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9 million people are at risk of famine in Afghanistan: UN Chief
Updated : 4 years, 3 months ago IST
New York [US], April 1 (ANI): Highlighting the humanitarian situation in Afghanistan, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Thursday (local time) said that nine million people are at risk of famine in the troubled country.
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Domestic natural gas prices doubled; CNG, cooking gas to get costlier
Updated : 4 years, 3 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], March 31 (ANI): Domestic natural gas prices will be more than doubled to USD 6.10 per million British thermal unit (mmBtu) effective from April 1, 2022, from the current USD 2.90 per mmBtu, Petroleum Planning and Analysis Cell (PPAC) of the Ministry of Petroleum and Natura
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Consulting and Beyond's capital and growth for SMEs of India, a panel disc
Updated : 4 years, 3 months ago IST
Chennai (Tamil Nadu) [India], March 31 (ANI/PNN): The SME sector in India has emerged as a dynamic and highly vibrant sector of the Indian economy in the last five decades. There is an estimation of more than 63 million SMEs in India which employs a workforce of around 106 million, forming a
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Ucanji - an innovative online learning platform crosses 1 million users in
Updated : 4 years, 3 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], March 31 (ANI/PNN): A major Made-in-India online dance learning platform that offers creative solutions to improve people's lives through dance, Ucanji has achieved one million users from India and around the world. It has come in less than a year after the dance learning
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ADB and HSBC set up $100 mn partial guarantee programme for microfinance i
Updated : 4 years, 3 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], March 31 (ANI): The Asian Development Bank (ADB) and HSBC India (HSBC) on Thursday signed an agreement to establish a $100 million partial guarantee programme to support more than 400,000 micro-borrowers and mostly women-run micro-enterprises across India.
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World Bank puts on hold four projects in Afghanistan worth USD 600 mn over
Updated : 4 years, 3 months ago IST
Washington [US], March 31 (ANI): The World Bank has announced that they have put on hold four projects in Afghanistan worth USD 600 million following the Taliban's decision to ban girls from attending school above the sixth grade in the country.
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Dharmendra Pradhan launches over 1 lakh internship opportunities for youth
Updated : 4 years, 3 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], March 31 (ANI): Union Minister of Education Dharmendra Pradhan on Wednesday launched over 1 lakh internship opportunities for the youth through the All India Council For Technical Education internship portal and said there should be an aim to provide 100 million internship
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WFP delivers food aid to over 1 million people in Ukraine, seeks USD 590 m
Updated : 4 years, 3 months ago IST
Rome [Italy], March 31 (ANI/Sputnik): The World Food Programme (WFP) said on Wednesday that it has delivered food aid to 1 million people in Ukraine and requested an additional USD 590 million in funding to expand the assistance.
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China deploys strictest COVID-19 curbs in Shanghai since pandemic beginnin
Updated : 4 years, 3 months ago IST
Shanghai [China], March 30 (ANI): Amid the rapidly increasing COVID-19 cases, the Chinese authorities have imposed the strictest lockdown measures in the city of 26 million since the beginning of the pandemic in 2020, a media report said.
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UK pledges USD 374 million to Afghanistan in humanitarian aid
Updated : 4 years, 3 months ago IST
London [UK], March 30 (ANI): The United Kingdom (UK) has pledged USD 374 million towards the provision of food grains and other humanitarian aid to Afghanistan.
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Over 4 million refugees fled Ukraine: UN
Updated : 4 years, 3 months ago IST
New York [US], March 30 (ANI): As Russia's war on Ukraine is set to enter its sixth week, the number of refugees fleeing Ukraine has now crossed the 4 million mark, the chief of the UN refugee agency, Filippo Grandi said on Wednesday.
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Cabinet approves USD 808 million for "Raising and Accelerating MSME Perfor
Updated : 4 years, 3 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], March 30 (ANI): The Union Cabinet chaired by Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday approved a USD 808 million (Rs 6,062.45 crore), World Bank assisted programme on "Raising and Accelerating MSME Performance" (RAMP).
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