Job: Senior Associate at Unitus Equity Fund

The job, located in Bangalore, will consist of being part of a team that makes “equity investments in entrepreneurially driven microfinance institutions and related businesses that aim to create opportunities for the poor and unserved. The successful candidate must have significant transaction experience gained in a venture capital or private equity fund or in a [...]

Evening Edition

India-Africa relations: India and Africa continue to take steps to improve cooperation over shared desires to have a seat on the UN Security Council.
Health Technology: The first artificial heart transplant in all of Asia was conducted in Bangalore.
Voting Technology: Bangalore’s state voting machines will now have the ability to vote using Braille for blind voters.
Quotas: [...]

Various Trainings/Workshops - CSR, Participatory Learning, and Livelihoods Promotion

We thought you might find the following trainings/workshops of particular interest. If you happen to attend any of these events, please let us know how useful you found them to be:
1. Workshop on Understanding Corporate Social Responsibility, 24-25 April, Chennai
The programme will help participants to increase their awareness of the CSR and [...]

Reducing traffic congestion in Bangalore through Carpooling: Commonfloor.com

Everyone complains about the traffic in Bangalore these days. For that matter, its a chronic problem in every big Indian city. Most of us sit around and complain, and blame the city administration for inadequate planning, not enough roads, poor traffic regulation blah blah.
The folks at maxHeap technologies, co-founded by Lalit Mangal and Sumit Jain [...]

Bangalore is HP’s laboratory for data center cooling

Neerja Raman writes that Hewlett Packard’s new data cooling technology has found it home, not in Silicon Vally or the offices of Google in Mountain View, but rather in the heart of India 2.0 Bangalore.
Because in Bangalore, just like in other big cities in India, with its poor infrastructure and intermittent power supply, you get [...]

HealthCareMagic plans to be new portal for Indians

Startup Dunia writes that the website HealthcareMagic has been launched with the aim of becoming the primary portal for Indians’ healthcare needs. Utilizing the internet to make access more widely available, the website plans to offer the following features.

Chat live with a doctor for free using the portal (between 9 AM - 9 PM IST)
Rate, [...]

CFLs to replace incandescent bulbs in pilot project

From the Hindu:
BANGALORE: The Bangalore Electricity Supply Company (BESCOM) is in the process of launching an ambitious energy conservation project for the replacement of incandescent bulbs in households with highly energy-efficient Compact Fluorescent Lamps (CFLs).
The pilot project, which will be taken up in Bangalore Rural district, envisages the replacement of a maximum of four incandescent [...]