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Invest 3.5 Percent GDP In Science, Technology, Innovation For Sustainable Development, Experts Say

Investing up to 3.5% of a nation’s GDP in science, technology and innovation – including basic science and education – is a key benchmark for advancing su...

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Sustainable Development

UN Hails Cooperatives As Vehicle To Make Sustainable Development A Reality For All.

“Inequality is a fundamental obstacle to development, depriving people of basic services and opportunities to build better lives for themselves and their children,&rd...

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Health

The UN Fell Short On Helping Women

A critical push for universal progress, launched by the United Nations in 2000, has reached an official close. On Monday, the U.N. released its report on the initiative kno...

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Sustainable Development

The Explosive Growth Of Community Solar Gardens In 2015

For much of the recent rise of solar power, the industry has been divided in two: distributed rooftop solar, and utility-scale solar parks. According to a new report from G...

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Health

MDG Report: India On Track In Reducing Poverty

‘But it still remains home to one quarter of global underfed population’ India has halved its incidence of extreme poverty, from 49.4 per cent in 1994 to 24.7 p...

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Environment

Here?s The Most Lucrative Way To Fight Climate Change

A new report outlines how to grow the economy and stymie climate change at the same time Economists, politicians and scientists have long debated how (and whether) climate ...

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Sustainable Development

Rural India To Dominate Next Set Of Internet Users.

India, with over 300 million internet users, is the second largest mobile market of the world, only after China. But, 300 million out of 1.2 billion population, surely leav...

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Festivals

Delhi Bids Farewell To 6th Jagran Film Festival

Film celebrities Divya Dutta, Piyush Mishra, Gulshan Grover, Saurabh Shukla and Kunal Kapoor and Sriram Raghavan graced the closing da...

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Sustainable Development

India's First Integrated Policy For Skill Development Program

Cabinet has given nod to India’s first National Policy on Skill Development and Entrepreneurship, which aims to streamline 70+ skill development programs currently be...

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Bollywood

Priyanka Chopra Joins UNICEF Campaign Against Anaemia

Bollywood actress Priyanka Chopra joined a UNICEF campaign to raise awareness against the prevalence of anaemia among adolescents in India. The actress, a goodwill ambassad...

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