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Sustainable Development

Bitcoin ATMs Are Popular With The Unbanked, But The Regulatory Future Is Unclear

A trend is emerging in the Bitcoin ATM industry. Demand for the services among the underbanked and unbanked has seen steady growth in the two years since the industry&rsquo...

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Bollywood

Working Women Is The Need Of The Hour: Sonali

SonaliBendre Behl talked about her book and the experience of motherhood at the Women Economic Forum, an annual summit in Delhi.Quoted in a daily, a source said, "Sonali ad...

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Health

Urban Health: Major Opportunities For Improving Global Health Outcomes, Despite Persistent Health Inequities

New data on the health of city-dwellers in almost 100 countries show that as the world’s urban population continues to grow, health inequities - especially between th...

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Human Rights

Waterless In Marathwada: Farm Crisis Is Extra Hard On Women

In Marathwada’s worst-hit districts of Beed, Osmanabad and Latur, households now have an uncompromising priority list of expenses as an economy hit by years of near-t...

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Gender

Letting India's Women Own Land

This month, 600 women gathered under a huge blue-and-yellow-striped tent in Baripada, a small city in Odisha, a state in India’s east. They were among India’s m...

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Sustainable Development

What A Little Land Can Do?

The poorest people in the world are those who don’t have land. In India, landlessness is a better predictor of poverty than illiteracy or belonging to castes at the b...

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Sustainable Development

UP’s Mini-Grid Policy Tries To Boost Rural Electrification

Following its move to allow a special status to mini-solar-grids, the Uttar Pradesh government released details on the mini-grid policy last week. Under the scheme, the sta...

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Environment

A Long Walk For Water

Members of 82.2% rural households in Chhattisgarh walk almost 500m a day to fetch drinking water, which means they cover a distance equivalent to that between Gurgaon and A...

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Gender

Women In India Are Now Legally Allowed To Be Head Of Their Households

India is slowly giving women the recognition they deserve.The Delhi high court ruled that the eldest female member of a family can now act as the legal head of household, a...

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Gender

How Society Pays When Women's Work Is Unpaid

In countries around the world, the ways in which men and women spend their time are unbalanced. Men spend more time working for money. Women do the bulk of the unpaid work ...

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