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India to receive over record USD 100 billion in remittances in 2022: World
Updated : 3 years, 3 months ago IST
In its latest Migration and Development Brief, World Bank said remittance flows to India will rise 12 per cent, putting its inflows ahead of countries including China, Mexico and the Philippines.
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Beijing has more means to suppress protests than 1989 Tiananmen crackdown:
Updated : 3 years, 3 months ago IST
Over the weekend, thousands of people in Shanghai, China's biggest city and financial centre, began publicly protesting the government's strict Covid-19 measures and denouncing the Chinese Communist Party's authoritarian rule.
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Locally-grown school meals can be beneficial for children, farmers, climat
Updated : 3 years, 3 months ago IST
School closures during the COVID-19 pandemic brought a decade's growth in school feeding programmes to a dramatic halt, leaving about 370 million school children without access to their one reliable meal a day, according to UNICEF.
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New analysis finds pandemic didn't dampen deforestation
Updated : 3 years, 3 months ago IST
Despite the massive upheavals in the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic, deforestation globally proceeded more or less as expected from the trends established over the last 15 years, according to a recent study from researchers at the Alliance of Bioversity International and CIAT.
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CM Shivraj Chouhan to attend Manipur's Sangai Festival as chief guest
Updated : 3 years, 3 months ago IST
Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan will attend Manipur's Sangai Festival on Sunday, said a statement from the Chief Minister's Office (CMO).
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China reports third consecutive daily record for new Covid cases
Updated : 3 years, 3 months ago IST
35,909 cases were reported including 3,405 locally transmitted cases and 31,504 local asymptomatic cases, state media Xinhua reported.
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Pathbreaking initiative to improve children's learning at scale
Updated : 3 years, 3 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], November 25 (ANI/PNN): The results released for the Haryana Early Literacy Development Impact Bond (DIB): A Pay-for-Success model show significantly improved learning outcomes in 164,000 children of 3,300 primary classes in government schools, despite the COVID-19 pandemic
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China reports new daily record COVID cases for second consecutive day
Updated : 3 years, 3 months ago IST
Of the total COVID cases, 3,041 were symptomatic while 29,654 were asymptomatic, Reuters news agency reported. The report added that Thursday's new local COVID-19 infections set a daily record, beating a figure set in mid-April.
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China's daily Covid cases hit record high: Report
Updated : 3 years, 3 months ago IST
On Monday, China's top health official said that country is facing the 'most complicated and severest anti-epidemic situation' since the emergence of coronavirus.
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South Korea's childbirth rate hit record low of 0.79 per woman in third qu
Updated : 3 years, 3 months ago IST
The number of babies born was the lowest since statistics were compiled in the same quarter, while the number of deaths was the highest due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The natural decline in the population continued for 35 months as the number of births declined and the number of death soared.
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Dr Vijay Kishore Bansal earns recognition through his philanthropic work
Updated : 3 years, 4 months ago IST
Agra (Uttar Pradesh) [India], November 22 (ANI/PNN): For his extensive philanthropic work during the COVID-19 pandemic, renowned social worker Dr Vijay Kishore Bansal is continually being felicitated by various social organizations.
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India, China, Korea drive growth as global intellectual property filings t
Updated : 3 years, 4 months ago IST
The WIPO's World Intellectual Property Indicators (WIPI) report showed that innovators around the world filed 3.4 million patent applications in 2021, up 3.6 per cent from the previous year with offices in Asia receiving 67.6 per cent of all applications worldwide.
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