Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of In Re: News Item Titled "Neglected Katora Houz in Hyderabad’s Golconda Fort Cries for attention appearing in ‘The Siasat Daily’ dated 25 May 2025". The application was registered suo-motu based on the news item titled “Neglected Katora Houz in Hyderabad’s …
The Golden Peacock Awards Jury conferred the award to Tata Steel at the 4th Global Conference on Social Responsibility in Vilamoura, Portugal New Delhi: Tata Steel, world
Bangalore has traditionally been strong on voluntary initiative and this has spawned a new public private partnership venture to come to grips with the city's intractable problems. The Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) in Karnataka and prominent NGO Janaagraha have taken the lead to form Bangalore City Connect. The thought …
Toxic waste is a problem. Whose? RE 0.70 buys one of the cheapest paracetamol pills in the Indian market. An essential drug, it needs to be kept inexpensive. Manufacturing such drugs has a much bigger cost that is never factored into the pricing: pharma factories release large quantities of slurry, …
After TERI Award for HIV/AIDS initiatives this year, Tata Steel has now bagged CII-ITC Sustainability Award 2008 for its corporate social responsibility efforts. Competing with many business organisations, the company bagged the award after a two-part assessment process involving a site visit followed by jury investigation. It is not the …
This study explores the relationship between corporate social performance (CSP) and corporate financial performance (CFP) within the context of a specific component of CSP: corporate charitable giving. A model of the determinants of the extent of corporate charitable giving is estimated and used as the basis of a classification that …
SAN FRANCISCO: Green is no longer just for hippies. Over the past couple of years, mainstream companies have started to realize that they need to fundamentally rethink their environmental policies, and while some still see the issues in terms of compliance, risk management or marketing, others see business opportunity. Companies …
Societies have always searched for an ideology and an institutional framework to balance collective and private interests. In the last century, this struggle played out as a confrontation between two clearly defined ideologies
TIMES NEWS NETWORK New Delhi: Representatives from corporate houses, NGOs and government discussed the role of private companies in supplementing societal good through effective synergy and partnership at a public policy forum on corporate social responsibility and sustainable development, organised by Times Foundation at Indian Society of International Law on …
In December 2006, Tata Power Company (TPC) Ltd., India’s largest private power utility, won the bid for establishing a 4000 MW Ultra Mega Super-critical Thermal Power Project (the Project). Coastal Gujarat Power Ltd. (CGPL) will set up the plant in Tunda Village, Mundra taluka,1 Kutch District, Gujarat State in Western …
The Access to Medicine Foundation, based in Haarlem, the Netherlands, has developed a set of criteria to assess how ethically pharmaceutical companies perform towards developing countries. It will make its ranking available online from 16 June and hopes investors will use it to decide which companies to invest in, while …
"IF THE best way to create the future is to invent it, we say the second-best way is to finance it." John Doerr is only half joking. He is one of the most influential venture capitalists in Silicon Valley, and he knows a thing or two about financing the future. …
CROSSING OVER: A little girl in Rajasthan goes to a state school supported by Mahindra & Mahindra Every year, the 100-year old Tata Steel trains batches of 10-15 unskilled women to operate cranes, earth movers and blast furnaces at its Jamshedpur plant. Eschewing cleaning, sweeping and odd jobs, the women, …
Healthy Brew: Differently-abled children benefit hugely from the training provided at Tata Tea's vocational centres (Pic By C.P. Shanmugham) The verdant rolling hills of Munnar, a tourist hub in Kerala, God's own country, did nothing to ease the pain in the body and mind of Banumathi, a 20-year-old unemployed villager …
Hospet, a small town around 350 km from Bangalore, is perennially cloaked in a red dust that emanates from the scores of pit iron ore mines that dot the area. According to numerous watchdog groups, such as
Trying Hard: India's largest private sector company is making a late but concerted entry into CSR (Pic By Subhabrata Das) It's 1 am on 9 May 2008. The dark sky above the industrial belt in Hazira is barely visible. Thick smoke and fiery ochre flames continuously billow out from the …
