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Gender

Entrepreneurship Helps Delay Child Marriage In India, Empower Young Women

Impoverished girls in India who are at high risk of child marriage are gaining independence and generating income with the help of a Seattle-based non-profit. Landesa Rural...

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Health

Rural Development Ministry, NACO Sign Pact To Aid HIV-Affected People

NEW DELHI: In a bid to reach out to people affected by HIV/AIDS and those vulnerable to it, the Rural Development Ministry today inked a pact with NACO for mainstreaming th...

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NETWORK18 PRESENTS THE INDIA – CHINA DIALOGUES

New Delhi, 15th May 2015: In the lead up to PM Modi’s visit to China, Network 18 hosted ‘The India – Chi...

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Health

Nagaland CM stresses for Agriculture varsity in state

Nagaland Chief Minister T R Zeliang has stressed the need of a Central Agriculture University in Nagaland to enhance productivity in agricultural and horticultural crops fo...

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Sustainable Development

Economists fear changes to NREGA but fund squeeze is already curtailing its operations

State governments are beginning to feel the pinch of the Ministry of Rural Development's cap on spending on the employment guarantee scheme. In its bid to streamline the Ma...

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Sustainable Development

Ethanol-run green bus set for trial runs in Nagpur

Nagpur received India’s first ethanol-run city passenger transport bus, which has been manufactured by Scania, the Sweden-based commercial vehicle and engine maker, f...

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Sustainable Development

Rural Development Schemes Up For Overhaul

Ministry of panchayati raj plans to develop model panchayats in different states through integrated development President Pranab Mukherjee’s address to parliamentaria...

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Sustainable Development

Marketers look beyond traditional mix as rural consumers flex muscles

With the Modi Government at the Centre, there is a buoyancy seen in the market. The expectation of ‘achche din’ extends beyond urban areas, with the rural hinte...

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Environment

Climate change's potential impact must figure in food production efforts

Countries need to shift to more sustainable food systems, stepping up action to mitigate and adapt to the effects of climate change, FAO Director-General Jos? Graziano da S...

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Bollywood

Big B, Shilpa Shetty pitch in to change million lives in rural India

With great power comes great responsibility, and B’town’s young and famous lived up to these expectations at entrepreneur and philanthropist Ronnie and Zarina S...

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