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IMF urges countries to spend all they can during coronavirus pandemic
Updated : 5 years, 11 months ago IST
Washington DC [USA], April 16 (ANI): IMF Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva has outlined the difficult economic environment countries are facing because of the COVID-19 epidemic and her global plan of action to take it on.
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Chief ministers raised issues of dipping revenue, livelihoods during inter
Updated : 5 years, 11 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], April 11 (ANI): Several chief ministers raised issues concerning people including loss of livelihoods due to the crisis created by COVID-19 during their interaction with Prime Minister Narendra Modi and sought funds from Centre due to their dipping revenues, Puducherry Ch
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Women SHGs in Odisha prepare masks for COVID-19 warriors
Updated : 5 years, 11 months ago IST
Keonjhar (Odisha) [India], April 9 (ANI): Amid rising concerns over shortage of protective gear as the COVID-19 cases surge across the country, women Self Help Groups (SHG) under Mission Shakti and Odisha Livelihoods Mission (OLM) prepared face masks for police force, sanitation and frontlin
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Union Tribal Minister Arjun Munda asks CMs to protect livelihood of triba
Updated : 5 years, 11 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], April 7 (ANI): Union Minister for Tribal Affairs Arjun Munda has written to a number of Chief Ministers to initiate the process of undertaking procurement of minor forest produce at the Minimum Support Price (MSP). The communication aims to mitigate the effect of lockdown
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Saving lives and protecting livelihoods go hand in hand: IMF
Updated : 5 years, 11 months ago IST
Washington DC [USA], April 4 (ANI): IMF Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva has urged the world to come together to protect the most vulnerable from the unprecedented health and economic crisis.
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GiveIndia launches mission to support coronavirus-hit families
Updated : 5 years, 11 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Mar 26 (ANI): Online platform GiveIndia has started a mission to support families impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic in India, which is likely to result in loss of livelihoods for a very large number of people -- especially among the daily wage workers.
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Producers Guild of India comes to rescue of daily wagers of entertainment
Updated : 5 years, 12 months ago IST
Mumbai (Maharashtra) [India], Mar 17 (ANI): Producers Guild of India (GUILD) on Tuesday announced to establish a relief fund for the daily-wage workers involved in entertainment industry whose livelihoods have been hit by COVID-19 pandemic.
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Ministry of Rural Development signs MoU with Gates Foundation
Updated : 6 years, 1 month ago IST
New Delhi [India], Jan 23 (ANI): The Rural Development Ministry, under the Deendayal Antyodaya Yojana-National Rural Livelihoods Mission (DAY-NRLM), signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation for strengthening grassroots institutions of the rural po
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Flipkart partners with NULM to empower artisans and self-help groups
Updated : 6 years, 2 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Dec 30 (ANI): Leading e-commerce marketplace Flipkart on Monday partnered with the Deendayal Antyodaya Yojana -- National Urban Livelihoods Mission (DAY-NULM) under the Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs to empower skilled yet underserved sections of society by induc
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Agritech platform Safal Fasal launched in India to improve farmer liveliho
Updated : 6 years, 2 months ago IST
Lucknow (Uttar Pradesh) [India] Dec 19 (ANI/NewsVoir): In a bid to resolve farmer woes and create supply chain efficiency in agriculture, global fintech solution provider BPC has launched Safal Fasal, a digital platform that gives small and marginal farmers greater access to finance, technol
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ADB hosts forum to promote farmers' livelihoods, rural development and foo
Updated : 6 years, 4 months ago IST
Manila [Philippines], Oct 28 (ANI): Ensuring access to nutritious, safe and affordable food enabled by modern technologies and creative policies is essential to achieve inclusive and sustainable development in Asia and the Pacific, participants heard at the Rural Development and Food Securit
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Reducing duty on dairy products would cause major unrest among rural India
Updated : 6 years, 5 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Oct 2 (ANI): RSS-affiliate Swadeshi Jagran Manch (SJM) on Wednesday urged the central government to not sign Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) negotiations while cautioning that any such move would cause major unrest among rural India and adversely affect
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