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Pakistan: Decline in textile export hurts livelihoods, economy
Updated : 3 years ago IST
Pakistan's ongoing power crisis just added to the problem. Frequent and longer outages and higher energy costs have driven many out of business. This has rendered losses of USD 70 billion to the textile industry alone, reported Asian Lite International.
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Women in Bihar's Gaya earn livelihood from 'Neera' ice creams
Updated : 3 years ago IST
Women in Bihar's Gaya district have found livelihood in ice creams made from neera (also called palm nectar), a pre-fermentation version of palm juice.
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'Mission Youth' transforms lives of J-K youth, bags PM's award for innovat
Updated : 3 years, 1 month ago IST
'Mission Youth' has succeeded in turning J-K youth into ambassadors of innovation, peace and development through systematic interventions for youth engagement and outreach under six domains including livelihood generation, education/skill development, financial assistance, counselling/theory
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Impact of transformation of groundwater challenges on rural women and chil
Updated : 3 years, 1 month ago IST
Bengaluru (Karnataka) [India], April 19 (ANI/PRNewswire): To eliminate the groundwater crisis in rural areas, The Art of Living initiated one of the most effective & scalable water conservation projects, JalTara, which entails increasing the underground water table and helping impoverish
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Overcoming adversity: How J-K's Mohammad Rafee became a role model for dis
Updated : 3 years, 1 month ago IST
Mohammad Rafee, a 35-year-old man from Lawaypora in the area of central Kashmir's Srinagar city, is inspiring hundreds of handicapped persons to stand on their own legs and live a better life. Despite being disabled, Rafee has reached the national level in wheelchair basketball and has also
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Over 200 municipalities, nagar panchayats being linked with basic faciliti
Updated : 3 years, 1 month ago IST
Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath on Thursday said that over 200 municipalities and Nagar panchayats were formed in the last 6 years and now, for 'ease of living' in Nagar panchayats, work is being done to ensure the presence of basic facilities in them.
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NASSCOM Foundation and Micro Focus now Open Text collaboration empowers 10
Updated : 3 years, 1 month ago IST
New Delhi [India], April 5 (ANI/Mediawire): NASSCOM Foundation and Micro Focus now Open Text partnered to provide digital skills training to youth in an effort to prepare them for the ever-changing workforce. The Digital Literacy Livelihood Training Program that started in August last year a
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Sai Life Sciences and NIIT Foundation partner to create livelihood opportu
Updated : 3 years, 1 month ago IST
Hyderabad (Telangana) [India], March 29 (ANI/PRNewswire): Sai Life Sciences, one of India's fastest growing Contract Research, Development & Manufacturing Organizations (CRO-CDMO), today announced entering into an agreement with NIIT Foundation, a not-for-profit education society, to imp
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A resolution through farmer's training on the water crisis management in A
Updated : 3 years, 1 month ago IST
Bengaluru (Karnataka) [India], March 29 (ANI/PRNewswire): The Art of Living JalTara team recognized that the water crisis in India is no longer just a shortage of drinking water but a problem at a more significant level. Rural inhabitants in India are not even entitled to water to take care
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Assam: Students sensitised on importance of biodiversity at Orang Nature C
Updated : 3 years, 2 months ago IST
High school students from six schools located in fringe areas of Orang National Park and Tiger Reserve (OTR) in Darrang district of Assam took part in Second Orang Nature Camp. Various sessions conducted by different conservation experts tried to educate young minds on how nature sustains ou
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More than quarter of world's population has no safe drinking water: UNESCO
Updated : 3 years, 2 months ago IST
More than a quarter, 26 per cent of the world's population, comprising approximately 2 billion people, do not have safe drinking water and 3.6 billion or 46 per cent lack access to safely managed sanitation, according to the report, published by UNESCO on behalf of UN-Water and released a
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Young girls from Kashmir break stereotypes, opt for male dominant jobs
Updated : 3 years, 2 months ago IST
Women empowerment in Jammu and Kashmir was not less than a challenge for the Indian government, but the measures taken so far have brought laurels and also proved fruitful as many of the young girls instead of sitting idle at home, have managed to set up their own units where they earn their
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