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Climate change increases extreme rainfall, chance of floods: Experts
Updated : 4 years, 9 months ago IST
London [UK], June 7 (ANI): Climate experts at the Newcastle University warn that, without urgent action, climate change will continue to cause an increase in the intensity of extreme rainfall that can lead to severe flooding.
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13 million people in Afghanistan lack food as drought crisis bites: Report
Updated : 4 years, 10 months ago IST
Kabul [Afghanistan], April 21 (ANI): The International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) has said that urgent action is needed to avert a deepening crisis in Afghanistan as one-third of the country's population is surviving without adequate food due to a worsening dro
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UN needs to step up against 'Uyghur genocide' in China: Pro-Uyghur body
Updated : 4 years, 11 months ago IST
Munich [Germany], March 22 (ANI): Reiterating the need for urgent action to address the Uyghur genocide and China's threat to the United Nations human rights mechanisms, the World Uyghur Congress (WUC) asserted that the UN needs to "step up" and act in line with its self-pronounced core valu
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Top medical journal calls for three urgent steps against COVID-19
Updated : 5 years ago IST
New Delhi [India], February 20 (ANI): In an analysis, the Lancet COVID-19 Commission has called for three urgent actions in the COVID-19 response.
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Hong Kong has entered fourth COVID-19 wave, say experts
Updated : 5 years, 3 months ago IST
Hong Kong [China], November 20 (ANI): Hong Kong's top infectious disease experts on Thursday (local time) warned the government that the fourth wave of COVID-19 has begun in the city and called for urgent action.
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Number of available ICU beds to be increased to 6,000 in Delhi: NITI Aayog
Updated : 5 years, 3 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], November 17 (ANI): Urgent actions have been taken by the Centre on the COVID-19 situation in Delhi including an increase in the overall ICU beds from 3,500 to 6,000 in the next few days, said Dr VK Paul, Member (Health), NITI Aayog on Tuesday.
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Ahead of World Diabetes Day, experts call for urgent action to address glo
Updated : 5 years, 4 months ago IST
Washington [US], November 13 (ANI): Ahead of World Diabetes Day (November 14), a new report has called for action to close the gap in diabetes prevention and care. Worldwide, 463 million people have diabetes, with 80% from low-income and middle- income countries (LMICs). In 2019, 4.2 million
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NHRC urges action to protect victims of COVID-19
Updated : 5 years, 5 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], October 7 (ANI): The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) has released an advisory suggesting urgent action to protect the victims of the COVID-19 pandemic, including children.
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Activist urges UN to take action against crimes on Baloch people by Pakist
Updated : 5 years, 5 months ago IST
Geneva [Switzerland], September 29 (ANI): Baloch activist Mazdak Dilshad Baloch has urged the United Nations to take urgent action against the crimes inflicted on the Baloch people by the Pakistan Government.
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Gadkari calls for clearing of blockades at inter-state borders for smooth
Updated : 5 years, 10 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], April 28 (ANI): Union Minister of Road Transport and Highways Nitin Gadkari on Tuesday called upon all the States/UTs to take urgent action so that blockades of trucks and lorries at inter-state/UT borders are cleared at the earliest possible, as the smooth movement of ess
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IATA calls for global mutual recognition by civil aviation authorities
Updated : 5 years, 10 months ago IST
Montreal [Canada], April 28 (ANI): The International Air Transport Association (IATA) has called on regulators to take urgent action to help civil aviation operate seamlessly and safely between states during the COVID-19 pandemic as well as to help facilitate the restart when the virus is co
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Ghazipur landfill hazardous, govt should take urgent action: Parliamentary
Updated : 6 years ago IST
New Delhi [India], Mar 14 (ANI): A parliamentary committee has expressed concern over the rising mound of municipal waste at the Ghazipur landfill and recommended that the government should take steps to remove the garbage from the site soon.
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