The ‘Me Too’ movement (or #MeToo movement) is a movement against sexual harassment, which has lately gathered momentum in India. Tarana Burke, an American social activist, began using the phrase in 2006. American actress Alyssa Milano later popularised the phrase in 2017 on Twitter. #MeToo becam...
Sahaj e-Village Limited, a Srei initiative company, has partnered with Oxxy, India’s largest healthcare network to offer a host of discounted medical services including tests, treatments, and surgeries. The initiative is targeted towards India’s rural populace. The new service called OxxyNetwork...
“I believe in Red Cross because blood across the world is red, and the only religion should be humanism” – Mrinal Kanti DasThe International Red Cross is mainly an international humanitarian movement with around 17 million members, volunteers, and staff from the world. The Red Cross Soci...
Shree Vishudhanand Saraswati Marwari Hospital recently inaugurated a high dependency unit. It was created with the intention of allocating patients in post-intensive therapy period. The facility has been funded by the Bajoria family in memory of Late Ramji Dasji Bajoria who had a huge role in buildi...
The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) has been working for child development in India since 1949. Dr. Yasmin Ali Haque, who had visited West Bengal recently after joining as the UNICEF Representative in India, has said the state is doing well on child development projects. This is a special ...
The illegal trafficking of drugs is part of the global black market, which deals with the cultivation, manufacture, distribution and sale of drugs that are prohibited by law. In the global scenario, there have been cases of death penalty to combat drug smugglers. Dilip Kumar Srivastava, Zonal Direct...
SREI foundation organised a seminar on Prevention of Crimes: Awareness, Rebuilding of lives, Rehabilitation on July 13, 2018 at Vivekananda Hall, Ballygunje in the presence of H.P. Kanoria, Chairman, SREI Foundation. Shitaram Sharma, honorary consul of Republic of Belarus, Chairman, WEBFUNA, and Pra...
Fighting through the darkness‘Socially confined’ can be the right word for the residents of the red light areas (RLAs). A woman of an RLA is confined within her ‘profession’ by her trafficker / pimp / landlady through a mechanism of intimidation and violence. The children of RLAs carry marks...
Ashoke Mitra was a rare breed among the Bengali intellectuals. Even weeks ago before he died on May 1 at the age of 90, he was writing articles for his magazine which he established in his late years.He was born in Dhaka, capital of present-day Bangladesh. In his early life he picked up ...
The world is in turmoil with the leakage of 50 million personal data from the social media giant, Facebook, through a London- based political strategist company, Cambridge Analytica. It is said the data was used to influence the American citizens to vote for the current President Donald Trump. In In...
