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Govt clears cloud over NGO tax breaks
The Income Tax department has got the power to cancel any charitable organisation’s registration that accords it the benefit of tax exemption. The department can annul the registration and the exemption emanating from it if the organisation is found...
NGO network to help implement Forest Rights Act
To make tribals aware of their rights and to encourage them to fight for their cause, a network of 43 NGOs, under the aegis of Adivasi Mahasabha, will work towards the complete implementation of Forest Rights Act, 2006. Social activists of the network...
NGO sends birds’ nests to top CEOs in the city
Bird Nest An NGO named Trees For Free sent abandoned birds’ nests to CEOs of companies to make them realise the adverse impact their actions were having on the environment. “The purpose of the exercise was to make people involved in infrastructure...
Pfizer, Indian NGO tie up on public health
Pfizer Logo US pharmaceutical company Pfizer and an Indian NGO Monday tied up to work together in the areas of public health, medical research and education with the goal of providing a better health system in India. Pfizer Inc, which is one the largest...
Muslim NGO adopts a ‘dark’ village in Delhi
In the last 62 years the Badarpur Khadar village in North-East Delhi could not see electricity. Nor road, drinking water and school. With the Delhi-based Muslim NGO Human Welfare Foundation deciding to adopt it, the village can now hope for some light. A...
Platinum II contains radioactive substance, claims NGO
A day after Platinum II reportedly got a clean chit from the Central Inspection Committee the marooned vessel is now set to get mired in another controversy. The Indian Platform for Ship Breaking (IPSB), an environmental NGO, has now begun procedures...
Doctors, NGO to provide family planning among urban poor
With nearly 21 percent of pregnancies in India unintended, a federation of gynaecologists and an NGO have come together to increase awareness on family planning and safe abortion among the urban poor in three states, including Delhi. Population Services...
Govt gives NGOs rural job plan reins
CAPART Logo The government will hand over the running of the rural job scheme to a nation-wide network of NGOs, sidelining the panchayats and gram sabhas that managed the programme till now. The official explanation is the “failure of the local-level...
Action against Naxals should be consistent with human rights: Human Rights Watch
image courtesy womenofcaliber.files.wordpress.com With the government deciding to launch an all-out offensive against Naxalites next month, an international human rights body today said that the “means” to be used by security forces in the...
