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India saves $4.2 bn in fuel costs via solar generation in first half of 20
Updated : 3 years, 4 months ago IST
The report compiled by energy think tank Ember said India had been facing the high price of coal and this is one of the main factors in the ongoing power crises. However, the country managed to save $4.2 billion in fuel costs in the reviewed period and also avoided the use for an additional
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Afghanistan opium cultivation in 2022 up by 32 per cent: UN survey
Updated : 3 years, 4 months ago IST
Opium cultivation in Afghanistan - latest findings and emerging threats is the first report on the illicit opium economy since the Taliban, which assumed power in August 2021, banned cultivation of opium poppy and all narcotics in April 2022.
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In a first, G20 in Bali includes major religions as 'part of solution' to
Updated : 3 years, 4 months ago IST
Held in the most populous Muslim-majority nation and founded by the world's largest Muslim organisation, R20 will mobilize global leaders to help ensure that religion functions as a genuine and dynamic source of solutions, rather than problems, in the 21st century.
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Only half of SMB leaders are confident that ex-employees can't access the
Updated : 3 years, 4 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], October 28 (ANI/Bloomingdale): A recent Kaspersky study on the behavior of small and medium businesses during crises shows staff reductions may cause additional cybersecurity risks. Yet only 50 per cent of organizations' leaders are confident that their ex-employees don't
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ProU Education expands to India to transform 1 million careers
Updated : 3 years, 4 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], October 26 (ANI/GPRC): Young students and workers of today have arrived at the intersection of unimaginable technologies and unprecedented global turmoil. While the current workforce is ahead of its previous generations in technological prowess, ambitions, and talents, it
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50 pc of world's poorest need debt relief to avert major development crisi
Updated : 3 years, 5 months ago IST
New York [US], October 12 (ANI): Fifty-four developing economies accounting for more than half of the world's poorest people need urgent debt relief as a result of cascading global crises, according to the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP).
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Ben S Bernanke, Douglas W Diamond, Philip H Dybvig awarded Nobel Prize in
Updated : 3 years, 5 months ago IST
Stockholm [Sweden], October 10 (ANI): The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel was on Monday awarded to Ben S Bernanke, Douglas W Diamond, and Philip H Dybvig for their research work on bank regulation and how financial crises should be managed.
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India believes in mutual dialogue and diplomacy to solve food, energy secu
Updated : 3 years, 5 months ago IST
Jakarta [Indonesia], October 6 (ANI): Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla on Thursday said that the Russia-Ukraine crisis has adversely affected food and energy security in the world and India firmly believes that such conflicts should be resolved through mutual dialogue and diplomacy.
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"Jaage ho?..." Jaishankar narrates PM Modi's personal attention to crises
Updated : 3 years, 5 months ago IST
New York [US], September 23 (ANI): External Affairs minister S Jaishankar in New York praised the leadership skills of Prime Minister Narendra Modi while recalling the attack on the Mazar-e-Sharif in Afghanistan near the Indian consulate and while India was coordinating evacuations from the
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Risk of global recession rises amid simultaneous interest rate hikes: Worl
Updated : 3 years, 6 months ago IST
Washington [US], September 16 (ANI): As central banks across the world simultaneously hike interest rates in response to inflation, the world may be edging toward a global recession in 2023 and a string of financial crises in emerging markets and developing economies that would do them lasti
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Gates Foundation Goalkeepers Report says progress still possible despite s
Updated : 3 years, 6 months ago IST
Seattle (Washington) [US], September 13 (ANI/PRNewswire): The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation today released its sixth annual Goalkeepers Report, noting that nearly every indicator of the UN Sustainable Development Goals is off track at the halfway point for achieving them by 2030. Read More
United States asks China to cooperate with Sri Lanka's debt structuring
Updated : 3 years, 6 months ago IST
Colombo [Sri Lanka], September 13 (ANI): A United States diplomat asked China to cooperate with Sri Lanka's debt restructuring and advised the island nation to be responsible for future borrowings while agreeing to participate in the re-structuring of Sri Lanka's debt.
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