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Updates From Professionals For Humanity On Nepal Earthquake

With the prayers from people like you, our organization under the leadership of Anita Singh has impacted more than 1000 survivors in Kathmandu and in remote villages. Earlier this week, our local...

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FORE School Awarded Best B School For Promoting Industry - Academia Interface

FORE School of Management, Delhi was awarded the lsquo;BEST B-SCHOOL FOR PROMOTING Industry - Academia Interface rsquo; in the National Education Excellence Awards 2015 organized by ASSOCHAM India,...

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Will Post-2015 Development Agenda Integrate Economic, Environmental And...

(CNS): Key consultative processes have been going on globally to gather the broadest voices with the intent to effectively shape the post-2015 sustainable development agenda. In the Asia Pacific region...

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Will HLPF Push For Accountability In Post-2015 Development Agenda?

Without robust accountability and monitoring mechanisms, how will people ensure that their governments deliver on the promises they make towards post-2015 sustainable development agenda? Past...

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Steady Decline in CAT Applications

The CAT data whichshow a decline of close to 10% (from 2.14 lac in 2012 to 1.94 lac registrations in 2014) in the number of MBA aspirants over the past 3 years. Does that mean the top B-Schools of the...

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Peace Advocate Declares The Urgency To Join Peace Movement And Amend...

ldquo;The Light Of The World rdquo;: Unveiling Of The Mindanao Peace Agreement Monument Manila amp; Maguindanao, Philippines- A peace advocate and Chairman of Heavenly Culture, World Peace, Restoration...

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More Updates From Nepal

It 39;s been a month since the first devastating earthquake struck Nepal. Since then, the country has endured almost a thousand aftershocks and another massive quake on May 12...This week, our Command...

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Senior Journalist And Social Activist Sai Prasan Is No More

New Delhi: It rsquo;s a matter of great grief that veteran journalist and social activist Sai Prasan has left this world. He died in Nagpur, Maharashtra on Sunday afternoon while travelling to Rourkela...

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Why the bear is back in Vietnam

Russia-Vietnam ties that seemed to be cooling after the end of the Cold War are warming up all over again. More than 20 years after Moscow abandoned its largest foreign base, Russian military aircraft...

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Be the change you want to see in the world: Pushpa Devi

Pushpa lives with her skilled-worker husband and four children mdash;2 girls and 2 boys. Apart from being a woman farmer, she also doubles up as an ASHA bahu (Accredited Social Health Activist worker)....

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A Woman Of Substance: Kalawati

Kalawati comes from a family of small farmers. Hers is a lsquo;joint and happy family rsquo; where she lives with her husband, 1 daughter, 2 sons, 1 daughter-in-law and 1 granddaughter. Her...

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'Pehchan' Has Given Transgender People A New 'Pehchan' (Identity)...

So said Priya when I met her at the community dinner on the eve of the recent 3rd Hijra Habba (Habba is a Kannada word meaning festival) event organized by Pehchan project in association with India...

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Tax cut on tobacco under High Court Lens

The state of deserts experienced a high temperature in the recent past not because of weather component but the clash of opinions regarding tax rise on tobacco in the state. The High Court rsquo;s...

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Join The Crusade: Big Push For Transgender And Hijra Welfare

It was indeed a humbling experience for me to be part of the Third National Hijra Habba (festival of transgenders) held recently in the capital city of India. Organised by India HIV/AIDS Alliance...

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Wrong Development Priority In Spite Of Socio-Economic Census And National...

(CNS): Partial results of two important official surveys were released recently. They point to dismal living standards of India rsquo;s rural population and rising cost of health and education beyond...

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Long Walk To Justice: Transgender Voices From Across India

I had been there at the 1st National Hijra Habba in 2012. Witnessing the Third National Transgender Hijra Habba in 2015 was indeed a humbling experience as lot of water has flown during these 3 years....

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A World Peace Advocate Urges the IBP for the Future of Justice in the...

Manila, Philippines- Philippine lawyers have a freshly sworn in the Integrated Bar of the Philippines (IBP). The former Executive Vice President Rosario T. Setias-Reyes was appointed as the National...

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Assam: Challenging Separatist Militants With Tri-Colour

Contrary to some Kashmir based unruly Indians rsquo; waving of Pakistani (also ISIS) flags on the Srinagar streets few days back, hundred patriotic citizens of Assam on 19 July 2015 joined in a march...

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Yemen: The International Red Cross And Red Crescent Movement Condemns The...

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Dozens Still Missing In China Blasts

Ninety-five people, 85 of them firefighters, are still missing four days after multiple blasts in the north-eastern port of Tianjin, Chinese authorities have said. At least 112 people died in the...

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