Commerce and industry minister Piyush Goyal Commerce and industry minister Piyush Goyal has called upon innovators and startups to develop low-cost and sustainable solutions to help civil society, the corporate sector and govt deal with initiatives that create social impact, such as cleaning up of lakes that he has started in his constituency.“May be one…
Technology will not deepen India’s education divide Technology will not deepen India’s education divide; used well, it could help close it.At the TOI Social Impact Summit, 2026, Pranav Kothari, CEO of Educational Initiatives, broke the myth that edtech is expensive or exclusionary. Technology, he stressed, is not a substitute for teachers, who remain better at…
In a session on tech and AI in scaling change, panelists highlighted ways in which they’d each worked with the technology, and underscored how it could be customised to local contexts.Aniket Doegar, co-founder and CEO, Haqdarshak, spoke about his organisation’s use of tech to help people access govt’s 20,000 schemes, including cash transfers, from which…
M P Ahammed, chairman of the Malabar Group of Companies Speaking at the inaugural session of the TOI Social Impact Summit, M P Ahammed, chairman of the Malabar Group of Companies, said his business practices, with 450 showrooms in 24 countries, are aligned with Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s ‘Make In India, Market to the World’…
PM Modi Saturday lashed out at critics questioning positive developments in the country NEW DELHI: PM Modi Saturday lashed out at critics questioning positive developments in the country, including the robust growth in GDP, on his govt’s watch as congenital pessimists and fault-finders, asserting the “power of truth” will eventually overwhelm the “campaign of lies”.With…
Gold, the second biggest import item for India in terms of value, is increasingly playing an important role in the circular economy that can meet part of the demand for the yellow metal from internal sources and save precious foreign exchange reserves. To integrate gold into the circular economy, every stakeholder is stepping up to…
India is moving away from a focus on only disaster response and relief towards disaster mitigation and resilience India is moving away from a focus on only disaster response and relief towards disaster mitigation and resilience, said Sudarshan Suchi, chief development officer at Reliance Foundation, at a timely discussion on ‘Rebooting Development for Disaster Resilience’.The…
Sanjiv Puri has said sustainability and inclusive growth must be an integral part of the corporate sector’s business model ITC chairman and managing director Sanjiv Puri has said sustainability and inclusive growth must be an integral part of the corporate sector’s business model, a model his conglomerate has followed.“Economic progress cannot be seen in isolation…
21-year-old BSc student has been a solitary warrior against civic mess and pollution in his hometown BHOPAL: His online followers know him as ‘Bittu Tabahi’. In reality, Surendra Singh Choudhary is the exact opposite of what the moniker ‘Tabahi’, meaning destruction, implies.For the past seven months, this 21-year-old BSc student has been a solitary warrior…
CBI has filed an FIR against Essel Group Chairman Subhash Chandra NEW DELHI: CBI has filed an FIR against Essel Group Chairman Subhash Chandra and some other individuals for allegedly defrauding LICHFL (LIC Housing Finance Ltd) of Rs 1,322 crore between 2018 and 2026. LICHFL alleged that Chandra had submitted a ‘net worth certificate’ of…