From Avashya The Indian arm of the world’s largest soft drinks company Coca-Cola India is all set to come up with an India specific arm for its corporate social responsibility (CSR) activities this year, starting with a corpus of $10 million.

In an effort to address rising pollution levels, traffic congestion and overall convenience, Indimoto.com is a carpooling matching site that allows for commuters to find other people in their area to share rides with. With the recent unveiling of the Tata Nano, this website may become a necessary evil stemming from insane traffic congestion. Avashya [...]

Here is a very interesting idea in increasing the survival rates of newborn babies suffering from critical illnesses. Leveraging studies that show the positive benefits of breast milk in helping infants and neonates fight diseases, this concept relies on the creation of a milk depository in a similar fashion as a blood bank. The idea [...]

from MicroCapital.org by Mary Fu Engineers for Social Impact (E4SI), a new fellowship program in India, has begun its recruitment process to match the top five undergraduate candidates from Indian engineering schools with five partner social enterprises that are focusing on development by means of sustainable for-profit entrepreneurship. (more…)

There are no limits to human ingenuity as evidenced by an article today in OneWorld South Asia that speaks about an inventor that has discovered a method to weave silk without harming the delicate worms responsible for the fabric’s construction. According to the article, a single sari used to require the death of 50,000 worms! [...]

Regardless of one’s opinion on nuclear power itself, one aspect that most people should be capable to agree upon is the notion that in order for its positive benefits to reach into the rural areas and bring energy to untapped regions of India, the private sector must be allowed to participate in its development.However, it [...]

The Economist had an article today on the challenges that emerging economies face with making initial adoptions of new technologies widespread. While it is easy to overly simplify the phenomenon that is technology transfer to the developing world by glossing over mobile phone stats or internet users, the harsh reality is that much of these [...]

From Avashya The Indian arm of the world’s largest soft drinks company Coca-Cola India is all set to come up with an India specific arm for its corporate social responsibility (CSR) activities this year, starting with a corpus of $10 million.

In an effort to address rising pollution levels, traffic congestion and overall convenience, Indimoto.com is a carpooling matching site that allows for commuters to find other people in their area to share rides with. With the recent unveiling of the Tata Nano, this website may become a necessary evil stemming from insane traffic congestion. Avashya [...]