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Meira Kumar, the Speaker of the Lok Sabha, has proposed the development of a University for Artisans. The university would allow artisans...

The 50 year-old Indian handloom textiles and apparel retailer Fab India recently awarded approximately 700 employees with shares in the company. Established...

ReportLinker has recently made available a report on the agriculture and food industry in India in 2011. The report covers the market...

Indian social venture capital firm Aavishkaar Venture Management has recently invested in Insight and Intellect Farms, an Indian horticulture company that promotes...

1,600 children die every day in India due to illnesses caused by lack of sanitation. Dasra’s latest research report, “Squatting Rights”, sponsored...

The deadline for nominations to the Sankalp Awards 2013 for socially relevant, sustainable and scalable enterprises has been extended until 31st January...

The Medtronic Foundation is to invest $6 million of venture philanthropy to accelerate quality care and management of diabetes and heart disease...

Unconvention, the conference series run by Vilgro, recently conceived of and launched Unconvention | L as a way to run smaller convenings...

Accion, the international organisation focused on financial services for the underserved and Saama Capital, an India investment firm, last week announced a...

Shashi Tharoor, whose portfolio as minister of state includes higher education, called for foreign universities to locate in India to improve overall...

Co-founder of Patni Computer System, Gajendra Patni's sons Amit and Arihant, have a new interest. They are flexing their philanthropic muscle with...

Justrojgar is to receive an equity investment from Upaya Social Ventures to build resources and expertise to connect India’s poorest to the...

d.Light, the for profit social enterprise that designs, manufactures and distributes solar lights, announced that it’s products now play their part in...

Last week Intellecap and Villgro today announced a partnership that will assist social entrepreneurs across India. The two organisations will jointly organize...

The Economic Times reports that The Aavishkaar Social Venture Fund recently sold its stake in Rangsutra, an artisan-owned handicrafts company providing handicrafts...

Madhav Chavan, the founder of the education charity Pratham, has won the fourth World Innovation Summit for Education (WISE) prize in the...

UK international development agency, DFID, is restructuring its programme with India so that it enters into no new financial aid programmes, with...

Anshu Gupta, Founder and Director of Goonj, was announced as the winner of the 2012 Schwab Foundation India Social Entrepreneur of the...

The World Economic Forum will hold its first meeting in India in Gurgaon between 6 to 8 November 2012. 0 0 1...

On 20th November in London Dasra will launch their latest report titled Squatters Rights, Access to Toilets in Urban India. The report,...

The feature of the week in the Financial Times, commencing 29th October 2012, is on social enterprise in India. The feature, available here,...

Wharton, the business school at the University of Pennsylvania, recently published a blog post on the state of the computer tablet market...

As the India Office of Bain & Co., the global blue chip management consultancy, reports a significant rise in India of philanthropic...

Impact investors undertook 11 deals totalling USD $45 million in India between July and September 2012. The study, undertaken by the research...

Today, October 22nd, The Daily Star of India reported on the outcome of a workshop organised by itself alongside two other organisations,...

The Schwab Foundation for Social Entrepreneurship and The Jubilant Bhartia Foundation yesterday announced the finalists of the India Social Entrepreneur of the...

The Sankalp Forum-Samridhi Regional summit was held in Ptna on October 16, 2012. This initiative, organized by Intellecap, a social sector advisory...