CSR and business ethics are now part of IIM courseware

Aug 18, 2010

Students studying masters in business administration at Indian Institute of Management, Lucknow, will not just learn about cliched capitalism and corporate profitability but will also get to understand concepts including common good, social responsibility and ethical equity, as the institute will add such

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Mere setting up of state human rights commission would not serve any purpose: Justice Balakrishnan

Aug 18, 2010

Addressing a meeting of representatives of state human rights commissions in New Delhi, on August 17, National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) Chairman Justice KG Balakrishnan said that a mere setting up of state human rights commission would not serve any purpose, if they

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NGO: Ninety per cent senior citizens have no social security

Aug 17, 2010

‘About 66 per cent of the senior citizens in the country cannot afford to eat two square meals a day and 90 per cent of them have no social or health security,’ said NGO HelpAge International while observing August 16 as Senior Citizens

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Amnesty International to expand network in India

Aug 16, 2010

Amnesty International, a global human rights body, is keen to have a ‘more vibrant’ presence in India and other developing countries in its efforts to make it truly international, said its new Secretary General Salil Shetty. Shetty, who came to Amnesty after seven

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PM’s I-day gift: ‘No tax’ for you if anybody in system is found guilty of corruption

Aug 15, 2010

Perhaps, never in the history of the world has there been any head of state who could be as confident of his governance as India’s Prime Minister Manmohan Singh is. Singh has committed not to charge any tax if anybody in the government

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CWG debris causes dengue in capital: NGOs

Aug 13, 2010

Slamming the Commonwealth Games, activists in Delhi are asking that the mega-event be called off. The activists accused the CWG officials of violating and denying basic human rights to the poor and the backward in the garb of development. ‘We can still call

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India is where pizza reaches home faster than an ambulance or the police: Salman Khan

Aug 13, 2010

‘What’s India? A nation where pizza reaches home faster than an ambulance or the police, where you get car loan at five per cent interest but education loan at 12 per cent, where a kilo of rice costs Rs 40, but mobile sim

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CWG debris causes dengue in capital: NGOs

Aug 13, 2010

Slamming the Commonwealth Games, activists in Delhi are asking that the mega-event be called off. The activists accused the CWG officials of violating and denying basic human rights to the poor and the backward in the garb of development. ‘We can still call

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India is where pizza reaches home faster than an ambulance or the police: Salman Khan

Aug 13, 2010

‘What’s India? A nation where pizza reaches home faster than an ambulance or the police, where you get car loan at five per cent interest but education loan at 12 per cent, where a kilo of rice costs Rs 40, but mobile sim

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Kurla in Mumbai is the sickest suburb

Aug 11, 2010

The suburban Kurla in Mumbai is a hub of almost all deadly diseases, as it has been reporting highest number of malaria, diarrhoea, dengue and HIV cases in the last two years. Praja Foundation, a Mumbai-based voluntary organization, on August 10 released a

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