The participatory corporate social responsibility (CSR) activities with a collaborative effort by the beneficiaries and ensuring transparency by publishing annual score cards can help corporate houses in achieving result-oriented CSR, Jayant Sinha
When it is about populism the governments show unusual hurry and go to any length to get it in the public domain disregarding values and hard numbers. Denying such unethical pleasure, the supreme court on Thursday refused to hear Maharashtra gover
The house should function. With the country facing imminent shortage of coal to run power plants, it is imperative that parliament give green signal to the coal block allocation. But the Rajya Sabha is in turbulence over the opposition demand. It
The Indian Institute of Foreign Trade (IIFT) will hold the fourth empirical issues in international trade and finance (EIITF) conference on December 18 and 19. EIITF brings together academics, policy researchers, multilateral agenci
There are black days in history. Opaque and beyond the pale of human understanding. We know it is not a perfect world and we are imperfect people and, therefore, we do imperfect things. But these black days are not about imperfection. They fall so
With political parties getting unaccounted funds to the tune of over 70%, the Association for Democratic Reforms (ADR) has asked for a strict regulation of donations of this kind being used in the country’s electoral process. The ADR says th
The Brisbane Exhibition and Convention Centre hosted a show recently entitled Delivering Global Economic Resilience. The introductory performer, Angel Gurria, is director general of Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD). Cou
Shankar Aggarwal, secretary, ministry of urban development, admitted that our country has not been managing water resources properly, but the government-planned smart cities will effectively deal with the challenge of water shortage by plugg
The disinvestment drive of the NDA government kicked off on December 5 with an offer for sale (OFS) in public sector behemoth Steel Authority of India (SAIL). The stake sale of 5% in SAIL through one-day offer was over-subscribed by more than two
A mid-December Delhi night brings up images of cold and eerily empty roads, for anybody. And for a woman out in the street, it is nothing but constant threat of rape or death. However, a group of citizens chose to challenge this fea
The Uber rape incident has brought radio taxi services under scrutiny. Women are not safe anywhere if they are alone with a man. But they need to go out and work, sometimes even at odd hours. What would the solution be then, a cab service driven o
Fifty-two-year-old Kumar has seen a lot of queues in his life. The diabetic is now happy that at least one has disappeared from his life. When he visits the Tambaram taluk government hospital at Chrompet in Chennai for his monthly check-up, he wal
Two days after 14 CRPF personnel were killed in a Maoist attack in Chhattisgarh on December 1, the government at the centre formed a high-level committee to review the standard operating procedure (SOP) to fine-tune its anti-Naxal strategy. Formin
Achyuta Samanta, noted social entrepreneur and founder of the Kalinga Institute of Social Sciences (KISS) as well as the KIIT group of institutions, has been honoured with the prestigious Gusi Peace Prize International – also called ‘A
Whistle-blower officer Sanjeev Chaturvedi has suffered further setback as his cadre transfer from Haryana to Uttarakhand
At the Panchavati hall within the precincts of the prime minister’s residence known as 7 RCR, it was the most powerful gathering of top political executives on December 7. All the chief ministers had reached the hall much before the time. Th
Today`s (December 9) newspapers are splashed with a powerful image. A woman police officer, ACP Shweta Chauhan, Sarai Rohilla, is seen leading Shiv Kumar Yadav to Tis Hazari Court in Delhi. Only three days ago, the taxi driver from Mathura was the
Outside it’s a nice, pre-winter morning. Inside incense sticks fill the air with sweet, sticky, holy smoke as the faint light from incandescent bulbs fights its way to the dark cemented floor of a south Delhi branch of State Bank of India (S
Note: the purpose of this article is not to dig out flaws in the most noble and desperately needed financial inclusion project launched with intense passion and force by unarguably the most well intended and forceful prime minister of this cou
Cisco and ILFS Technologies Ltd (ITL), a technology solutions company of Infrastructure Leasing and Financial Services, announced on Monday a strategic collaboration to utilise the Internet of Everything (IoT) to develop digital solutions for Indi
