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Antimicrobial resistance has been acknowledged as a major health crisis by several policymakers. However, the economic impact caused by this has not been considered completely. A report titled “No Time to Wait: Securing The Future From Drug Resistant Infections” from the Interagency Coordination Group(IACG) on Antimicrobial Resistance has put the financial fallout into perspective. The...

Many developed countries, including the US, Canada, and countries in the EU, have been exporting their trash to developing nations to be recycled and processed, though it often simply ends up in developing nations' landfills. Lack of resources in Southeast Asian countries, in particular, have prevented them from investing in waste management systems, resulting in anaccumulation...

Ahmedabad-based incubator International Centre for Entrepreneurship and Technology (iCreate) collaborated with EarthX, a US-based international environmental non-profit organization, to bring its flagship hackathon ‘EarthxHack’ to India. EarthxHack, a 32-hour hackathon was held concurrently in Dallas, USA and in Ahmedabad, India, on April 27, 2019 until April 28, 2019, at the iCreate campus in Dev Dholera...

Due to the concerted efforts of academics and disability activists alike, the dialogue around disability has moved far away from theories of ableism and segregation. Decades of work to change attitudes and approaches towards PwDs (persons with disabilities) has brought the concepts of diversity, equity and inclusion to the forefront of the disability discourse. In...

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...

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”...

Jawa Motorcycles’ #ForeverHeroes initiative that started with a fundraiser event in Mumbai continued with the handover of proceeds of the auction to Armed Forces Flag Day Fund (AFFDF) at a ceremony in the capital. The AFFDF is run by the Kendriya Sainik Board and is operated by a Managing Committee, headed by the Defence...