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Climate change ‘single biggest hindrance’ to human development

The recently released Human Development Report has identified six major threats to human development and proposed a set of policies and reforms to address these vulnerabili...

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Sustainable Development

Systematic approach to in-situ water harvesting assures irrigation

During summer, the field is ploughed and furrows (one foot depth) are made. When it rains the water stays back in each of the furrows and sinks into the soil. Fast changing...

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Environment

Wanted: more international funding to fight climate change

The Economic Survey 2013-14, announced on Wednesday, appears to be setting the tone for India’s climate change negotiations on global fora. It is in line with a state...

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Health

Poverty, child, maternal deaths high in India: UN report

India continues to battle poverty, child and maternal deaths, according to a United Nations report on the Millennium Development Goals that said while several key global ta...

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Sustainable Development

Maheshwar dam: NGT directs state to sort out rehabilitation problems

In the last two years since completion of dam, many houses have either been immersed or washed away, and people have been left without either a roof over their heads or pro...

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Sustainable Development

A reporter’s notebook

Crime against women in Uttar Pradesh might have hit the headlines, but following two Khabar Lahariya journalists on a day’s work shows that little has changed over de...

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Sustainable Development

Over one lakh suicides in India every year, report says

Over 1, 00,000 people commit suicides in India every year on an average. The number of suicides in the past decade has recorded an increase of 21.6 per cent, said a governm...

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Hollywood

Kate del Castillo Says No To Animal Circuses In Mexico City

Mexico City is poised to ban the use of animals in circuses, with the recently passed bill just awaiting Mayor Miguel Ángel Mancera’s signature—and in a ...

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Sustainable Development

Bengaluru's trash talk

City administration makes fresh promises to get an extension to dump its waste at Mandur village. But will the five-month breather be enough for Bengaluru to overcome its g...

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Sustainable Development

Kerala Panchayat sets an example by ensuring safety for women

While crimes against women are being reported in all corners of the country, one panchayat in Kerala’s Alappuzha district has made it its mission to ensure that the s...

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