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USAID Dy Assistant Administrator for Asia Anjali Kaur visits India
Updated : 3 years ago IST
Deputy Assistant Administrator (DAA) of the Bureau for Asia Agency for International Development (USAID), Anjali Kaur is on a visit to India from March 11 to 15. The United States and India are partnering together to solve some of the world's toughest development challenges, including climat
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Foundational Literacy takes centre stage at the SERI summit organized by R
Updated : 3 years ago IST
New Delhi [India], March 11 (ANI/NewsReach): To assess critical elements of foundational literacy, understand systemic requirements to sustain literacy gains at scale, and comprehend how the Scaling-up Early Reading Intervention (SERI) project could act as a reference for literacy understa
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US announces USD 85 mn humanitarian aid for earthquake-hit Turkey, Syria
Updated : 3 years, 1 month ago IST
The new aid announced by the US is supporting US Agency for International Development (USAID) humanitarian partners to deliver urgently-needed aid to people in Turkey and in Syria.
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Frustrated with US agency's refusal to investigate grant to terrorism link
Updated : 3 years, 1 month ago IST
Michael McCaul, the chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, in a letter to United States Agency for International Development (USAID) administrator Samantha Power, demanded a full review.
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China's lending debacle: Development loans hit 13-year low
Updated : 3 years, 1 month ago IST
China's Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) has left scores of Lower and Middle-Income Countries (LMIC) saddled with "hidden debts." China is using debt rather than aid to establish a dominant position in the international development finance market.
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Edtech-focused accelerator to back foundational learning for kids from low
Updated : 3 years, 3 months ago IST
This consortium, which benefits from the expertise and support of founding partners Reliance Foundation and UBS Optimus Foundation with design and implementation by Central Square Foundation, British Asian Trust as fund manager and the US government, through the US Agency for International D
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UNICEF announces cash aid for Afghanistan's poor families
Updated : 3 years, 3 months ago IST
The United Nations Children's Emergency Fund (UNICEF) has announced cash aid for 100000 poor families in Afghanistan to help them survive the upcoming winter.
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US to invest over USD 15 million in India's health infrastructure
Updated : 3 years, 3 months ago IST
Through USD 15 million, the International Development Finance Corporation (DFC) will support the expansion of a chain of eye clinics for conducting corrective surgery for underserved individuals and an India-based social enterprise that manufactures affordable women's hygiene products. Read More
Important for India, Russia to compare notes on trade, investment: Lavrov
Updated : 3 years, 4 months ago IST
Jaishankar arrived in Moscow on Monday as a part of his two-day visit to Russia, in continuation of the regular high-level dialogue between the two sides. Talks between the two sides are expected to cover a range of bilateral issues and exchange views on various regional and international de
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The French Tech Tour 2022 - Accelerating French innovation in India
Updated : 3 years, 4 months ago IST
Mumbai (Maharashtra) [India], November 7 (ANI/PRNewswire): Business France, the Trade & Investment Commission of France in India, is organizing, the 6th edition of the 'French Tech Tour to India', from November 14 - 18, 2022. This tech tour consists of an immersion program for 4-innovati
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Jaishankar starts his Russia visit on Monday as war rages in Ukraine
Updated : 3 years, 4 months ago IST
Talks between the two sides are expected to cover the entire range of bilateral issues and exchange views on various regional and international developments.
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Jaishankar to visit Russia on November 7-8; discuss bilateral issues, inte
Updated : 3 years, 4 months ago IST
This will be Jaishankar's first visit to Russia since the Ukraine conflict began in February this year.
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