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$5.5 Billion Plan Promises Polio-Free World In 5 Years

Polio is all but gone from the world. Finally, India celebrated its second polio-free year but the crippling disease is still there in African nations. The Health Groups...

by India Environment Portal

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The Call Of Nature

Each one of us while travelling in a bus is plagued by the same kind of worry – clean public toilets! The travellers have experienced a lot of inconvenience due to this...

by The Alternative

Women

The Bastar Land Grab: An Interview With Sudha Bharadwaj

A civil rights lawyer, a trade unionist and an activist - Sudha Bharadwaj - wears many hats. With an envious IIT-K degree in her hand, she could have easily moved to the...

by Aditya Nigam

Business and Economy

Sustainopreneurship - Business With A Cause

Wonder what would be the outcome of a perfect match between sustainability and entrepreneurship – Sustainopreneurship! It is a business model with a cause which aims to...

by RESET

Business and Economy

Climate Change May Reduce Crop Output By 18% In 2020: Pawar

A high degree of climate variability in our country compels us to spend a considerable part of income on adaptation. Based on an ICAR report, Sharad Pawar says that the...

by India Environment Portal

Health

Dedicated To Life: Friends2Support

Blood Donation is the best gift we can give to support a life in trouble. Motivated by this, Mr Shareef SK has launched www.friends2support.org with a mission to fulfill...

by Anu M

$5.5 Billion Plan Promises Polio-Free World In 5 Years

18 May 2013 by India Environment Portal

The Call Of Nature

18 May 2013 by The Alternative

Justice and Life for Sonali Mukherjee, The Acid Attack...

15 Jul 2012 by SonaliMukherjee

Dear Mr. Bhagat, Do You Judge Women Who Make Chapatis?

11 Feb 2013 by RichaJha

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i Governance The Urban-Rural Divide In Modi’s Gujarat Narendra Modi stormed to victory in Gujarat by appealing to the economic instincts of people and promising many benefits for the self-coined neo-middle class. While his policies and agenda aims to benefit the rich and urban; the rural and downtrodden section of the society still lags behind in... by Shivam Vij 0	i Health Dedicated To Life: Friends2Support Blood Donation is the best gift we can give to support a life in trouble. Motivated by this, Mr Shareef SK has launched www.friends2support.org with a mission to fulfill every blood request in the country and to connect individuals who are willing to donate blood. He joins the Halabol platform... by Anu M 0	i Social Welfare Do You Know Why Aadhaar Is NOT Compulsory? The relevance of the much hyped Aadhaar card is still a question; people are queuing up to get their cards without understanding its exact role or relevance. The question is- Why is Aadhaar voluntary? And the answer lies in the fact that it intrudes into people's privacy! It is a way to... by Sunalini Kumar 0
i Governance Disaster Management Authority Not Ready For Calamities - CAG TrustLaw: India's disaster relief agency suffers from "critical gaps" in its preparations for calamities, making it largely ineffective when responding to the numerous disasters the country faces such as floods and earthquakes, a government auditor's report clarifies.... by India Environment Portal 0	i Governance Will The Ban On Pornography Curb Sexual Abuse? Sex in our country is a taboo, thus India's on a roll to ban pornography. How many of us think that watching pornography increases sexual assaults? Some studies have proved that only a miniscule of people watching porn, sexually abuse others. Will the law decide the criminality of... by The Alternative 0	i Social Welfare I Have Already Given 25% Of My Wealth To Charity: Azim Premji The iconic businessman, Wipro's Chairman Azim Premji, has already given more than 25% of his wealth to charity. Signing the Giving Pledge, a brainchild of Bill Gates and Warren Buffett, the outstanding philanthropist sets a great example for other wealthy billionaires to come forward and... by India CSR 0
i Business and Economy Social Enterprise Empowers India’s Lowly Paid Salt Producers Lowly paid salt-workers and producers suffer from various diseases due to extreme working conditions. They hardly receive any gains compared to the market value of the salt. Sabras, a social enterprise, is working for self-employed salt producers to borrow money at much lower rates to help... by India CSR 0	i Business and Economy India's Wind Energy Output Up 1250% In A Decade: Report The news that India became the world’s fourth largest market for new wind power projects is like a whiff of fresh air. A country with enormous population needs to rely on renewable energy sources, and developing wind power projects is just the right step towards it. by India Environment Portal 0	i Environment Himachal Leading To Deforestation, Most Hit By Hydropower Projects The recent CAG report confirms the doubts and claims regarding the bad effects of hydropower projects in Himachal Pradesh; almost all of them are gobbling up forests, drying up water channels, and putting region’s natural ecology in severe imbalance. The report also points out that... by Himachal Watchers 0
i Governance Is There Anything Like ‘Copying’ Fairly? None of us thinks about the financial losses of publisher when we photocopy an entire book! Then how come this small-time photocopier in Delhi University is facing legal issues for photocopying a few chapters from some text book for students? As interesting the case is, as weird is the High... by Shivam Vij 0	i Children Autism Therapy: Time We separated The Essentials From The Add-Ons Autism will always require special learning environment which, given our educational system, looks impossible to achieve. With the plethora of therapies available, it becomes difficult to differentiate between the useful and the dangerous ones. And the real need is to differentiate between... by The Alternative 0	i Women What Rediff Could Have Done To Support Kavita Krishnan Against Rape Threats Activist Kavita Krishnan is invited by Rediff for an online public chat to discuss the rising incidence of rapes in the country. The lady herself received rape threats from the audience during the chat! Shockingly, Rediff took no responsibility of the abuse directed at the activist in time,... by Sunalini Kumar 0