Hurun India and EdelGive have jointly released the EdelGive Hurun India Philanthropy List 2021. In this list, Wipro founder-chairman Azim Premji donated Rs 9,713 crore during the financial year 2020-21, which is about Rs 27 crore in a day.
An average 31 children died by suicide every day in India in 2020, according to government data, with experts underlining that the COVID-19 pandemic may have accentuated the psychological trauma faced by children to a great extent.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi launched a month-long "Har Ghar Dastak" campaign for special house-to-house Covid-19 vaccination focussed on those whose second dose is overdue to accelerate the inoculation drive.