If I am to simplify all of life with a perspective that is distinctly marketing-oriented, there are just two types of people in the world ” a small set of marketing people on one side, and a whole large set of people being marketed to at the other end! Peek keenly at any person you…
This Rakshabandhan, Mumbai-based Plants and Animals Welfare Society (PAWS) will sell eco-friendly rakhis and similar merchandize to raise funds to support the cause of blind girl children and helpless animals. The funds generated by the event will be divided equally between PAWS and the National Association for the Blind. ‘This is an opportunity for an…
Children who were denied admission by various Delhi government schools can now hope to see classrooms, as Delhi high court (HC) ordered all the schools to admit nearly 850 students who were denied admissions for being physically challenged or belonging to economically weaker section. Relying on the Right To Education (RTE) Act meant to ensure…
This Rakshabandhan, Mumbai-based Plants and Animals Welfare Society (PAWS) will sell eco-friendly rakhis and similar merchandize to raise funds to support the cause of blind girl children and helpless animals. The funds generated by the event will be divided equally between PAWS and the National Association for the Blind. ‘This is an opportunity for an…
Children who were denied admission by various Delhi government schools can now hope to see classrooms, as Delhi high court (HC) ordered all the schools to admit nearly 850 students who were denied admissions for being physically challenged or belonging to economically weaker section. Relying on the Right To Education (RTE) Act meant to ensure…
Biodiversity suffers when the planet’s biocapacity cannot keep pace with human consumption and waste generation. The ‘ecological footprint’ tracks this in terms of the area of biologically productive land and water needed to provide ecological resources and services like food, fibre, and timber, land on which to build, and land to absorb carbon dioxide (CO2)…
The police station may be the last place where people in troubled marriages would go for counselling, but that is precisely what is happening at the Patan DSP office, where Gujarat’s first social counselling centre has been set up in a unique public-private partnership of the police with women’s rights agency Ahmedabad Women’s Action Group…
‘The H1N1 vaccine should be compulsory for healthcare workers, especially those who work in the isolation wards or with H1N1 patients. The vaccine should also be made mandatory for pregnant women, more so for those in their second or third trimesters,’ said Dr Om Srivastav, head of infectious diseases, BMC. The doctor was one of…
Combining faith with a social cause, a twin initiative to save the environment and the girl child was launched on August 1 at the revered Dargah Sharif in Ajmer, Rajasthan. It is an initiative of Nanhi Chhann Foundation, a non-profit organization that connects the issues of environment and girl child collectively to motherhood, and…
The police station may be the last place where people in troubled marriages would go for counselling, but that is precisely what is happening at the Patan DSP office, where Gujarat’s first social counselling centre has been set up in a unique public-private partnership of the police with women’s rights agency Ahmedabad Women’s Action Group…
