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Jesuits: the Global Educationists to Discuss Climate Change

  St.Xavier’s Global Earth Summit IV, with the conference theme “Global Climate Change and Water Disasters” will be held on March 27-29, 2015 at DhyanAshram, Konchowki. The Conference is being organised by the Department of Environmental Science, St. Xavier’s College, Kolkata in association with the Social Justice and Ecology Secretariat (SJES), Rome, Kolkata Metropolitan Development …

AJAY S SHRIRAM IS NEW CII PRESIDENT. SUMIT MAZUMDER IS CII PRESIDENT DESIGNATE. NAUSHAD FORBES IS ELECTED CII VICE PRESIDENT

Mr. Ajay S. Shriram, Chairman and Sr. Managing Director of DCM Shriram Limited and Chairman of its subsidiary company, Shriram Bioseed Ventures Ltd. has been elected as the President of CII for the year 2014-15.  He succeeds Mr S Gopalakrishnan as the new President. DCM Shriram and the group has a turnover of approx. Rs.5700 Crores. The business portfolio of the Group comprises of Agri …

Men Who Matter : Pawan Kumar Ruia

Pipri, 21 KMs from Renukoot, in Uttar Pradesh. Call it the back of beyond, or the edge of the Hindi heartland, this idyllic town with its pristine environs has made its way into the corporate folklore of India. For, it was here that the irreplaceable Pawan Kumar Ruia, the single handed creator of the Ruia …

Pawan Kumar Ruia: Vision 2 lakh Crores – Kathakali Nandi

Poets, politicians, bureaucrats, scientists, sportspersons … the St. Xavier’s College, Kolkata has given the world some of her brightest sons and daughters. Achievers, whose exploits are the content of endless tales, of ballads extolling virtues for successive generations to take lessons from. However, the story of an army of Xaverians, who, armed with their B.Com …

INDUSTRIAL ACADEMIA INTERFACE TOWARDS SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT – Rev. Dr. S. Xavier, HOD, Dept. Environmental Studies, St. Xavier’s College, Kolkata.

The Ideal: In an Ideal Situation, Industry and Academy should be complementary to each other like pen and ink, car and petrol etc. The complementing nature of each other should have Industry providing resources for the sustenance of academic institutions, while the academic Institutions provide the brains and the brawn to run industries. The Academic …

“The future we want” requires “reconciliation with creation” – Xavier Savarimuthu, SJ,St. Xavier’s College, Kolkata, India

“The future we want” and “reconciliation with creation” were the two key themes of Rio +20 summit and General Congregation 35 respectively. “The future we want” for our well-being is going through a sea-change due to human and natural activities. The humankind has not paid heed to the Lord’s request of “till and take care”. …

JD Birla Institute celebrates International Women’s Day

Kolkata: 8th March, 2013: JD Birla Institute – Dept. of Human Development celebrated International Womens’ Day (IWD) 2013 here today by organizing a `Demanding Dignity Walk’ from Victoria Memorial to JD Birla Institute (main campus) in which students from city’s renowned institutes, St Xavier’s College, ILEAD, Shri Shikshayatan College, Loreto College, Rani Birla Girl’s College, …

Is Environmental Stewardship the Answer to all our Woes? – Shayantani Mitra

“We stopped checking for monsters under our beds when we realized they were inside us.” Global warming, soil erosion, deforestation, environment degradation, population explosion, resource depletion. . Are all words which have very quickly made it to our vocabulary. Children around the world are ‘forced’ to learn and study about the environment today. Organizations- both governmental …

St. Xavier’s Global Earth Summit III

  The 3rd St. Xavier’s Global Earth Summit will be held in the College Auditorium on February 22nd and 23rd, 2013. The theme of the summit will be “Environmental Stewardship and Corporate Social Responsibility”. The summit is being organised by the Department of Environmental Studies, St. Xavier’s College Kolkata along with the School of Engineering, …