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Environmental damage in Sundarbans cost a fortune: World Bank

Environmental damage in the climate change-hit islands of Sundarbans is costing India Rs 1,290 crore each year, estimates a latest World Bank report. The cost of environmen...

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Environment

India eyes financial support from developed nations

India is concentrating its efforts on ensuring that rich industrialized countries provide predictable and adequate finance and technology to developing countries to tackle ...

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Sustainable Development

India?s quiet women farmers slip into crisis

Millions of women have gone from being land owners and cultivators to becoming labourers over a decade. Slight and dark, Shyampati, 30, leaned against a house made fragile ...

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Highway, Diya Aur Baati Hum, Udann and Beti project honoured at Elevate 2015

Imtiaz Ali’s movie Highway, the Star Plus daily soap Diya Aur Baati Hum,Colors social message show Udann and Anu Ranjan’s NGO Beti fighting for the cause o...

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Bollywood

India’s Daughter gets support from Bollywood celebs like Genelia Deshmukh and Aditi Rao Hydari!

Members of the film fraternity reacted strongly against the orders to restrain the broadcast of a documentary based on December 16, 2012 gang-rape, including an interview w...

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Health

Nagaland CM stresses for Agriculture varsity in state

Nagaland Chief Minister T R Zeliang has stressed the need of a Central Agriculture University in Nagaland to enhance productivity in agricultural and horticultural crops fo...

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Sustainable Development

World’s first solar-powered airplane to fly around the world

Solar Impulse-2 (Si-2), which will take off on Saturday, will be used to raise awareness about the potential of clean energy Solar Impulse-2 or Si-2, an airplane which uses...

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Sustainable Development

How does India’s Budget fare on sustainable development?

India’s new government, led by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, announced its first annual Union Budget on Saturday. The budget was hailed as pro-poor and pro-growth, bu...

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Health

Indian maternal health far worse than previously thought

As per a new study, maternal health in India much worse than previously thought as more than 40% of women are underweight when they begin pregnancy. The findings of Princet...

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Mahesh Bhatt, Garry Lyons to preside over Elevate 2015

Coinciding with the International Women’s Day, Garry Lyons of the University of Leeds, UK, along with activist-filmmaker Mahesh Bhatt, will preside over Elevate 2015,...

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