World migration report 2024
The International Organization for Migration (IOM) launched the World Migration Report 2024, which reveals significant shifts in global migration patterns, including a record number of displaced people
Women
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Annual report 2004-2005: Mineral Foundation of Goa
The Mineral Foundation of Goa aims to: address environmental and social issues concerning the communities in the mining belt of Goa through formulation and implementation of developmental programmes; contribute to economic and social development of the local communities by training and capacity building; to facilitate tripartite partnership amongst industry, government and civil society for ensuring sustainable livelihood and mining; to chanellise the efforts underway and to pool together activities to improve the environment; to revive participatory approach in agriculture, livestock and fore
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Pesticide use and breast cancer risk among farmers’ wives in the agricultural health study
The authors examined the association between pesticide use and breast cancer incidence among farmers’ wives in a large prospective cohort study in Iowa and North Carolina. Participants were 30,454 women
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In Short
US appeals: The US has formally appealed against a World Trade Organization (WTO) ruling that subsidies paid to US cotton farmers are against the rules of global trade. WTO's decision on the US
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Self-help starters
A women development programme is changing the face of Rajasthan's countryside Something unique is being done in the countryside of Rajasthan, in the self-help groups (shgs) formed in the villages. Following keen interest shown in the matter by chief minister Vasundhera Raje, poor women who live in abject poverty in the state will get a new lease of life.
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Women s rule
Should be extended, suggests panchayati raj meet
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Burn baby burn
The use of Agent Orange during the Vietnam war maimed US soldiers as well. A first hand account
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Sugar coated menace
Researchers link aerated drinks to diabetes in women
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The battle of the Indian bulge - I
In Nagpur city, women gather outside a court. In broad daylight they lynch a local serial rapist. When four women are arrested, few hundred women own up to the crime. They say they killed Akku Yadav
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Bytes
the good dose: As per a study by the US-based National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, a combination of three drugs
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Running the show
Women effect a remarkable change in two districts of backward Bundelkhand