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Teradata, a big data analytics and marketing applications company, announced its partnership with Project Nanhi Kali to support education initiatives for young girls in Mumbai, Pune and Hyderabad. UNICEF, among children not attending school, there are twice as many girls as boys, and among illiterate adults there are twice as many women as men....

Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Swachh Bharat Abhiyan seeks to promote a culture of cleanliness, hygiene and sanitation. Eager to gain momentum, the Centre is considering a proposal to ask private companies and PSUs to spend around 25- 30% of CSR funds on the cleanliness programme. It expects to garner close to Rs 2 lakh crore...

Eight women in different categories were awarded with ‘Women of Worth Awards’ on Monday in Mumbai. These women come from eight diverse fields like social impact, science and innovation, education, sports, environment, arts, literary contribution and business and entrepreneurship. The fifth edition of ‘Women of Worth Awards’ was hosted by L’Oréal Paris in association with...

Infosys Foundation, the philanthropic arm of Infosys, has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Asia Heart Foundation, to enable the adoption of robotics in healthcare. As part of the MoU, the Foundation has granted INR 8 crore to the Asia Heart Foundation. The grant will be used to purchase high-end equipment – namely the...

Ministry of Defence (MoD), Government of India and Skills Development Network Trust (SDNT) of Wadhwani Foundation announced a strategic partnership aimed to catalyze the Skill Development Mission of MoD, Manohar Parrikar, Minister of Defence and Dr. Romesh Wadhwani, Founder & Chairman, Wadhwani Foundation exchanged the MoU. The partnership aims at using technology through integrated e-content in...

Uttar Pradesh, one of the largest states in India, has almost 20% (31 million) of the total 164 million children aged 0 to 6 years living in India. Despite achieving 93% school enrolment in UP, only 7.9% children in Class I can read their level text or more and, less than 20% children in...

Yes Foundation, the social development arm of Yes Bank organized ‘Yes! I am the Change’ (YIAC) Awards at Nehru Centre, Mumbai felicitating the winners who expressed social issues through motion pictures. YIAC is a social film-making challenge conducted for the third year by Yes Foundation. Under the challenge, contestants are given a topic and 101...

Avashya Foundation, the philanthropic arm of Allcargo Logistics set up a skill development center to train under-served citizens especially the children of farmers who have committed suicide due to drought in the region. The foundation recently also launched an environment conservation program ‘Maitree, as part of its Corporate Social Responsibility (wp) activity. The skill development...

Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FICCI) organised its Corporate Social Responsibility (wp) awards on 24th November, 2015. Corporates won awards in their social spectrum. Thaawar Chand Gehlot, Minister for Social Justice & Empowerment, while inaugurating the FICCI wp Summit and Awards, reiterated that the one who is born has the right to live...

With the mandate of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) in India, there has been an urgent need of skilled professionals to carry out implementation of the law. A panel discussion was held in Mumbai, stressing on the need of having a well organised training centre in India that imparts knowledge and skill training to CSR...

Having worked on conservation films that have made a difference I’ve been lucky to have experienced the impact a single idea can have. Recently a moving and powerful film called Blackfish came out and exposed the ‘dirty little secret’ that marine parks didn’t want us to know. The 90 minute documentary follows the story...

Water Defense, founded by Hollywood actor Mark ‘The Hulk’ Ruffalo has launched a campaign to support the oil clean-up efforts taking place in the Sundarbans, the largest mangrove forest in the world. Last month an oil tanker capsized deep inside this UNESCO World Heritage site, spilling more than 350,000 liters of furnace oil into...