Ngos In Crisis News
The tragedy of public outrage over heinous crimes
If it could work as well for the Dalit girl who was raped twice by the same men as it did for Priyadarshini Mattoo, Jessica Lal and Nitish Katara, it could bring about a far bigger change
5 min read18 Oct 2016Smokers stock up, vendors cash in as cigarette firms halt production
Some retailers have already started asking for a 10-15% premium depending on the level of their stock
2 min read7 Apr 2016Magicbricks acquires analytics portal Properji.com
The acquisition brings on board Priya Maheshwari and Guruprasad Bangle, co-founders of Invact Technologies that operates Properji.com
1 min read17 Mar 2016Government places Catholic charity Caritas on watch list
Caritas is accused of violating India’s foreign funding laws by financing groups that were working ’against the country’
1 min read23 Jun 2015Bridging the govt-NGO divide
The solution to the problem of miscommunication between the government and NGOs lies in setting up an independent facilitator
4 min read16 Jun 2015Narendra Modi govt’s crackdown on NGOs triggers chills on US campuses
India has long been a top destination for many projects that US universities carry out in partnership with NGOs
5 min read15 Jun 2015NGOs, govts and an uneasy past
To counter the opposing voice of NGOs with intolerance and authoritarianism shows a lack of political maturity
4 min read15 Jun 2015When govts and civil society work together
The gaps in the individual abilities of govts and CSOs make them effective partners to drive development
5 min read15 Jun 2015Can NGOs raise enough funds from domestic sources?
For advocacy and rights-based NGOs, getting domestic funds from CSR corpus or government sources is tough
6 min read15 Jun 2015What’s good for companies is good for NGOs too
India’s democracy comes across as immature and underconfident when it restricts NGOs’ activities and calls them unpatriotic when they give voice to the dispossessed
4 min read15 Jun 2015Popular Topics
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