Covid – 19

Saurabh Mehta’s Team Won Rs 73 Lakh For Inventing Phone-Based Saliva Test

Leave a Comment / ChangeMaker, Covid - 19, Innovation, Technology / By / September 28, 2020

The importance of conducting quick tests for infectious diseases has come to light like never before with the outbreak of the novel Coronavirus. Building on the same, a research team led by an Indian-American has now come up with a quick and non-invasive way that uses a mobile phone to detect infectious diseases. The Cornell researchers’ team, …

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Podcast | How Have Medicinal Plants Changed Our World?

Leave a Comment / Climate Change, Covid - 19, CSR, Environment, Plant Based / By / September 28, 2020

Tropical plants have driven exploration, started wars, transformed economies. Hear the stories in episode 2 of the new Scrolls & Leaves podcast. Faced with COVID-19, for which there are no specific treatments, people have scrambled to find herbal remedies to protect themselves. Plant-based medicine companies have spotted the opportunity. In June, Baba Ramdev, yoga guru …

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Indian NGO founder who helped migrants in lockdown on Schwab list of social innovators

Leave a Comment / ChangeMaker, Covid - 19 / By / September 25, 2020

Schwab Foundation named 5 Indians in its list of 2020 social innovators award. Among them is Ashif Shaikh, the founder-director of Jan Sahas. New Delhi: Five Indians have been selected by the Schwab Foundation, a sister organisation of the World Economic Forum, for the ‘social innovators 2020’ awards for being among the first responders to the Covid-19 crisis. These five …

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Covid has pushed CSR deeper into corporate consciousness

Leave a Comment / Covid - 19, CSR / By / September 22, 2020

Three policy changes due to the pandemic have had an effect on the quantum and nature of CSR spending The Covid-19 pandemic has been disastrous globally, India not excluded. One would be hard put to point out one positive development due to it. Yet strangely there is one. It has helped push the idea of …

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Biodiversity and pandemics: Does conserving nature matter to corporates?

1 Comment / Climate Change, Covid - 19, CSR, Environment, Information / By / September 17, 2020

While the government’s environmental conservation endeavours are followed closely, the role of industry goes largely unnoticed  Some might opine that conservation of biodiversity — saving the Great Indian Bustard or the carnivorous Drosera plants — is best left to scientists and environmentalists. In the ongoing battle with the novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19), however, experts warned …

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