Pratham – a leading NGO dedicated to child education and Barclay’s have come together to foster wealth creation in villages by grooming entrepreneurship among the rural youth. Pratham would identify poor rural youth with acumen for entrepreneurship and provide the much needed skills in various fields, while Barclay’s would help with the initial investments for [...]

Your daily dose of the headlines How Gandhi would write a blog comment. [If you aspire to be a good commenter - read this post!] Sanjeev Sanyal: Small-town India holds the key [Lets not shun urbanization - but focus more on the small towns] ITC’s Unique *Social* Forestry Project Bags Carbon Credits for Poor [Carbon [...]

You may like or you may hate it. But if you are a resident of India, you can’t ignore the inevitable auto rickshaws. If you ever wonder how it would be to ride auto rickshaws, better still race on it, now  you can test it out at the Rickshaw Challenge‘s Mumbai Xpress. The third edition [...]

I’ll be going away to Gujarat, India this summer to work with ClickDiagnostics, a health & technology start-up that focuses on designing and implementing telehealth mobile solutions, specifically with the aim of enhancing the capabilities of community health workers to deliver cost-effective, high quality health services. In order to develop, pilot, and implement mobile health [...]

Your daily dose of the headlines MICROCAPITAL STORY: Sahara Mutual Fund of India Launches … Sahara Mutual Fund (SMF), an asset management company, has lodged a draft offer document with the Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) to create the. MicroCapital.org – http://www.microcapi… Nadal’s foundation to launch tennis school in India … the focus on social work [...]

The importance of the financial product microinsurance has been written about before on TC-I (here, here, and here). One constiuency that stands to benefit greatly from the idea of low premium safety nets are farmers, whose dependence on crop yield for income makes them very vulnerable to unforseen weather changes. In light of ongoing climate [...]

A few months ago, at the Skoll World Forum on Social Entrepreneurship, Monitor Group Inclusive Markets released a report focusing on market-based solutions to global poverty.   Titled “Emerging Markets, Emerging Models,” the report has a special emphasis on India, although case studies from other countries are also included.  A variety of examples are given, along [...]

Organization: India Khelo is a startup with the goal of improving the sports culture in India. They are currently being incubated at IIT-Madras and are looking for entrepreneurs with a passion for sports. Positions: 1. Business Head: IndiaKhelo needs business heads in various cities to run its operations. 2. Area Managers: To maintain relation with affiliated schools [...]

India to compile database on seasonal flu No details on the number of flu infections and mortality are available for India IRCTC Records Rs. 6 Billion worth of transactions in April 2009 IRCTC recorded Rs. 6 billion in the month of April 2009 (increase of ~15% since Jan 2009) out of which Rs. 4.1 billion [...]

Online portals are increasingly common as a solution to bridging distances, ideas, and people.  InfoDev covers a new portal – TechPedia – which focuses on highlighting technology projects from students in order to link new ideas to industry and grassroots innovators.   Instead of letting a fresh new idea or research go unheard of, the portal [...]