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Feeding India, an award-winning non-profit organisation working towards solving the challenges of food wastage, hunger and malnutrition, is now a part of the Zomato family. After witnessing the magnitude of food wastage in a wedding, Ankit Kawatra quit his job and founded Feeding India along with Srishti Jain in 2014. Since then, the team with...

Kotak Mahindra Bank Ltd. (Kotak) today announced its CSR Programme in Sports in collaboration with the NGO - Pullela Gopichand Badminton Foundation (Foundation) based in Gachibowli, Telangana. Under the alliance, Kotak, Pullela Gopichand - the Indian badminton legend and the Pullela Gopichand Academy, which is part of the Foundation, will work together to develop a world-class...

The Global Goals World Cup (Mumbai) was conducted on Saturday, as part of a multi-nation effort to support the United Nations’ 17 global Sustainable Development Goals. Focused on driving women to action, unified by sport, the GGWCup was organized by Dubai-Headquartered Sustainable Mindz & Denmark-based Eir Soccer, in partnership with United Nations Development Programme (UNDP),...

एक कहावत है, गरीब की थाली में जब पुलाव आ जाये तो समझों कि देश में चुनाव आ गया है, वही कुछ हो भी रहा है, चुनावी साल है, हर एक राजनीतिक दल चुनावी चाल चल रही है, कोई पूछ रहा है हाऊ इज दी जोश तो कोई पूछ रहा है कि हाऊ इज...

With an aim to bring about behaviour change towards ensuring cleanliness, Reckitt Benckiser has unveiled its awareness campaigns focusing on ‘Hand Hygiene’ and ‘Sanitation’ at the Kumbh Mela. With close to 12 crore people visiting the Kumbh this year, expected to be the world’s largest gathering of people and maintaining a clean and hygienic...

Municipal Corporation of Greater Mumbai (MCGM) has tied up with wildlife channel Animal Planet to sensitize citizens of Mumbai, especially children, about the importance of wildlife. MCGM will launch its 3D Theater located inside V.J.B. Udyan & Zoo, powered with world class content from Animal Planet, starting February 1, 2019. The entry to the theatre...

ActionAid India, an agency working with vulnerable communities since 1972 to further social and ecological justice, in partnership with WATConsult, a digital agency in the Dentsu Aegis Network's bouquet, has launched #JoinTheDots, a campaign to highlight child sexual abuse. The campaign aims to prevent the incidence of abuse as well as encourages adults to...

Investing on the basis of Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) criteria is rapidly gaining ground in international capital markets, with over $20 Trillion in assets under management, or around a quarter of all professionally managed assets around the world. New research shows that ESG strategies adopted by funds are yielding higher returns, higher profitability, lower...

With a view to building strength, stability and self-reliance among people, Housing.com has partnered with Habitat for Humanity India to build affordable homes for families in need of respectable shelter. As a start to the partnership, employees from Housing provided their sweat equity to build homes for four families in JJ Colony, Bawana in Delhi. Anchored by the...

Samsung Electronics has announced that the company will start taking steps this year to replace plastic packaging materials with paper and other environmentally sustainable elements. From the first half of 2019, the packaging used currently for Samsung’s products and accessories – ranging from mobile phones and tablets to home appliances – will be substituted with...

N/Core, the Bangalore based incubator for non-profit start-ups, celebrated the graduation of ten non-profits solving problems of poverty through innovative solutions in education and housing. The open cohort received over 1150 applications from architects, educators, and artists, which was jointly supported by Mphasis F1 Foundation (Mphasis’s CSR arm), Omidyar Network and D.E. Shaw India CSR....

Star Suvarna, one of the leading entertainment Kannada channel join hands with Child Rights and You (CRY) to support girl child education. The channel is going a step ahead by focusing on gender bias through their new TV show Mounaraga. The program is an upcoming fiction show which speaks about gender equality and voices out against...