In February, a nationwide early cancer-screening programme for women was launched in Mumbai by Indian Cancer Society and AstraZeneca Pharma India Limited. The c...
On 9th February this year, it was revealed that one of the most well-known global NGOs, Oxfam, covered up a 2011 investigation into the hiring of sex workers fo...
Sponsoring education for children is big in the world of corporates. A recent initiative to sponsor the education of girl children is ‘The Intuit RISE – Educati...
International Women’s Day (IWD) has much in common with the other famous and controversial day that falls on 14th February every year. Like Valentine’s Day, it ...
The Delhi government has asked five private hospitals in the city – Fortis Escorts Heart Institute, Max Super Specialty Hospital (Saket), Shanti Mukand Hospital...
The World’s Women 2015 report claims that the country with
the lowest sex ratio in under-5 mortality is India, with a ratio of 93 (93 boys
die before age ...
Walking blindfolded along with visually-impaired
school children, celebrated painter Jatin Das led the SCEH-IVI ‘Walk in the
Dark’ at Daryaganj, Delhi, to...
The men and women of Dharavi, the world’s largest slum, were quite curious about Kissa Yoni Ka, the Hindi translation of The Vagina Monologues, which they heard...
More than one-third of
under five-year-olds living in Delhi’s slums are malnourished, concludes a
study by Child Rights and You (CRY) and Alliance for Peo...
Anshu Gupta from Goonj
has been declared as Social Entrepreneur of the Year (SEOY) India 2012, by Schwab
Foundation for Social Entrepreneurship, a sis...
