[News Source: Business Standard]

Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) alumni  plan to create a social fund aimed at supporting various projects that will create job opportunities for rural youth and transform India’s Industrial Training Institutes (ITIs).  PanIIT Alumni, which conducted the PanIIT…

We reported here on TC-I couple of months back about India’s first sex-workers bank being set up in Mumbai. A group of sex workers in Mysore have gone a step-further and emerged as successful entrepreneurs. Organized under an organization called Ashodaya…

• There is currently an ideological debate brewing in Bombay regarding the preservation of ancient structures versus urban modernization.  The building in question is the 139-year Crawford Market in Bombay, which is facing the threat of demolition by RNA Corp., a…

From ProPoor:

Over the past twenty-six years AEAI’s operations have spread over 12 states and 3 Union Territories in India in partnership with Civil Society Organizations and through directly implemented projects.

With a staff of approximately 100 people (plus approximately 400 indirectly…

On 11th March, the World Economic Forum announced the 2008 Young Global Leadership honorees. According to the WEF:

This honour is bestowed each year by the World Economic Forum to recognize and acknowledge the top 200-300 young leaders from around the…