative in the Amravati District ...

The world is running out of antibiotics | WHO A report, Antibacterial agents in clinical development – an analysis of the antibacterial clinical development pipeline, including tuberculosis, launched today by WHO shows a serious lack of new antibiotics under ...

Hero Motocorp Project Maitri | Presents 80 New Hero Duet Scooters to Bhopal Women Police Officers Hero MotoCorp Ltd, the world’s largest two-wheeler manufacturer, commenced a new partnership with the state Police Department in Madhya Pradesh, presenting 80 new Hero Duet scooters to the women police officers in ...

Measles cases in India dropped by 43% in a year: WHO Measles cases in India have dropped significantly by a whopping 43 per cent between 2015 and 2016 for the first time and are expected to dramatically fall this year too as India builds on its polio eradication ...

Govt Issues Notice to 1,200 NGOs to Validate Bank Accounts The Ministry of Home Affairs has issued notice to over 1,200 NGOs across the country, asking them to validate their bank accounts where they receive foreign funds. They have been asked to submit expenditure details ...

NGO CONNECT PROGRAMME 2017 organized by MOHAN Foundation, Hyderabad MOHAN Foundation Hyderabad organized a “NGO Connect” Programme on September 10, 2017 at Hotel Quality Inn Residency, Hyderabad to celebrate success on the occasion of 15th anniversary. This meet was attended by ...

BLS International receives “Best Workplace Practices” Award BLS International won the Best Workplace Practices Award at the recent ‘Asia Best CSR Practices Awards 2017’. Shikhar Aggarwal, Joint Managing Director, BLS International received the award for the Best Workplace ...

CouponRaja Ties up With GiveIndia to Enable Users to Donate Cash backs MUMBAI, August 3, 2017 CouponRaja , one of India’s leading online coupon aggregators, now allows its users to donate cash backs to charity. CouponRaja has collaborated with GiveIndia – a not-for-profit ...

Biocon reports net profit at Rs 81 crore for Q1FY18 Biocon Reports Q1FY18 Revenue at Rs 988 Crore; EBITDA at Rs 246 Crore; Net Profit at Rs 81 Crore, Core Operating Margins at 29 per cent

After Polio, Rotary Districts pledge support to make India TB-Free Governors from all Rotary Districts along with the Rotary National TB Control Committee recently met with Ministry of Health and Family Welfare (MOHFW) Officials, U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) ...

Carving Vibrant Citizens Through Joined CSR Initiatives by UAE Exchange Branches KOCHI, India, July 25, 2017 UAE Exchange India’s branches joined hands to support the populace through various CSR initiatives. As part of the CSR initiatives, the branches are doing various activities to ...

Mr. Soumitro Chakraborty, CEO Finnovation | Awarded ‘Most Admired Leader for CSR & Sustainability 2017’ New Delhi, Delhi, India In a world where great ideas shape lives, thought leaders play a crucial role. Their knowledge and views influence people’s approach as their ideas are easily accessible and easy to ...

GoI wriggles out of Special Status to Jammu and Kashmir New Delhi: The Government of India (GoI) on Monday avoided taking a stand in the Supreme Court on special status to Jammu and Kashmir under Article 35A of the Indian Constitutions that empowers the state government ...

Mala Srikanth | A doctor teaching quality knitting to women in the hills Mala Srikanth has served as a doctor in the Indian Air Force; practised medicine for 30 years, including 12 years in Oman, and is now an inspiration for women in the hills of Ranikhet learning to be brilliant ...

PwC India & SEEDS India reconstruct school in J&K’s Kathua district PwC India in partnership with Sustainable Environment and Ecological Development Society (SEEDS) has handed over the reconstructed Government Higher Secondary School in Buddhi village of Kathua district, Jammu and ...

Uttarakhand becomes fourth ODF (rural) state People living in the rural areas of mountain state Uttarakhand have something to be happy and proud about. The state has become the fourth open- defecation free (ODF) state (rural areas) in the country after Kerala, ...

Delhi govt schools outshine private schools The Delhi government may not have many feathers to add on its cap, but one of the best things that the citizenry have witnessed in the recent years is a reformation in the school education system. And if the ...

West Bengal Govt gets UN Public Service Award for girl child scheme The West Bengal Government has been awarded by the United Nations for its girl child scheme Kanyashree Prakalpa. Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee received a trophy and certificate for the first prize at the UN Public ...

Azim Premji’s date with Carnegie Medal for Philanthropy Wipro Chairman Azim Premji is among nine recipients of 2017 Carnegie Medal of Philanthropy, considered the most prestigious award for philanthropy. Premji, the founder of Azim Premji foundation, is being honoured ...

Celebrating 200 years of independent thinking Established as the Hindu College in 1817 to provide liberal education to the Hindu community interested in learning English, the erstwhile Presidency College and now the Presidency University, has in the last two ...

Sudha Murthy, Infosys Foundation | ‘Technology and learning can greatly amplify human potential’ When the Companies Act made spending on Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) compulsory for businesses in 2013, she exclaimed: “I wish this had happened 18 years ago. I could have got so much done.” Read this ...

Indo-US relationship growing stronger Prime Minister Narendra Modi and President Donald Trump’s historic meeting went well on economic and defence ties. Eliminating terrorism remained the top-most priority for both the leaders. Defence and security ...

Let’s end the taboo Menstruation is a topic that has been neglected for years by policy-makers, government organisations and NGOs. It has innumerable myths and misconceptions surrounding it and discussions on it is still a taboo. The ...

BASF: India’s Dahej site gets certified for the production of sustainable oil palm products Two more BASF Group’s (“BASF”) production plants have received the Supply Chain Certificate of the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO), as announced on the occasion of the RSPO’s fifth annual European ...

All students of MGL Unnati clear JEE Mains Students of MGL Unnati, the CSR initiative of Mahanagar Gas Limited (MGL) for free coaching of meritorious children from e c o n o m i c a l l y weaker sections of the society; have brought laurels to the institute. ...

Invests in the Sustainable Development of Tribal Villages of MP Infosys Foundation, the philanthropic arm of Infosys, has partnered with Shivganga Samagra Gramvikas Parishad, a NGO working for development solutions of rural India, to work for the sustainable development of ...

Mauritius PM on a three-day visit to India Prime Minister of Mauritius Pravind Jugnauth on his first official tour after assuming office in January 2017 visited India on May 26. On his three-day visit to India, he met President Pranab Mukherjee and held ...

ONGC dedicates multi-specialty hospital to the people of Assam Chief Minister of Assam Sarbananda Sonowal, Union Minister for Petroleum and Natural Gas Dharmendra Pradhan, accompanied by Dinesh K. Sarraf CMD, ONGC dedicated the ONGC multi-specialty hospital Chaolung Sukaphaa to ...

HCL’s Pan India Symposiums for better understanding of CSR The HCL Grant: Pan India Symposiums” is visiting 10 cities. The objective of the nation-wide symposiums is to drive inclusive development models that are innovative, add equitable value and help NGOs gain better ...

Infosys Ties Up with Envirofit India to Deliver 37,200 Clean Cookstoves to Rural Indian Communities Infosys and cook-stove company Envirofit have come together to create a project that will deliver 37,200 stoves in Maharashtra and offset 1,50,000 tons of CO2. Targeting families in hard-to-access rural communities, ...

SWISS revamps Village in Bawana Swiss International Air Lines (SWISS) and its passengers enabled the refurbishment of 20 village houses and other facilities at SOS Children’s Village in Bawana, near Delhi. During a ceremony on May 17, the newly ...