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BVR Subrahmanyam is new CEO of Niti Aayog
Updated : 3 years, 1 month ago IST
Subrahmanyam will replace Parameswaran Iyer who is appointed as Executive Director, World Bank Headquarters, Washington, USA.
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Covid-19 pandemic made 1.6m youth idle in Pakistan: World Bank report
Updated : 3 years, 1 month ago IST
The COVID-19 pandemic that gripped the world some three years ago has left millions of youth idle.
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Drivers of Dasu Power Project go on strike to demand payment of arrears
Updated : 3 years, 1 month ago IST
The drivers of rented vehicles didn't take foreigners to their respective working sites of the 4320 megawatts Dasu Hydropower Project which affected the work on the mega energy project being executed in the Upper Kohistan district with financial assistance from the World Bank and other lendi
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World Bank chief David Malpass decides to step down a year early
Updated : 3 years, 1 month ago IST
David Malpass was selected as 13th President of the World Bank Group by its Board of Executive Directors on April 5, 2019. His five-year term began on April 9.
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David Malpass to step down as World Bank President
Updated : 3 years, 1 month ago IST
Malpass will leave his position on June 30, the end of the World Bank's fiscal year, after serving more than four years in the role, said the World Bank.
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World Bank to provide USD 1.78 bn to earthquake-hit Turkey for relief and
Updated : 3 years, 1 month ago IST
The World Bank in a statement said that it has started a rapid damage assessment to estimate the magnitude of the disaster and identify priority areas for recovery and reconstruction support.
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China's huge investments in countries, a front for debt trap diplomacy: Re
Updated : 3 years, 1 month ago IST
China is making huge investments in underdeveloped or poor countries ultimately setting them up for defaulting on China's loans and making compromises to China
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Assam: State disaster management authority, PWD sign MoU for implementatio
Updated : 3 years, 1 month ago IST
The MoU was signed by Gyanendra Tripathi, Chief Executive Officer, ASDMA, and Raj Chakrabarty, Special Commissioner and Special Secretary, Public Works Department (Bldg. and NH), Government of Assam.
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Economic Survey: India's 2023-24 GDP growth in real terms projected at 6.5
Updated : 3 years, 1 month ago IST
The Economic Survey document said the growth projection is broadly comparable to the estimates provided by multilateral agencies such as the World Bank, the IMF, the Asian Development Bank and the Reserve Bank of India.
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Mission 2047: India's march to become third-largest economy
Updated : 3 years, 1 month ago IST
The World Bank's revision of Indian GDP growth projections from 6.4 per cent to 6.9 per cent in the current fiscal year is one among the many affirmations Indian policies and reforms have received in recent times.
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Pak's Karachi submerged in 2022 despite millions pumped by World Bank: Rep
Updated : 3 years, 2 months ago IST
Despite pouring millions of dollars into Pakistan, the country's biggest city, Karachi was submerged during the extreme flooding last year due to decades of neglect by the authorities to the Karachi's sewage and waste disposal systems that created the perfect recipe for flooding in the city,
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Only 3 per cent of World Bank's USD 100 million funding used to flood-proo
Updated : 3 years, 2 months ago IST
Less than three per cent of the World Bank's budget, which it gave as loans to the local Sindh government, has been spent, after three years.
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