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The non-medical use of prescription drugs is becoming a major threat to public health. Drug addiction has crippled youth across the globe. The problem is highly prevalent among the youth of Punjab in India. The All India Institute of Medical Sciences in Delhi conducted the first comprehensive study in 2015 to estimate the magnitude...

The Turbhe MIDC police are on the lookout for unidentified accused who forged documents of Hexaware Technologies and approached NGOs and charitable trusts across the country with a proposal to provide Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) funds worth over INR 100 crore in the name of the IT firm at Mhape, reports The Hindu. The scam...

While business outcomes are easily measurable through the calculation of numbers such as sales and profit, return on investment and annual growth, quantifying the actual impact of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) programmes is not as straightforward. For one, business outcomes are objective in nature and relate to the linear measure of how much financial value...

Blind man’s bluff, the game we oh so fondly played in childhood was sure fun. But it is scary for someone with gifted eyesight to think about living in that way for all their lives. Vision is one of the most amazing gifts given to us by nature. Unfortunately, there are many among us,...

Globally, a digital divide separates not only rich and poor but also men and women. Most countries have some distance to travel to open up access to digital technologies for women. Access and use of digital technologies is a powerful enabler of economic advancement for both individuals and entire economies, and it can have...

चुनाव देश के नागरिकों को अधिकार देता है अपना नेता चुनने का, चुनाव हक़ देता है भागीदारी का, चुनाव के जरिये हम अपने लोकतंत्र को और भी मजबूत बनाते है, चुनाव के जरिये ही देश में प्रधानमंत्री जैसे शिखर नृतत्व चुने जाते है, लोकतंत्र के इस महापर्व में आप जरूर वोट करें, और चुनाव...

Coffee is one of the most popular beverages in the world. While about 2.5 billion cups of coffee are consumed every day in the world, India is still lagging behind in the area. However, India is one of the top 10 coffee producers in the world. Coffee culture in India is rising over time. The...

The United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) formulation has been a more open and more inclusive process than the formulation of the earlier Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) driven by United Nations Member States. Whereas MDG 3 had a single target focussed on education, SDG 5 proposes a range of targets to end discrimination, violence and...

By Bill Gates Can goats empower women? In one of the poorest areas of India, they already are. This is thanks to a new team of health workers who are training rural women how to gain financial independence by raising healthier goats. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TQ9RZfjitSQ The health workers are goat nurses known as “pashu sakhis,” which means “friends of the animals”...

A 29-year-old Ashish Sharma quit his job in August 2017, to start a 17,000 km walk with an aim to rescue all the child beggars and make India child begging free. His determination towards the cause kept him going despite being abducted once, affected by jaundice and getting mugged as he traversed the different...

The Shapoorji Pallonji Group integrated corporate social responsibility and employee engagement to break preconceived ideas about the capabilities of the differently abled, with the ‘Breaking Barriers Olympics’. The daylong event with Cricket, Badminton and Carrom competitions had a special focus on integrating the organization’s differently abled workforce from EuroAble into all sports and games. EuroAble...

It is World Malaria Day today, and SBI General Insurance says there is a reduction in the number of claims due to Malaria in India. The company has seen a significant decline in the data of paid claims for this disease in the last 3 years. As per the data released by SBI General Insurance,...