There are 266 companies that have spent either less or no amount on CSR and names are shocking as few of these big corporate have a perception of being the most responsible institution of India. Interestingly of these defaulting 266 companies, 33 of them did not spend a single rupee on CSR in FY15. Prominent among them are Idea Cellular, Tata Motors, PC Jewellers, Chettinad Cement, Finolex Cables, Parsvnath Developers, Monsanto, Supreme Infrastructure, Welspun India, Future Retail, GSPC, JP Power Ventures etc. Importantly these 33 companies accounted for Rs 156 crore in unspent amount. Other prominent company, who have defaulted…
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Election Commission of India (ECI) is launching a ‘Special Drive to enrol left out electors, with a special focus on first time electors from 1st July , 2017 , so as to move in the direction of Commission’s motto that ‘NO VOTER TO BE LEFT BEHIND’ . In order to reach out to maximum eligible voters, the ECI is collaborating with Facebook to launch first Nationwide “Voter Registration Reminder” on 1st July ,2017 . Withover 180 million people in India on Face book, the ‘Register Now’ button is designed to encourage Indian citizens to register themselves with the Election Commission of India. On 1st July, a notification of…
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(PTI) Protesting against the move to levy 28 per cent tax on furnitures under the upcoming GST regime, manufacturers in the national capital today began a three-day shutdown of shops. The Delhi Furniture Federation (DFF), which is organising the protest, said it was grossly unfair of the government to tax furnitures that are used by common man in hospitals, offices, schools and homes at 28 per cent while a luxury item like diamond is levied just 3 per cent tax. “We have made representations to the government for a revision but they denied any relief saying you used to evade taxes…
(PTI) The NDA’s presidential nominee Ram Nath Kovind today held a meeting with MPs and MLAs of the ruling BJP in Uttarakhand at Chief Minister Trivendra Singh Rawat’s official residence here to canvass support for himself. The closed-door meeting, chaired by the chief minister, lasted for two hours, official sources here said. All 57 party legislators and two out of the five party MPs from the state and one Independent MLA, Pritam Singh Panwar, were present at the meeting, they said. BJP MPs and former chief ministers Bhagat Singh Koshiyari, Bhuwan Chandra Khanduri and Ramesh Pokhriyal Nishank could not attend the…
MCA data shows in FY16, 5097 have reported their CSR spending for FY16 as of 31st December 2016. Interestingly, out of these reporting companies just 2691 companies made real contributions towards CSR during FY16. As far as spending is concerned, during FY16, 5097 companies spent Rs. 9822 crore on CSR. Much more shocking is that in FY16 top 10 companies contributed towards 32.7% (Rs.3207 crore) of the total CSR spend and 2079 companies spent less that Rs 1 crore on CSR, while 2406 didn’t spend a single penny on CSR, clearly depicting that CSR spend still remained a formality for…
(NDTV) Officials in India and the United States have worked hard and long to make Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s first visit to the White House during the Trump presidency a success. Ahead of their first meeting on Monday afternoon, US President Donald J Trump has received detailed briefings on India and relations between the two countries including the growing defence cooperation. He has also picked up a smattering of Hindi that he is expected to show off during his meeting with PM Modi, and later. “Donald Trump is learning Hindi words for the meeting with Prime Minister Modi… He will say…
PM Narendra Modi at Indian Community Event in Washington DC, USA
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