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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UNITED NATIONS
The first comprehensive report on the World Health Organization's vaccination programmes, State of the World's Vaccines and Immuni sation , reveals that under the expanded programme on
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FOOD AID
The World Food Programme (WFP) will supply 137,000 metric tonnes (t) of wheat and 3,140 t of vegetable oil to Bangladesh to supplement the government's Vulnerable Groups Development Project. The
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Gandhi and the environment
Gandhiji's environmentalism was based on the following ethical principles: non-violence, truth and persevering the truth; shunning the use of materials obtained by illegitimate means and so on. Gandhiji
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Die Gr nen
The Greens. Forebears of the present German Green party. What has happened to their ideals? Why is the party viewed just as a somnolent giant today? <font class='UCASE'>saral sarkar</font> examines
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In the fast track
Women athletes are now in a position to give their male counterparts a run for their position. Endurance based sports already find women in a commanding position
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Nets but no strings
An informal banking scheme designed to assist the fisherwomen of Kerala has gained momentum within its short period of operation
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Menace at work
Workplaces are great. They give you money, satisfaction and a sense of belongingness. But some of them in China are giving their workers considerable nightmares. About 230,000 workers, mostly
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Watch your waistline
Hormone replacement therapy after menopause could lower the risk of getting heart diseases, advocates' a new study
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INDIA
• The Indian Oil Corporation will be penalised by the Calcutta Port Trust for the oil spill at Haldia barge jetty on May 30-31. The port authorities said that the incident was not an
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Citywards ho!
Out of more than half the world population that are wannabe urban Bourbons, larger number of women and children will have to rough it out