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NETWORK18 & ORF INITIATIVE – THE INDIA – US DIALOGUES

~Setting the Agenda for a strategic partnership between two great democracies~

New Delhi, January 2015: In the lead up to President Obama&...

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Environment

PM-led climate panel to pick issues for Obama talks

Prime Minister Narendra Modi-led council on climate change, which was reconstituted last year, will hold its first meeting on Monday and brainstorm on fine tuning renewable...

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Environment

Ed Davey voices concerns over likelihood of strong climate change agreement

Energy and climate change secretary Ed Davey has revealed that the UK will be seeking a legally binding climate change agreement at negotiations later this year. However, h...

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Health

Should India make health a fundamental right?

As a symbolic gesture, it is great to make health a justiciable right; but as citizenry, we would be foolish to let the healthcare debate be hijacked by this non-issue, or ...

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Environment

India should take a more proactive role in climate change negotiations: R K Pachauri, IPCC chairman

Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) chairman RK Pachauri laments that policy directives to implement Narendra Modi's "no-effect" guideline are yet to be prepar...

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Sustainable Development

The truly dictatorial ordinance didn’t come from Modi: it came from Rajasthan

Laying down educational qualifications for panchayat and zila parishad elections endangers democracy. Prime Minister Narendra Modi has received plenty of flak for resorting...

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Sustainable Development

63 million people faced with poverty due to healthcare expenditure

A whopping 63 million people are faced with poverty every year due to “catastrophic” expenditure over healthcare which neutralises the gains of rising income an...

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Health

Conditions caused due to poor sanitation the reason for large number of maternal and newborn deaths

Lack of safe water, sanitation and hygiene in birth settings is killing mothers and newborns in the developing world, shows a new study. In a flagship paper, 16 researchers...

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Environment

Global Warming:The top 5 climate science and policy developments to watch in 2015

2014 was widely seen as a breakthrough year when decision-makers finally turned the corner in the effort to avert runaway climate change. Agreements on climate change?to pa...

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Environment

2014 Brought Lasting Action On Climate Change Policy

Some of the stories that gripped our attention in 2014 will probably be forgotten in a few years ? if not a few weeks. But there's one story that President Obama argues we'...

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