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30% Spike In India’s Tiger Population Sets A Benchmark For Global Wildlife Conservation

If we’re to take Banks’ quotation as gospel, news of a 30% spike in India’s tiger population as per the 3rd scientific census in the country is fantastic ...

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Sustainable Development

Focus on sewerage system won’t clean up cities and rivers, says expert

Experts attending the third Faecal Sludge Management Conference (FSM3) in Hanoi, Vietnam, said managing sewerage is still a low priority in cities around the world, especia...

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Environment

2015 is a crucial year in fight against poverty

The Action/2015 campaign (This year is key to poverty and climate goals, stars warn world leaders, 15 January) is a welcome initiative that underlines the importance of 201...

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Health

Pulse Polio drive on January 18

The Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC) is making arrangements to cover more than 5.83 lakh children in the city as part of Intensive Pulse Polio Immunisation Pr...

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Health

Software to review maternal deaths to be launched in 4 dists

The Union Ministry of Health and Family Welfare will implement maternal death review (MDR) software as a pilot project in Srinagar, Kulgam, and Jammu, Ramban districts. The...

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Environment

Climate change, extinctions signal Earth in danger zone - study

Climate change and high rates of extinctions of animals and plants are pushing the Earth into a danger zone for humanity, a scientific report card about mankind's impact on...

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Environment

Five ways to achieve climate justice Helena Kennedy

We are learning to see climate injustice. We see it in the distressing stories of lives destroyed, epic droughts, floods and typhoons, and families and whole peoples uproot...

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Sustainable Development

SunEdison & Adani to Build Solar Plant in Gujarat, India - Analyst Blog

Solar technology company SunEdison Inc. has reportedly entered into a strategic alliance with Indian conglomerate Adani Enterprises, which will expand its base in India. Un...

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Environment

2014 Lima Climate Change Talks Had Little For India As Risks Rise

The recently concluded UN climate change conference in the Peruvian capital Lima eventually ended up mimicking its previous versions in style and content with little to ach...

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Sustainable Development

India’s bride markets grow, while trafficking convictions decline

The shortage of brides in some states with skewed sex ratio has made human trafficking a lucrative trade The Indian predilection for aborting or killing the female child ap...

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