A pan-India tribal conclave, Samvaad, organised by Tata Steel Foundation concluded with announcement of the results of Samvaad Fellowship 2020. The online format of the conclave brought together tribal communities from across the world. More than 3,000 people representing 114 tribes from 23 states and 5 UTs of India, and 17 countries including Sri Lanka,…
Three solutions aimed at solving Bengaluru’s traffic woes were proposed at the Mobility Champions programme, hosted in October by Young Leaders for Active Citizenship (YLAC) in partnership with the #BengaluruMoving campaign, World Resources Institute India (WRI), and Let Me Breathe (LMB). These solutions are aimed at decongestion, first- and last-mile connectivity, and non-motorised transport (NMT)…
The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has set up a Rs 500 crore ($65 million) fund to improve the country’s digital payments infrastructure. The Payments Infrastructure Development Fund (PIDF) will help in the deployment of physical and digital points of sale (PoS) infrastructure in tier-3 to tier-6 centres and north-eastern states. The fund will be…
Credit Suisse and Barefoot College International (BCI) have announced a three-year partnership that will support the latter’s ‘Women Prosper Initiative’ (WPI). The objective of this initiative is to equip women with the necessary skills so as to enable the building of resilient and prosperous rural communities. As part of this initiative’, 400 rural women in…
Mumbai-based abstract artist Krupa Shah has joined hands with Jan Seva Foundation to host an open online art competition, called #RayOfHope, against the backdrop of the Covid-19 pandemic. Amateur and professional artists of all age groups from India and around the world are being called upon to showcase their art, which needs to based on…
Thirty school students were recently felicitated at the 10th Annual Pramerica Spirit of Community Awards. The awards are given to young students who are working on making a difference in their communities. The children were felicitated with silver medallions and certificates of achievement. Anand Kumar, the “Super 30†founder, was the chief guest and presented…
On 14 January 2020, an open letter stating that climate change is a significant investment risk was released by BlackRock, the world’s largest asset management firm. In his annual letter to the chief executives of the world’s biggest companies that BlackRock has invested in, Laurence D Fink, its founder and chief executive, announced that his…
The Union budget for 2020″21 marginally increased the budgetary allocation for the environment ministry from the last fiscal year by nearly five per cent, with no change in the amount allotted to pollution control and climate change. Presented by finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman on February 1, Rs 3,100 crore has been allocated to the ministry,…
In its report on children, food and nutrition, the UNICEF warns that a high number of children are suffering the consequences of poor diets that is damaging their health and a food system that is failing them. The main reasons are poverty, urbanisation, climate change and poor eating choices. The report, titled The State of…
The Maharashtra State Road Development Corporation (MSRDC), Volkswagen Group India, and SaveLIFE Foundation have entered into a partnership to drive an initiative called Vision Zero to significantly reduce road-crash deaths and make the Old Mumbai-Pune Highway (NH 48) safe for all road users. The partnership aims to create a scalable and replicable model for road…
