Social / CSR in India
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INDIA, 2015/07/28
India's former president and top scientist A P J Abdul Kalam, called as the country's "missile man" passed away on Monday (27 July) at 6.30 pm local time, doing what he liked best -- talking to students.
He was 83.
Kalam collapsed two minutes into a lecture at a management institute in the north-eastern Indian city of Shillong and was declared dead on arrival at a nearby hospital.
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AFGHANISTAN, 2015/01/20
The richest 1 % are likely to control additional than half of the globe’s total wealth by next year, the charity Oxfam reported in a study released on Monday. The warning about deepening world inequality comes just as the world’s business elite prepare to meet this week at the annual World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland.
The 80 wealthiest people in the world all own $1.9 trillion, the statement found, nearly the same all shared by the 3.5 billion people who occupy the bottom half of the world’s gain scale. (Last year, it took 85 billionaires to equal that figure.) And the richest 1 % of the people, who number in the millions, control nearly half of the world’s total wealth, a share that is as well increasing.
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INDIA, 2014/03/05
Two months next the devastating Christmas Eve rains, St Lucia continues to receive financial and technical support from allies and humanitarian organizations worldwide.
India is the new financial contributor to St Lucia's rehabilitation efforts, with a donation of USD $500,000.00.
On Thursday, Prime Minister Dr. Kenny Anthony expressed thanks, for such a generous donation on behalf of the Government and People of Saint Lucia.
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INDIA, 2013/07/25
The percentage of Indians living below the poverty line has fallen to 22 % from 37 % in just seven years, according to official data released Tuesday, but the figures were dismissed by critics as "deeply flawed".
Calculating poverty is a hugely controversial topic in Asia's third-major economy and the debate over the new numbers could prove particularly heated as they come ahead of an election year in which the Congress government is seeking a third term.
The poverty rate fell by a robust 15% points to 22 % in 2011-12 from 37 % in 2004-05, the figures from India's influential Planning Commission showed.
While economic increase slowed last year to a decade low of five %, the Congress government, in power since 2004, argues near double-digit expansion in previous years has driven a dramatic reduction in poverty in the country of 1.2 billion people.
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INDIA, 2013/05/01
In January, at the same time as Rahul Gandhi finally accepted the post of vice president of the Congress party – the country’s dominant political party since its independence in 1947 – thousands of elected representatives and millions of supporters were relieved. The next of both the party and the country was presently ensured.
It happened the usual way for Congress: the heir of the Gandhi family was appointed. At no time mind that for a very long time Rahul balked at the responsibility to become the party’s number two, alongside his mother Sonia, the party’s president. His father, Rajiv, served as Prime Minister of India, and so did his grandmother, Indira – they were both assassinated.
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INDIA, 2013/05/01
It is not hard to imagine how the French government (or their counterparts in Athens or Washington) would dream of such a thing: escaping the monthly stress of publishing unemployment figures .In India, the national jobless rate simply doesn't get calculated, and the topic is virtually absent from media and political debate.
If you look hard enough, though, it is possible to find an official unemployment rate, calculated... each five years, based on the collection of statistics from the National Sample Survey.
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INDIA, 2013/02/26
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INDIA, 2013/01/09
A leading Indian scientist and policymaker is calling on developing nations to adopt an "emerging paradigm" of affordable, less complex and inclusive innovation to promote development and cut poverty.
Raghunath Mashelkar, former director-general of India's Council of Scientific and Industrial Research, and presently president of the World Research Alliance, an organisation that promotes the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), says India has good models for innovation which are reducing complexity and the cost of goods, and which are leading to social inclusion and access to economic opportunities.
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INDIA, 2013/01/08
ITeS-BPO companies have registered a significant decline in work productivity during the last fortnight as one in three amongst the female worker has either reduced working hours next sunset or quit jobs next horrendous Delhi rape incident, according to quick random survey undertaken by ASSOCHAM Social Development Foundation (ASDF).
The unfortunate incident in the national outrage has impacted the productivity of women workforce not only in Delhi-NCR region but as well in other major cities like Chennai, Bangalore, Mumbai, Hyderabad, Pune, Ahemdabad, Lucknow, Jaipur, Dehradun, ASSOCHAM surveyed 2,500 women and they said it was due to long hours and shift jobs.
