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ADB meets commitment to double annual climate financing to $6 billion
Updated : 6 years, 3 months ago IST
Manila [Philippines], Dec 9 (ANI): The Asian Development Bank (ADB) said on Monday it has achieved a key commitment to double its annual climate investments from three billion dollars in 2014, hitting a record high of more than six billion dollars in climate-related financing during 2019.
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Inequality threatening human development, warns new global UN report
Updated : 6 years, 3 months ago IST
New York [USA], Dec 9 (ANI): Despite global progress in tackling poverty, hunger and disease, a new generation of inequalities indicates that many societies are not working as they should, the UN Development Programme (UNDP) argued in its latest report released on Monday.
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Central Govt incapable of bringing the country out of economic slowdown: C
Updated : 6 years, 3 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Dec 5 (ANI): Former Finance Minister and senior Congress leader P Chidambaram on Thursday said that the BJP-led central government is "incapable" of bringing the country out of economic slowdown and it has since 2016, pushed millions of people below the poverty line. Read More
Udhampur: Mushroom cultivation attracts locals, witnesses surge in women p
Updated : 6 years, 3 months ago IST
Udhampur (Jammu and Kashmir), Dec 4 (ANI): A growing number of women from the region are engaging in mushroom cultivation as a means to increase their income and come out of poverty.
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Kerala: Stricken by extreme poverty, woman hands over her 6 children to Ch
Updated : 6 years, 3 months ago IST
Thiruvananthapuram (Kerala) [India], Dec 3 (ANI): Struck by extreme poverty, a woman here has handed over her six children to the Kerala State Council for Child Welfare (KSCCW).
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Jharkhand assembly poll: BJP promises mobile phone to farmers, one job for
Updated : 6 years, 4 months ago IST
Ranchi (Jharkhand) [India], Nov 27 (ANI): Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has promised mobile phone to every farmer, one job for below the poverty line (BPL) family in the state if voted to power again in the ensuing Jharkhand Assembly polls.
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ADB, Alibaba establish strategic partnership for rural vitalisation in Chi
Updated : 6 years, 4 months ago IST
Beijing [China], Nov 21 (ANI): Asian Development Bank (ADB) and Alibaba Group have signed a memorandum of understanding to cooperate in support of rural vitalisation in China by promoting development of internet-plus economy to help modernise the agriculture sector with the aim of helping el
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CPI's Binoy Viswan gives suspension of business notice in Rajya Sabha over
Updated : 6 years, 4 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Nov 19 (ANI): Communist Party of India (CPI) Rajya Sabha MP Binoy Viswan on Tuesday gave a suspension of business notice in the Upper House under rule 267, over the Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) issue.
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India will lead world in combating challenges of poverty, terrorism and cl
Updated : 6 years, 4 months ago IST
Chandigarh [India], Nov 16 (ANI): Union Commerce and Industry Minister Piyush Goyal on Saturday spoke on India's initiatives on combating environment challenges along with fulfilling the growing needs of the population, saying, "One must have a very delicate balance between the environment a
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Eliminate corruption, poverty to mark celebrations of 550th Parkash Purab:
Updated : 6 years, 4 months ago IST
Sultanpur Lodhi (Punjab) [India], Nov 11 (ANI): Punjab's Finance Minister Manpreet Singh Badal on Monday appealed the people to celebrate the 550th birth anniversary of Guru Nanak Dev ji by eliminating the evils like corruption, atrocities and poverty from the society.
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Pace of growth in rural areas major hurdle in India's development: Pranab
Updated : 6 years, 4 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Nov 2 (ANI): Former President Pranab Mukherjee on Saturday said that the pace of growth in remote and rural parts of the country is a major hurdle in the country's development and advocated for a 'growth strategy' to make a 'decisive impact on poverty and trigger developme
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Muraleedharan meets Fiji minister, discusses ways of boosting bilateral ti
Updated : 6 years, 4 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Oct 30 (ANI): Minister of State for External Affairs V Muraleedharan met Fiji's Assistant Minister for Women, Children and Poverty Alleviation, Veena Bhatnagar here on Tuesday and discussed measures for giving a thrust to bilateral relations.
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