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Prospects For India's Youth: Cloudy, With High Chance Of Thunder And Lightning

The country's demographic dividend is dissipating, with seriously adverse consequences for young India, asserts Shankar Acharya, former Chief Economic Adviser to the Government of India.......

Why this Obama image was nothing but a good photo-op

The US president was probably unaware that the son of a manual labourer had to abandon studies as his school closed down Obama and First Lady Michelle greet children while touring Humayun's tomb......

Why Should Data Not Go Private?

The development of private data sources is a hugely positive development.It should serve as a challenge to the government to improve its own record on producing timely and reliable statistics,......

ar to work on Mumbai health project

A 23-year-old American Fulbright Scholar studying at the Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, USA, has decided to use the grant awarded to him to work for Pratham and Niramaya (Niramaya......

West Coast Pratham fundraisers rake in $1 mn

Fundraising dinner galas by three chapters of Pratham on the West Coast recently raised more than $1 million for the social service agency's education projects for disadvantaged children in India.......

2-fold strategy to end child labour in India

The winning of the Nobel peace prize by Kailash Satyarthi, who has spent a lifetime campaigning against child labour, has refocused attention on this scourge. Image: India must eradicate child......

Barclays partners with Mango to aid NGOs

Barclays Global Retail and Commercial Banksaid on Thursay that it has partnered with Mango, to provide financial management training courses for NGO staff and Board members working in developmental......

Corporates in social sector: NGOs to die?

Wal-Mart is opening schools, Vodafone is helping flood victims, Coke is digging wells and recycling plastic... the list of the good things companies are doing is growing longer by the second. Where......

Gates, Hewlett earmark $9.1 mn for Indian kids

The William and Flora Hewlett and Bill & Melinda Gates Foundations announced a $9.1 million grant for Pratham, a non-profit organisation, recently to help 60 million children in India get added......

Nilekani comes up with a 'Genie'

EkStep to offer android app-based solutions to help children solve learning problemsIt all started on June 15 last year during a small meeting at the house of Nandan Nilekani, who had just returned......

Anupam Kher's new role

Anupam Kher tells us about his new role. And no, it's not a filmi one.Anupam Kher, whose career spans nearly 400 films and over 100 plays, has been appointed the goodwill ambassador of the Pratham......

Cairns bats for underprivileged kids

In 1995, India was introduced to a wild Chris Cairns. The hugely talented, rebellious son of former cricketer Lance Cairns was constantly disdainful of the team management.On the eve of New......

English players head to the 'high' seas

It looked more like a home win for England.There were a group of fans wearing Collingwood t-shirts, a youngster with the Panesar label, people sporting the different English cricket jerseys and......

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