Category: General Interest
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Do Better with Less: Frugal Innovation to Sustainable Growth
The Synergia Foundation hosted a Harvard Business School Club of India conversation with Prof. Jaideep Prabhu and Navi Radjou on April 16, 2019. Also in attendance were Sajju Jain – Founder of Impact+Efficacy; Harsha Mutt – Mentor at NSRCEL at IIM Bangalore; Bhanu Prasad – Impact Innovation Coach at TCS Foundation; Ajay Nanavati – Chairman…
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Violence returns to Sri Lanka
Sri Lanka’s government has blamed local jihadist group National Thowheed Jamath for one of Asia’s deadliest terrorist attacks in years and said other nations had shared intelligence ahead of the blasts. However, did the Sri Lankan government ignore intelligence reports about an impending attack? On 21 April 2019, Easter…
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Measles incidence increases worldwide
Measles cases increases by 300% worldwide, spurred on by anti-vaccination campaigns, supply chain issues and conflict. A vaccine is a biological concoction that provides acquired immunity to a particular disease. It does this by containing an agent that resembles …..
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Deeper EU-China cooperation in the near future?
Given pre-summit tensions, the release of a statement and commitment to a timetable for developing a monitoring mechanism is an achievement. Concessions made by Chinese Premier Li Keqiang are evidence of Beijing’s desire to keep EU on its side ahead of G20 summit in…
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US award grants to anti-abortion clinics
President Donald Trump’s administration announced that it would award family planning grant to a chain of crisis centres that oppose abortion and don’t offer contraceptives. Abortion is the termination of a human pregnancy accompanied by the death of the embryo or fetus. The anti-abortion….
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Drug prices balloon in the US
Some drug prices have increased significantly in the first three months of 2019. The rise comes amidst intense attention on the American pharmaceutical industry. The pharmaceutical industry as we understand it today has its origins in the second half of the 19th century. The outcomes of the Scientific and Industrial Revolution were fused to benefit…
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Turkey out of F-35 program?
The United States has suspended Turkey’s participation in the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter jet program until Ankara cancels its planned purchase of a sophisticated Russian air defence system, the Pentagon said. The Lockheed Martin F-35 Lightning II is a family of single-seat, single-engine, all-weather stealth…
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Trump veto stands
The U.S. House of Representatives on Tuesday failed to override President Donald Trump’s first veto, leaving in place the “national emergency” he declared last month to build a U.S.-Mexico border wall that Congress has not funded. The Mexico–United States barrier, sometimes colloquially called the Border Wall, is a series of…
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Wayfinding in Times of Change
The Synergia Foundation in collaboration with the Government of Karnataka (GoK) organised a roundtable discussion on “Wayfinding in Times of Change” by Kenneth Mikkelsen on March 13, 2019. The event was chaired by the Chief Secretary, GoK at the Vidhana Soudha. The attendees of the forum…
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Economists criticize data misuse
Top economists and social scientists studying India have published an open letter expressing alarm at the politicisation of economic data by Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government, highlighting the growing debate over the credibility of India’s official growth estimates. The 2019 Indian general election..