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A report by the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) has revealed that 30 cities of India may face severe water scarcity by 2050. The report listed a hundred cities across the world including the 30 Indian cities that are likely to face such severe water scarcity. The reason for this grave water risk has...

As India gears up for its biggest festival of the year, health can be the biggest thing to celebrate and cherish more than anything this year. The Fast&Up Great Health Festival is a tribute to this growing priority for the family. With the pandemic, people have become cautious and are taking all the precautionary measures...

This festive season, Amazon is transforming the act of gifting, with a learning concept that leverages storytelling. The company has launched ‘Gift a Story’ – a special initiative to engage children, whose parents or family members work as associates in the Amazon Fulfilment and Delivery network in India. The initiative collectively involves employees, who...

According to the Global Nutrition Report 2020, India is among the 88 countries that are likely to miss global nutrition targets by 2025. The report also identified the country as one with the highest rates of domestic inequalities in malnutrition. What are Global Nutrition Targets? In 2012, the World Health Assembly - the decision-making body of the...

Teenagers navigate a different landscape today than any of the generations before them. Your parents and you faced sets of challenges that varied from each other all those decades ago. What makes the current generation's adolescence unique is the omnipresence of social media and the internet. Granted, we had the internet growing up, but it...

The Smart Cities Mission, Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs, held a kick-off event for the Nurturing Neighbourhoods Challenge in collaboration with the Netherlands-based Bernard van Leer Foundation (BvLF) and with the technical support of WRI India. By focusing on the needs of young children aged 0-5 years and their caregivers in the public...

The unprecedented situations arising from COVID-19 require a new roadmap for recovery. The economy of India – and most of the world, for that matter – is in shambles. While businesses work towards regenerating the economy, corporate social responsibility and development initiatives have to rethink how they will uplift the most vulnerable sections of...

Vedanta's Sesa Football Academy (SFA) has earned accreditation under Khelo India Talent Development programme. This association with the Sports Authority of India (SAI) through Khelo India scheme will help to further improvise training, infrastructure and expand the reach of the project. Khelo India Scheme of the Ministry of Youth Affairs & Sports (MYAS), Government of...

Tata Motors in association with Avanti Fellow NGO is conducting special coaching classes and grooming unprivileged students to prepare for NEET, IIT JEE Mains and IIT JEE Advanced competitive exams. This year, 43 students skilled from this CSR programme have succeeded to ace the IIT JEE Mains while 27 students have cleared IIT JEE Advanced....

US Election 2020 is drawing to a nail-biting finish. American President Donald Trump and Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden are neck-to-neck after rancorous campaigning in the midst of a pandemic. Trump has been a climate change skeptic and went easy on mandates for corporate citizenship. What will happen to the global CSR landscape if...

VMinclusion Taara, one of India’s largest up-skilling programs, aimed at helping women restart their career after a break, has secured support from Cerner Corporation, a global health care technology company. Cerner is the program’s newest industry participant in India, supporting women looking for the training and the right opportunity to rejoin work. Several leading organizations...

Today marks the end of Ganga Utsav 2020, the festival which celebrates the glory of the historically and religiously important river Ganga. On November 4th 2008, Ganga was declared as the national river of India. Ganga Utsav Ganga Utsav is celebrated each year by National Mission for Clean Ganga (NMCG). The three-day festival aims to promote stakeholder engagement and...