COVID-19 Global Gender Response Tracker
<p>Most of the world’s nations are not doing enough to protect women and girls from the economic and social fallout being caused by the COVID-19 crisis, according to new data released today by UNDP
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Call for more tigers in natural habitat
Bangladesh along with other 12 countries celebrated Global Tiger Day on Friday with a call for an increase in the number of tigers in their natural habitat. Bangladesh, India, Indonesia, China, Bhutan,
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Bengal Tigers in danger
The number of recent recoveries of tiger skin and bones in and around the Sundarbans apparently dooms the government initiatives to save the Bengal Tigers and their habitat. Experts say though the government
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65% Himalayan glaciers melting: Scientists
In a startling comparison between the state of glaciers in the Himalayan ranges in the last 50 years, glaciologists say nearly 65 per cent glaciers are melting due to global warming.
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Disaster casualty rate down in Bangladesh
Bangladesh should go for calculating disaster losses so that it could make prior investments to reduce peoples' vulnerabilities and economic losses caused by disasters, experts said yesterday. While casualty rate from disasters came down in Bangladesh and elsewhere, financial loses from a large proportion of damage to local infrastructure, housing has increased which seriously threatens the eco
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$26 billion needed to cope with climate change effects on energy sector
The United Nations Development Programme has estimated that Bangladesh
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Mantra of cash transfers
<p>What is it that makes our policymakers see “cash transfers” as a magic wand? (Editorial)<br /> </p>
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UNDP sanctions mangrove conservation project in Godavari estuary in Andhra
One more biodiversity project at Sindhudurg in Malvan, Maharastra RAMANATHAPURAM: The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) has sanctioned a community-based natural resource management and mangrove conservation project in Godavari estuary, Andhra Pradesh, similar to the Gulf of Mannar Marine Conservation Project in Tamil Nadu. Speaking to The Hindu, Doley Tshering, Regional Technical Spe
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Integrated land and ecosystem management project
The Integrated Land and Ecosystem Management Project is being implemented by the Forest Department in Madhya Pradesh with the cooperation of Global Environmental Facility. The project is being implemented in nine forest divisions of Betul, Chhindwara, Umaria, Sidhi and Singrauli districts. The five-year project will be implemented till the year 2014. Its total cost is Rs.
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UP ranks third with 44 lakh slum dwellers
United Nation Development Programme's India Urban Poverty Report, 2009 has pegged the number of slum dwellers in Uttar Pradesh at 44 lakh.
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At least One million affected by floods
The worst ever floods in a century, have affected more than one million people or one-twentieth of the population, according to latest statistics released by the Disaster Management Centre last afternoon.