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Climate change erodes education outcomes: World Bank
Updated : 1 year, 10 months ago IST
Over the past 20 years, schools were closed during around 75 percent or more of the extreme weather events that impacted 5 million people or more. It's now common for a country to close their schools multiple times over the course of a year due to heatwaves, flooding, high levels of pollutio
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Miniature Circuit Breaker 'Hidden Hero' Enabling Energy Transition Built o
Updated : 1 year, 10 months ago IST
Bangalore (Karnataka) [India], May 7: ABB's first-of-its-kind Miniature Circuit Breaker (MCB)* reaches a milestone 100-year anniversary of protecting electrical circuits and while evolving to meet the sustainability needs of the future. MCB's has transformed our daily lives by ensuring the s
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Despite deprived of water, electricty, Chhattisgarh's Pahari Korwa tribe a
Updated : 1 year, 10 months ago IST
Pahadi Korwa, a particularly vulnerable tribal group (PVTG), also known as adopted childrens of the President lack basic facilities like water, electricity and housing, face a stark reality: a life devoid of the the basic necessities.
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SBI Life Insurance & Lucknow Traffic Police highlight the importance o
Updated : 1 year, 10 months ago IST
Lucknow (Uttar Pradesh) [India], April 29: SBI Life Insurance, one of the most trusted private life insurers in the country, & Lucknow Traffic Police conducted a public awareness drive to highlight the importance of 'protection' and increase helmet adoption in Lucknow city. The awareness
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J-K: Police on high alert ahead of polling in Jammu; drones, sniffer dogs
Updated : 1 year, 10 months ago IST
Ahead of the voting in Jammu during the second phase of the Lok Sabha elections, the security personnel are on high alert and are carrying out patrolling in vulnerable areas.
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Need to address inequities in access to malaria prevention services: WHO R
Updated : 1 year, 10 months ago IST
"In recent years, global efforts to reduce malaria have stagnated, posing a significant threat to public health and exacerbating inequalities within communities. Everyone has the right to quality, timely, and affordable malaria services, yet this remains elusive for many, perpetuating a cycl
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Houthi attacks in Red Sea preventing food, medicine from reaching vulnerab
Updated : 1 year, 11 months ago IST
US Secretary of State, Antony Blinken on Friday highlighted that the attacks by the Iranian-backed Houthi terrorists on commercial ships in the Red Sea are preventing food and medicine from reaching vulnerable populations.
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18 CAPF companies deployed at Imphal East as Inner Manipur braces for poll
Updated : 1 year, 11 months ago IST
"We have categorised the polling stations into three categories in terms of security of polling stations. In normal category, we do not anticipate any disturbance. There is no past experience of poll violence in these polling stations. There we are deploying sufficient state police personnel
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UN experts condemn forced marriages, religious conversions in Pakistan
Updated : 1 year, 11 months ago IST
"Christian and Hindu girls remain particularly vulnerable to forced religious conversion, abduction, trafficking, child, early and forced marriage, domestic servitude and sexual violence," the experts said in a statement issued in Geneva on Thursday.
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Around 5,000 polling booths identified as vulnerable in Punjab: Chief Elec
Updated : 1 year, 11 months ago IST
Punjab Chief Electoral Officer (CEO) Sibin C on Friday said that vulnerability mapping ahead of the Lok Sabha poll is going on and around 5,000 polling booths have been identified as vulnerable.
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Tamil Nadu has 8,050 vulnerable, 181 critical polling stations: State chie
Updated : 1 year, 11 months ago IST
Tamil Nadu, which will go to polls for all 39 seats in the first phase of the general elections on April 19, has a total of 8,050 vulnerable polling stations and 181 critical polling station, officials said.
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Shah Rukh Khan La Trobe University PhD Scholarship of $225,000 (AUD), awar
Updated : 1 year, 12 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], March 20: The second prestigious Shah Rukh Khan La Trobe University PhD Scholarship was today presented to a New Delhi student with a passion to improve health outcomes for vulnerable communities, to study in Australia.
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