Actor Rajshri Deshpande reaches out to the needy via a crowdfunding platform  Times of India

Players and everyone else need to live with this virus: Gambhir  Hindustan TimesCricketers will have to live with dangers of COVID-19: Gautam Gambhir  Times of IndiaPlayers will need to live with this virus in foreseeable future: Ga...

In an Istanbul neighbourhood of 200,000 people, an OM worker, prompted by God, asks a question to the only person who knows the answer.

OM Philippines send staff to assess the earthquake damages in Surigao City and provide needed disaster relief training.

A group who started a funeral cooperative but registered it as a church learns what it means to be a real church.

Meet one woman who serves God as the only community health worker for over 2,000 people in six remote villages of Zambia.

English Language Community Outreach students from OM Lifehope lend a hand to volunteers at the Black Country Food Bank near Birmingham, UK.

A woman confesses a need for her heart to be healed following a terrible experience.

Erin Brown and William McCarter were Penn State’s 2020 nominees for the Truman Scholarship, which rewards students for commitments to public service.

Assessment for reading interventions in response-to-intervention models may be too narrow to identify students struggling in different aspects of reading.

Response to Intervention (RTI) has been proven to work with students. Why don't we use it with teachers?

Since 1 June 2011, OM Belgium has been without a bookkeeper. Since 1991, Andrew Bridges (UK) has served the OM Belgium as bookkeeper, but due to his son's education and Andrew's poor health, they have decided to return home.

Royal Enfield Interceptor INT 650 Road Test Review: We'd already admitted that the new 650cc parallel twin is superb, but how good is the Interceptor 650 with long-distance touring and fuel efficiency? We found out.

There is a new retro cruiser in town and this one has landed straight from Italy. The Benelli Imperiale 400 directly eyes the Classic 350 from Royal Enfield that has been enjoying its monopoly in India for a long time now. So, is the Imperiale 400 good enough to change that?

The department of telecommunications (DoT) is understood to have turned down the offer of Vodafone Idea to furnish a corporate guarantee instead of a bank guarantee to cover its deferred spectrum installment for the current fiscal.

A proxy advisory firm has raised objections to the corporate governance structure at Zee Learn, part of the Essel group, expressing concerns over the company’s capital allocation decision, related-party transactions and acquisition of MT Educare.

OTT platforms see a surge in consumption and subscriber count, as viewers seek fresh content.

Now, any developer could create an app and run it on Amazon, Microsoft or Google’s servers and make millions or billions in the process.

The Cellular Operators Association of India had said that the operators had incurred a cost of Rs 600 crore by such extension.

On a similar note, India is trying hard to develop indigenous capacity (Make in India) for machineries and equipment required for, say, new steel capacity augmentation. Otherwise, the large scale of imports of capital goods in the form of machines and equipment for steel plants would have to continue by spending huge foreign exchange and make India import dependent.

The production is based on orders received from the customers and hence management is confident that sales despatches would pick up over the next 2-3 quarters, driving an uptick in sales and normalised inventories.

When the game returns, the struggling cricket boards will be dependent on three superpowers—India, England, Australia—for bailouts

Parliamentary panel’s recommendations aren’t bold enough, and in some areas, they are even regressive.

To bounce back from the pandemic quickly, India needs a stimulus package of at least 5% of GDP that focuses on broad-based development in laggard eastern states.

The president has claimed that he was being sarcastic when he talked about injecting disinfectant and exposure to high-dose UV rays as ways to fight Covid-19.

Before tertiary infections take root, it could perhaps be a good to plan to decongest the slums by arranging travel of migrants to their home in orderly manner without losing time

It must include those quarantined as well instead of just the infected; wider testing critical if the app has to work.

Today, when the US, China, UK, France, etc, which spend much more on healthcare than other nations are facing a crisis, one can very well understand how bad the situation could have been if the outbreak was in the third world, where a majority of global poor live with very little or no access to public health care. The situation would have been much worse.

The world must use this opportunity to fund global public goods and rebuild global systems to fight the right battles.

The need is for a temporary unemployment benefit scheme for up to 100 days a year similar to the MNREGS so that urban workers do not suffer during short periods of unemployment.

In India, which is the biggest democracy in the world with over 1.3 billion people, the question of public health has never been debated in public.

Containment zones must be marked ‘red’, not the entire district; also, will activity be curtailed if areas turn ‘red’?

According to an Indian Express report, on May 3, the Gautam Budh Nagar Police issued an order that all residents of Noida or Greater Noida, and anyone entering the city will need to download the Aarogya Setu app.

Poor data quality and integration can cause a marketing mess.

The Centre on Wednesday gave clear indications that the ongoing nationwide lockdown will be extended beyond May 3 but with "considerable relaxations" to people and services in "many districts". 

As per the current goods and services tax (GST) audit guidelines, taxpayers have been broadly categorised into three groups based on their annual turnover -- large, medium and small.

The WTO work programme defines electronic commerce as the production, distribution, marketing, sale or delivery of goods and services by electronic means.

Mothers play a critical role in ensuring the health, nutrition, and overall well being of the entire family.

India’s Ministry of External Affairs in a cryptic statement after the meeting between two sides reiterated that the US recognised “India's constructive contribution to economic development, reconstruction and humanitarian assistance to Afghanistan”.

Delhi University news: The North Eastern Students House for Women has a capacity of around 100. However, 13 students are currently staying because they are unable to leave due to lockdown.

The UN climate conference in Lima set the stage for Paris in 2015. Next year’s accord is to provide a working, albeit not a final, answer to the question: Is it possible to keep global warming at or below the 2 degree Celsius limit? This limit is considered the boundary beyond which the negative climatic, economic and social consequences of climate change are thought to become intolerably severe and potentially irreversible.

A $2 trillion push in the U.S. to blend renewable energy into the power supply and fortify transmission lines against extreme weather means that Americans must act more like Europeans to keep their power costs down.

Europe’s utilities are re-evaluating their business models due to the energy transition. Members of POWER-GEN Europe’s Advisory Board consider how a reliance on fossil fuels is no longer politically desirable, forcing utilities to transform their portfolios to adapt to radical change.

The United Kingdom is known for its pioneering work in wave, tidal and ocean current energy. The U.S. and Canada have vast marine resources and would benefit from partnerships with UK companies in a number of ways, including building expertise, sharing lessons learned and fostering industry growth.

The European Union needs an ambitious emissions-reduction goal, targets for energy- efficiency and renewables as well as tools to foster investment under its planned 2030 policies, an advisory panel to 14 ministers said.

A $2 trillion push in the U.S. to blend renewable energy into the power supply and fortify transmission lines against extreme weather means that Americans must act more like Europeans to keep their power costs down.

In an important decision for landlords, Scottish & Newcastle plc v Raguz, the House of Lords has restored common sense and commercial reality to the procedures that a landlord has to follow before it can recover arrears of rent from a former t...

In 2015, the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) estimated that foreign direct investment for the construction of greenfield projects in developing economies had jumped from US$22 billion in 2013, to US$42 billion in 2014 wit...

Perhaps less well-known is the electronic waste that’s becoming a serious problem in parts of the country.

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