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    How Corporate India contributes to women’s economic empowerment – through CSR and business practices

    2019-04-19T09:25:20+00:00April 17th, 2019|2019, Women's Edition – April 2019|

    Samhita’s recent report, supported by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), highlights initiatives by corporates for women's economic empowerment. India is one of the first countries in the world to formalise the role of corporate social responsibility (CSR) in nation building through Section 135 of Companies Act, 2013, which mandates eligible companies to spend 2 per cent of their net profits on social development. Schedule VII of the Act defines ‘promoting gender equality and empowering women’ as a key cause [...]

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      India’s Soft Power – A long shot perspective

      2019-04-23T07:09:49+00:00April 17th, 2019|2019, Home Page, Women's Edition – April 2019|

      We need to focus on quality, training, excellence and investment for India’s soft power to be globally recognised, asserts an Indian arts expert. India is the world’s largest democracy. India has a global presence thanks to its economically successful diaspora, a successful IT industry and its internationally loved cuisine, cinema, dance and music. Our much-appreciated multi-culturalism, religious pluralism and the heritage of yoga, Ayurveda and philosophy also play a vital role in establishing India’s soft power globally. A survey of [...]

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        Why does India’s space adventure cause unease in the UK?

        2019-04-18T12:25:07+00:00April 16th, 2019|2019, Women's Edition – April 2019|

        India’s recent anti-satellite missile system (A-SAT) test resulted in aftershocks of a different kind in Britain, which does not own similar hi-tech hardware. “The UK is still bankrolling India despite its recent launch of the satellite – a hi-tech piece of hardware that the UK does not even own within its own defence systems,” noted a UK daily soon after India’s headline-grabbing space experiment. Mission Shakti propelled India into an elite club of four countries, alongside China, Russia and the US, to successfully deploy the A-SAT technology [...]

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