The ‘Happiness Utsav’ is a 15-day festival which will celebrate the anniversary of India’s first ‘happiness curriculum’ launched by Delhi government in more than 1000 schools on July 2 last year.
Read MoreThe Gandhi Mandela Peace Initiative launch event to commemorate the 150th birth-anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi and 100th birth-anniversary of Nelson Mandela was a star spangled affair at the Imperial Hotel in New Delhi.
Read MoreAlthough the malnutrition rate declined in previous decades yet since 2015 it’s witnessing an unusual increase which possesses a serious threat to the UN's Sustainable Development Goals.
Read MoreContinuing with its digital literacy initiative aimed at empowering women in rural India, Google India and Tata Trusts today announced reaching a milestone of two lakh and sixty thousand villages with its Internet Saathi program. The program has contributed towards bridging the digital gender divide in rural India [female to male ratio from 1 in 10 in 2015 to 4 in 10 in 2018*], and now expands to cover two new states -- Punjab & Odisha.
Read MoreAccording to the United Nations, India is set to overtake China and become the most populous country by 2027. This highlights the urgent need for addressing this alarming situation.
Read MoreWhy did the #metoo movement cause such a ripple? It has seen and continues to see women indiscriminately across professions, age, religion speak out. Thanks to the help of digital media and social media, the movement caused awareness to spread quickly and encouraged people to be aware and realize that a change was needed. Social media offered a safe space for women to express themselves and to call out the perpetrators involved.
Read MoreThe Preamble to the Constitution of UNESCO declares that ‘since wars begin in the minds of men, it is in the minds of men that the defences of peace must be constructed’. The world has already seen the worst bloodshed in the last century in the form of two world wars which perished a million lives.
Read MoreThe population is one of the most alarming subjects and topics of discussion in present times as the numbers of humans on Earth are rigorously increasing at an alarming rate. According to the recent United Nations estimates the current world population is 7.7 billion as of July 2019. Anti-Natalism is a concept or a philosophical position that argues people to abstain from procreation and assigns a negative value to birth.
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