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Keralites Ensure Online Education to all Students Amid COVID-19
COVID-19 lockdown in India caused a major disruption in the schedule of school-going children of the country. With new norms to be followed, the schools across the country were shut down resulting in compromised education status of young students of India. Considering the uncertainty regarding the duration of COVID-19 lockdown or social distancing norms,...
Pride Month 2020: Trans-inclusion in corporate India
As Pride Month 2020 comes to a close, let's turn our attention to trans-inclusion at corporate houses in India. All central government departments were recently asked to include ‘transgender’ as a separate category of gender for recruitment in civil services and other posts, according to an order by the Ministry of Personnel, Public Grievances...
Reversing Land Use Change to Prevent Future Pandemics
United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD) has said that Land Use Change, prepares the ground for zoonoses like Covid-19, and it should be reversed. Land Use Change reduces the physical distance between animals and humans, which increases the interaction and conflict between the two. These interactions often result in zoonoses like Covid-19.
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Top Menstrual Hygiene CSR Initiatives in India
Why is a natural bodily process a topic of shame for women and teenage girls? Access to sanitary care products was hard; the COVID-19 pandemic has made it all the more difficult, especially for Indian women in the villages. Menstruation is a taboo word and various rituals demonising the natural female process culturally bind...
Environment Friendly Start-ups in India
Atmanirbhar Bharat and its easy money components are encouraging more youth to startup their own businesses, in an effort to solve the problems that are faced by our society in an innovative way. India being a tropical country faces a major brunt of environmental degradation and global warming. Considering this, many startups have shaped...
Sushant Singh Rajput – Actor, Philanthropist and a Kind Soul
The country is reeling in shock over the passing of the talented, smart and popular actor Sushant Singh Rajput. The much-loved actor, took his own life at his apartment, leaving his family, colleagues and fans in a dark abyss.
Rajput was a kind soul who tried to help out the society and reduce the sufferings...
What is the government doing for health-tech in India?
India had begun taking big steps to leverage technology in the healthcare sector much before the pandemic hit. In the segment of health-tech in India, polices can focus either on devices or technology or both. We take you through the public policy on this subject that has become more crucial since the spectre of...
World Blood Donor Day 2020: NGOs for Blood Donation in India
Every two minutes someone needs blood in India. According to a study by India Spend, India faces a shortage of 1.9 million blood units every year. This problem has reached new heights in the time of COVID-19 wherein social media is flooded with requests for blood from family members because the blood donation camps...
India’s First Solar-Powered Ferry – Cost Effective and Environment Friendly
India has always been leading the world in terms of problem solving and innovation. With innovations like Ecoclean 2300 for purifying the sewage water or Waste decomposer for waste management, Indians have time and again proved their worth by providing cost-effective and energy-efficient solutions for community problems. This quality has always managed to earn...
CSR funding in post-lockdown India
As India gradually unlocks and the private sector gets accustomed to the 'new normal', where does corporate social responsibility (CSR) stand? Let's take stock of CSR funding in post-lockdown India.
The economic recession we are experiencing due to the pandemic has already seen company stocks performing poorly across the board, from the SME startups to...
Transgender Community – Messiah of the Poor During Lockdown
One of the most castigated communities in India is the messiah of several poor people during the COVID-19 Lockdown in Gujarat. The Transgender community in the Vadodara city of Gujarat is feeding the needy across the city despite facing the stigma.
Kinnar Noori Kanwar, a transgender individual in Vadodara along with the members of Kinnar...
#WFH – India Inc setting up work-from-home policies
Tech giants Google, Facebook, Microsoft and Twitter have asked employees to continue working from home for the remainder of the year, setting the standard for what could be the new normal in the corporate world. Search engine (and multi-hyphenate) Google has extended its work-from-home (WFH) policy at least until next year, as CEO Sundar...