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Environment

Parties Discuss Aspects Of Global Stocktake At Bonn Climate Talks

On Tuesday, the Ad-hoc Working Group on Paris Agreement (APA) asked parties to discuss three issues related to global stocktake—inputs needed for conducting the stock...

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Health

Three Births

Dawlen Tirkey, a nurse in one of India’s poorest and least developed states, had decided that she and her husband could afford to have just one child.
Their son,...

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Human Rights

500 Women Who Are Manual Scavengers Soon To Become Cabbies

The project has been taken up by the Ministry of Social Justice & Empowerment as a part of the National Safai Karamcharis Finance & Development Corporation’s (NSKFDC) wor...

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Festivals

Panama Film Festival Revs Up Primera Mirada

One of the core goals of IFF Panama when it was founded in 2012 was to provide a new window and international launch-pad for films from Panama and the rest of Cen...

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Health

Communicable Diseases Rise 32 Perccent In 5 Years, Spending Up 7 Percent

Spending on programmes to control India’s three main communicable diseases — malaria, tuberculosis and leprosy A — increased seven percent over five years...

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Gender

Punjab Financial Inclusion Of Women In Five Charts

One billion women – more than 40% of the women around the world – don’t have access to formal financial services, according to Global Findex.
The gen...

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Bollywood

Freida Pinto Turns Producer For Women Empowerment Shows And Films

Freida Pinto is a renowned social activist who essentially works towards the development of women and the actress has taken yet another step in this direction. Freida along...

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India Gears Up For Mobile Money For Everyone Through UPI

In the next two years, a bank can lend a vegetable vendor of a few hundred rupees which she will be able to repay at the end of the day. All this will be done via mobile in...

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9 Economists Whose Ideas Are Changing The World

We’re living in the age of the rock star academic. Everyone is trying to make sense of financial crises and the old economics textbooks don’t work so well anymo...

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Boosting Coherence To Make Poverty Eradication A Reality

I recently launched the 2015 edition of the European Commission’s report on Policy Coherence for Development — or PCD — that show...

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