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Pandemic response in SE Asia must address rising inequalities: UN Report
Updated : 5 years, 7 months ago IST
Bangkok [Thailand], Aug 1 (ANI): The United Nations has commended governments in southeast Asia for acting swiftly to stem the most serious health consequences of Covid-19 pandemic but highlighted the need to curb rising inequalities across the region.
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Skill-based education for industry-ready engineers
Updated : 5 years, 7 months ago IST
New Delhi [India] July 31 (ANI/Digpu): The World Economic Forum's Future of Jobs study predicts that five million jobs will be lost before 2020 as artificial intelligence, robotics, nanotechnology, and other socio-economic factors replace the need for human workers.
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Odisha: Free uniforms, textbooks for class 9, 10 students in Keonjhar to r
Updated : 5 years, 7 months ago IST
Bhubaneswar (Odisha) [India], July 22 (ANI): In a first-of-its-kind initiative, Keonjhar district administration of Odisha, has decided to provide free textbooks and uniforms along with mid-day meals to the students of class 9 and 10, studying in government and aided schools, from this acade
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Future of healthcare industry after COVID-19
Updated : 5 years, 8 months ago IST
New Delhi [India] July 2 (ANI/Digpu): COVID-19 has waged an undeclared war against society encompassing all quarters of socio-economic health and hygiene fronts. We humans as a society just weren't ready for a pandemic of this magnitude. This has exposed the fundamental vulnerabilities in th
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Lack of internet access may widen income inequality within and between cou
Updated : 5 years, 8 months ago IST
Washington DC [USA], June 30 (ANI): The lack of universal and affordable access to the internet may widen income inequality within and between countries, a senior official of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) has said while urging policymakers to foster a digital-friendly business and re
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Opening space sector will enable India to play important role in global sp
Updated : 5 years, 8 months ago IST
Bengaluru (Karnataka) [India], June 25 (ANI): ISRO chief K Sivan on Thursday stated that opening the space sector for private enterprises will help scale up benefits from space technology and enable Indian industry to be an important player in the global space economy.
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COVID-19 caused unprecedented jobs crisis globally: ILO
Updated : 5 years, 8 months ago IST
Geneva [Switzerland], June 22 (ANI): Almost all of the world's workers, some 94 per cent, were living in countries with some type of workplace closure measures in place in May, according to the United Nations' policy brief 'The World of Work and COVID-19'.
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Study reveals caring responsibilities likely to affect mental, physical he
Updated : 5 years, 8 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], June 20 (ANI): Elderly men and women, specifically the ones over the age of fifty, besides socio-economic disadvantages are more likely to experience problems with their mental and physical health than people who do not provide any care, suggests a novel study.
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Caring responsibilities may affect mental, physical health and restrict ab
Updated : 5 years, 9 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], June 17 (ANI): Besides socio-economic disadvantages, men and women over the age of fifty with caring responsibilities, are more likely to experience problems with their mental and physical health than people who do not provide any care, according to a new study.
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Govt implements Shekatkar Committee recommendations on ramping up border i
Updated : 5 years, 10 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], May 18 (ANI): The government has accepted and implemented three important recommendations of Committee of Experts (CoE) under the Chairmanship of Lt General D B Shekatkar (Retd) relating to speeding up road construction for socio-economic development in the border areas.
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Indoctrination turned Maldives from tourism hub to terror recruitment grou
Updated : 5 years, 10 months ago IST
Amsterdam [Netherlands], April 20 (ANI): The societal change brought about by the dissemination and institutionalisation of fundamental Islam, poor socio-economic factors fomented by political instability, combined with the proselytisation of extremist ideology has fermented the Maldives as
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Proselytisation of extremist ideology fermented Maldives as recruitment gr
Updated : 5 years, 10 months ago IST
Amsterdam [Netherlands], April 20 (ANI): The societal change brought about by the dissemination and institutionalisation of fundamental Islam, poor socio-economic factors fomented by political instability, combined with the proselytisation of extremist ideology has fermented the Maldives as
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