The Artha Venture Challenge, a national competition run by the Artha Platform to find the most ambitious, early stage social entrepreneurs in India launched at the Sankalp Forum on April 17th, 2013. Read more »

Pollinate Energy — a Sydney and Bangalore-based social enterprise NGO dedicated to using renewable resources to eradicate energy poverty in India -– has joined forces with ChipIn, a new Australian website designed to raise funds for Australian non-profits, to launch a new clean energy crowdfunding campaign. Read more »

Rural areas in India can operate as back offices for the country's urban centres, like Bangalore has emerged as a crucial centre for the US, National Innovation Council Chairman Sam Pitroda said on April 3rd 2013. Read more »

The Schwab Foundation for Social Entrepreneurship, a sister organisation of the World Economic Forum and the Jubilant Bhartia Foundation, not-for-profit organisation of the Jubilant Group has invited applications for the ‘Social Entrepreneur of the Year’ India 2013 Award. The deadline for submitting the first round application is May 31, 2013. Read more »

Sattva Media and Consulting Pvt. Ltd. and Niiti Consulting Pvt. Ltd. are collaborating on a research study to find out how social enterprises attract and retain talent. Read more »

Investors have committed at least Rs 400 crore to a government-backed fund that will provide capital to new ventures serving the needs of India's low-income communities. The fund, whose eventual size is envisaged at more than Rs 5,000 crore, is the first such by the government, which is taking increasing interest in venture capital investing. Read more »

In February, at the India Call to Action on Child Survival and Development Summit, India’s Ministry of Health and Family Welfare released a strategic road map to tackle preventable child deaths and introduced a National Child Survival Score Card and a dashboard to track progress on child survival and development. Read more »

A tap that drips once every second wastes a thousand litres of water in a month. Aabid Surti shows us how easy it can be to keep our future green and blue. Read more »

The government’s plan to create a new cadre of trained individuals to provide basic healthcare in villages has received a setback with the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Health rejecting the proposal. Read more »

More than 60,000 households in rural India will have better access to electricity by 2015 as Simpa Networks, a company supported by the Asian Development Bank (ADB), scales up the sales of its off-grid, pay-as-you-go solar energy solutions. Read more »