Tata Power facilitates ‘Right for Food Campaign’ for the underprivileged community in Mumbai
PRESS RELEASE Tata Power, India’s largest integrated power company, has been relentlessly contributing towards the welfare of the communities that surround its area of operation. In line with this commitment, Tata Power strengthened Public Distribution System by facilitating ‘Right to Food Campaign’ for the underprivileged community around Tata Power’s Trombay power plant. The objective of […]
SIAM inaugurates the second edition of its Annual CSR Conclave
PRESS RELEASE Underlining its commitment towards the nation, the Society of Indian Automobile Manufacturers today inaugurated the second edition of its Annual CSR Conclave in New Delhi on December 21. Aptly themed as ‘Building the Nation, Responsibly’, the Conclave saw all the key SIAM members and other stakeholders coming together to ensure inclusive development of […]
MLK DAY: FINDING LOVING WAY TO RESOLVE CONFLICTS
PEACE AND JUSTICE Martin Luther King, Jr is the only non-president of US to have a national holiday dedicated in his honour, reports PRIYANKA TOMAR Every year on the third Monday of January, US observes its annual commemoration to honours the life and contributions of America’s greatest champion of racial justice and equality, the leader […]
OIL INDIA: HELPING UNDERPRIVILEGED TO ACHIEVE LIFE’S GOAL
INITIATIVE Farmers experience a tough life. They are the sole reason for fulfilling our daily requirement for food. A farmer’s income is generated by selling the crops. If the crops are good, then it got sold and if the crops are bad then life becomes miserable. Though, they feed the entire humanity, their life conditions […]
BONDED LABOUR CHALLENGES AND REMEDIES
Despite a Parliament Act and Supreme Court order, existence of bonded labour points to the lack of awareness on the ground, reports IMMANUEL CYRUS The International Labour Organisation (ILO) along with Australia-based Walk Free Foundation (WFF), recently published a report titled ‘Global Estimates of Modern Slavery: Forced Labour and Forced Marriage 2017’, that said that […]
IIRD CONCLAVE FOR EMPOWERING VILLAGES
Away from existing practices and myths, organising Rural Conclave in Village Sholi of Himachal Pradesh and Launching of MISSION RIEV in IIRD Head office, Shimla has been an eye opening experience for every participant. Around 130 km away from Shimla city, conclave witnessed the participation of around 200 intellectuals from different walks of life from […]
LEADING THE NATION TOWARDS SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT
Development of Social Sciences in the world was plagued by three factors: (i) the unresolved dichotomy in western and eastern thinking about human nature, culture and society emerging from varying world-views; (ii) the assumed supremacy of western social sciences over the eastern texts; and (iii) the assumed supremacy of physical science knowledge when compared to […]
RIGHT TO EDUCATION: STILL TO BLOSSOM
Following the footprints of Mahatma Gandhi, the newly constituted government in the year 1950 made it clear that ‘promoting child education’ was the need of the hour.The Indian parliament elaborated the significant features of child education by incorporating various new provisions in the pages of Indian constitution. Apart from few constitutional articles, the main provisions […]
MOVING TOWARDS NEW INDIA IN NEW YEAR
The year 2017 was an eventful year for the CSR Times as it saw both the re-launch of the magazine in a refurbished avatar and also of our website csrtimes.org. The year was not just the year of revival for the CSR Times but also for the Indian economy and society. The year also marked […]
WADIA HOSPITALS ORGANIZES LITTLE HEARTS MARATHON 2018
EVENT 25,000 children participated to raise awareness for a Healthy Heart With increasing popularity amongst Children; LHM will expand to more cities in future — Ness Wadia Funds generated from the marathon to be utilised for the Paediatric Cardiac Surgery department ● In 2017, Wadia Hospitals conducted 200 Paediatric cardiac surgeries; This year (2018) it’s […]