Priorities

Earth Hour: What Is It And Why Is It So Important?

On Saturday night, cities across the world will go dark as the globe comes together in the fight against climate change.The voluntary power cut marks Earth Hour, a grassroots ...

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Activists Call On World Leaders To Make Gender Equality Pledge A Reality

World leaders must back up their pledge to end gender inequality with concrete commitments on how they plan to empower women, said activists preparing for the UN Commission on...

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Contraception And Family Planning Around The World – Interactive.

A record number of women now use contraception. The latest figures from the UN’s Department of Economic and Social Affairs show 64% of married and cohabiting women used ...

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Agri Can Help Contain Biotic Pressure On Forests

Dilip Gode, executive director of Vidarbha Nature Conservation Society (VNCS), has been working in the field of community development for the last 25 years. Supporter of Fores...

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Tomatoes Could Be Turned Into Major Source Of Green Energy

Tomatoes considered so ugly that they are not fit for shop shelves could be turned into a major source of green energy, according to scientists.Researchers working on a ground...

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Paying The Price Of Climate Change In Human Health

Increasing frequency and severity of deadly typhoons in the Pacific, flooding in Chennai, India, the total desiccation of Lake Poopó, the second largest lake in Bolivia...

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How Women Became 'Seen Not Heard' In Fairy Tales

Maybe she had children, and wanted to warn them about the wayward world beyond adolescence.Maybe her mother, or her mother's mother, told her the story, and as a child she del...

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10 Women Who Are Disrupting Global Health And Tech

There’s something about the rising humidity, the pre-dawn birdsong, the flowers we forgot we planted. It’s a disruptive, yet hopeful feeling—which makes it t...

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Harnessing The Data Revolution And Improving Land Management Through Geospatial Technology

Advances in earth observation, computing power, and connectivity have tremendous potential to help governments, and us at the World Bank, support better land management, and u...

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Improving The Quality Of Skills Training: What The Adolescent Girls Initiative Pilots Can Teach Us

The Adolescent Girls Initiative (AGI) through its eight pilots taught us a great deal about how to make skills training more female-friendly and support young women's transiti...

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PURSUIT OF TRUTH: KANWALJIT SINGH UNFINISHED

In a reflective conversation with Vinta Nanda, veteran actor Kanwaljit Singh revisits hi...

June 5 2026

STUDENT CITY PART 7

Prof. Dr. Piyush Roy’s nostalgic campus chronicle revisits the friendships, rivalr...

June 4 2026

PRESENTING LOVE IN AN UNUSUAL ROLE

Monojit Lahiri explores how love, emotion, intimacy, and human connection have evolved f...

June 3 2026