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Environment

Nearly 20 Million People Were Displaced Last Year Because Of Extreme Weather

Extreme natural disasters like floods, storms and earthquakes displaced nearly 20 million people in 2014, a new report by the Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC) has found. Sin...

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Health

Immunisation Coverage Crosses 70 Per Cent Mark

Improvement represents significant gain in child survival
The child immunisation coverage in the country has reportedly gone up from 65 per cent to 70 per cent this ye...

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Sustainable Development

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

Significant Mother

How Maharashtra laboured for 12 years to bring down the state’s maternal mortality rate by 54% and what it’s doing to become the country’s primary pre and...

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Gender

Move Over, Alexander Hamilton: A Woman Is Going On The $10 Bill

A woman will be featured on the new version of the $10 bill, the Treasury Department is set to formally announce on Thursday. “America’s currency is a way for o...

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Health

Govt To Probe All Maternal Deaths

BHUBANESWAR: The state government will probe every single maternal death, health secretary Arti Ahuja said here on Thursday. The health secretary, who heads the state-level...

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Sustainable Development

Companies Worth Trillions Tell RSPO To Improve Standards

Institutional investors managing trillions of dollars, along with some of the world’s largest consumer goods companies, have called on the Roundtable on Sustainable P...

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Environment

Climate change: Six energy companies write to United Nations for carbon pricing scheme

Six major energy companies have written to the United Nations asking for help in setting up a carbon pricing scheme to help tackle climate change.BP, Royal Dutch Shell, Tot...

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Bollywood

Manisha Koirala Partners With UNFPA To Help Quake-Affected Women

Manisha Koirala has partnered with the United Nations Fund for Population Activities (UNFPA) and Government of Nepal to help quake affected women of Nepal. Noted Bollywood ...

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