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The government's spending on social services, such as health and education, increased during the past year. According to the Economic Survey 2021-22 released on 31st January 2022, the Centre and state governments earmarked 8.6% of GDP for social services, spending of Rs. 71.61 lakh crore in the current financial year. This is 9.8 per...

As businesses and corporates undergoes a paradigm shift leveraging ESG measures to compute the ethical and sustainable impact of their investments, Ministry of Electronics & Information Technology (MeitY) Centre of Excellence (CoE) for IoT & AI in collaboration with KITS (Karnataka Innovation & Technology Society) and Nasscom launched the 2nd edition of the Enterprise...

YVO’s Future Leaders Programme (FLP) is inviting applications from students and educational institutions to join its new batch, beginning in March 2022. The programme introduces social entrepreneurship to young minds, combines leadership and social service and makes social service more accessible to youth aged 16-25 years. Future Leaders Programme (FLP) was launched in 2020 by...

Biologists from the Nature Conservation Foundation and the Wildlife Institute of India have published the first ever pictorial field guide to the Trees of Arunachal Pradesh, a region famed for its biological diversity. Authored by three seasoned field biologists - Dr. Navendu Page of the Wildlife Institute of India, Dr. Aparajita Datta and Bibidishananda Basu...

Diagnostics service provider Metropolis Healthcare is pleased to announce the launch of the 3rd edition of MedEngage Scholarship program and is now inviting applications from the final year MBBS and MD/DNB students. The last date to apply for this programme is 18th January 2022. For more details of MedEngage Scholarship programme, students can log onto...

Federal Bank had invited applications for Federal Bank Hormis Memorial Foundation Scholarships for the academic year 2021-22. The last date has been extended to 31st January 2022. Students belonging to the States of Kerala, Tamil Nadu, Gujarat, and Maharashtra are eligible to apply for the scholarship. Selected students will be reimbursed 100% of tuition fees and...

UltraTech Cement has invited notable architects, experts and bright talent from the student community in the engineering and architectural sectors to register for the 5th edition of its IndiaNext initiative. The entry kits and details of the competition are available on www.ultratechindianext.com The theme of this year’s IndiaNext initiative is ‘Build with Speed’, in which India's...

For the third year in a row, #Unlabel, the flagship talent event of Bengaluru-based NGO 'Mitra for Life,' showcases talented people with Autism and other special needs. The event was organised by Mitra for Life with the goal of allowing the young performers to be recognised as artists rather than people with special needs. The...

14 philanthropists have joined the Giving Pledge this year, bringing the total number of signatories to 231 from 28 countries. Now in its 11th year, the Giving Pledge is a global, multi-generational commitment by some of the world’s wealthiest individuals and couples to give the majority of their wealth to charitable causes, either during...

Finding employment is often very difficult for persons with disability. Even with reservations provided to them, it is not very easy on them to find a suitable job. There are a total of 12.9 million persons with disabilities in the country. If such a large number of people are not able to contribute to...

According to the recently released World Inequality Report 2022, India is now among the most unequal countries in the world. The report released by the World Inequality Lab, aims to promote research on global inequality dynamics. It report presents the most up-to-date synthesis of international research efforts to track global inequalities. Distribution of Wealth in India According to the report, the poorest half of...

NITI Aayog in partnership with Bharti Foundation, the CSR arm of Bharti Enterprises, launched Convoke 2021-22. Convoke is a National research Symposium which aims at addressing challenges in imparting education and strengthening its quality with special focus on all teachers, educationists, heads of schools across India. Through this platform, School Teachers/ Heads/Principals of Government Schools...