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Nearly 20 thieves use sledgehammers to rob Pune-based PNG Jewellers outlet in USA; video goes viralIn a startling incident, a gang of 20 thieves employed sledgehammers to carry out a robbery at a jewellery store in Sunnyvale, California, ...
Hakki Pikki Tribe: Bird Hunters who turned to medicine after Project TigerStranded 31 members of the tribe had reached Sudan on a routine business trip to sell Ayurvedic medicines when fighting broke out among mil...
Apple ties up with NGO for water management pilot outside BengaluruThe iPhone maker is supporting the development of an "innovative, scalable approach that strengthens local water management and decision ma...
Yashwant Sinha to visit Gujarat on Congress' invitationThe former Union finance minister would interact with the business community and deliver lectures in Ahmedabad, Rajkot and Surat, a Congres...
Community service must be a part of high school curriculum: Manasi KirloskarThe sole heir to the Toyota Kirloskar empire is a woman of many talents.
Infosys Foundation to boost rural livelihood in Andhra Pradesh, TelanganaInfosys Foundation has signed an MoU with NGO Sahakara Mitra Samstha to enhance livelihood of the farming community in Andhra Pradesh and T...
NGOs will get exclusive domain extension '.ngo' from JanuaryAfter launching the .ngo domain, PIR will offer a "sunrise period" for trademark holders to preregister themselves to prevent cybersquattin...
- Palm oil plantations fuel deforestation and forest rights violations
Palm oil may be the largest source of vegetable oil; it is also the leading cause behind losing precious primary forests in South East Asia.
Responsibility of an unprejudiced workplace weighs hard on management irrespective of genderRecruiters have said that a focus on helping women stuck at mid-level positions graduate to senior positions is more important than quotas ...
CSR will not help society if companies make profits by corrupting political brass: Arun MairaMaira said business responsibility is not just about CSR activities but also about understanding its overall impact on communities as well ...
- Tax compulsions force some NGOs to float for-profit companies; the crossover is paying off
Crossover from charity to profitability is helping NGOs realise that profitability and serving society need not be mutually exclusive.
- SKS Microfinance: Promoters got the better of poor women borrowers
There are issues on how its five SKS MBTs were managed.
- Share Microfin: Poor women bore risk, promoters reaped benefit
The poor women bore the risk during the building phase of the business. But it was the promoters who reaped the rewards from the business t...
- How top 3 Microfinance cos raised funds in the name of poor?
An ET investigation shows 45,000 women who were shareholders in the country’s top three microfinance companies have missed out on the benef...
- Top 3 microfinance companies used poor as puppets
They say their mission is to serve the poor. Yet, promoters of top three microfinance companies used poor women to structure equity in thei...
- 'Charity Research' comes of age as donors look for results
E&Y, KPMG and Copal Partners help international and domestic donors audit NGO credentials, to handle projects and credibility with money an...
- Ericsson launches rural broadband project
India's first high speed packet access powered rural broadband demo network, that delivers the benefit of 3G, was launched as a pilot proje...