Corporate Affairs Minister Nirmala Sitharaman has exhorted India Inc to expand CSR reach to poor states like Jharkhand, Chattisgarh, Bihar and North East region. Appreciating that companies have spent about Rs 13,000 crore in 2018 under Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR), she said, this is very Read More.....

Korean tech giant LG has decided to sponsor 800 cornea eye transplant surgeries across India under its initiative ‘Karein Roshni’ in association with two eye hospitals. The initiative assumes significance as India is home to a third of the world’s blind population. The country has about 12 million Read More.....

State Bank of India (SBI) has launched a unique ‘Green Reward Points’ programme to onboard its YONO customers in the sustainability journey. Under this programme, SBI inspires customers to pledge earned ‘Green Reward Points’ to a pool created as ‘YONO SBI Green Fund’ which is managed by SBI Foundation Read More.....

Tata Trusts has challenged the move of the income tax department of reopening of its assessment on the ground that it has already surrendered registration provisions under the I-T Act. It has pleaded that levy of additional income tax when a charitable trust converts into or merges with a non-charitable Read More.....

Credit Suisse has inaugurated a sports facility at the Mumbai campus of NGO Jai Vakeel Foundation for intellectually challenged children as part of the company’s CSR initiatives in India. The new sports facility, inaugurated by the company’s CEO India Mickey Doshi on October 12, offers special Read More.....