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First Nations Development Institute Awards $400K To 12 Native Food-System Projects

First Nations Development Institute announced June 3 that it is divying up $400,000 in grant awards to 12 Native organizations. The grants, made possible by the W.K. Kellog...

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Sustainable Development

Bihar Fast-Tracks Nuclear Power Plant

Project back on track after state water resources department assures water availability from Phulwaria dam reservoir The proposal to set up the first power plant in eastern...

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Sustainable Development

Indian Railways To Chart A New Route To Reduce GHG Emissions

Focus on low-carbon inter-urban passenger and freight transport, and tools like NAMAs for technology transfer and financing Indian Railways is in process of evolving a road...

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Sustainable Development

Contours Of Inequality

Global estimates of the unmet energy needs in India have been available for some time. These only indicate whether the shoe pinches, if at all. In a new series of analyses ...

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Bollywood

Bollywood Evening To Raise Funds For Charity

A BOLLYWOOD evening will be held in Downton this weekend to raise funds for three charities. The event has been organized by local firm Pure Punjabi and will include a thre...

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Health

Treating tobacco-related diseases cost India Rs 16,800 crore in 2011

Spending on treating such diseases is just a little less than revenue from tobacco products; Union health minister, Harsh Vardhan, says he would press for increase in tax o...

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Health

Are you travelling polio free? Show your certificate!

The federal government began enforcing the International Health Regulations (IHR) recommended by the World Health Organisation (WHO) for all outbound travellers from Pakist...

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Environment

Can India Reform Its Agriculture?

Climate change is stressing an already struggling farm sector, but there is a way forward. Over the last decade, India?s official position in global climate negotiations ha...

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Sustainable Development

Will economic empathy shared by Narendra Modi and Shinzo Abe enable Japan to play key role in India's growth?

Suzuki Motor Corporation’s investment in the 1980s was a transformational development in India’s economic history. It revolutionized the automobile sector, brin...

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Hollywood

Roger Moore Asks The Queen To Help Stop Wild Animal Circuses

Actors Sir Roger Moore KBE, best known as James Bond, and Imelda Staunton OBE, who stars in new Disney film Maleficent, have joined Animal Defenders International’s (...

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