Global Gender Gap Report 2024
<p>The Global Gender Gap Index annually benchmarks the current state and evolution of gender parity across four key dimensions (Economic Participation and Opportunity, Educational Attainment, Health and
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EU Climate Chief Confronts Riddle Of Deeper CO2 Cut
The European Union can still deepen planned cuts to greenhouse gases beyond 20 percent, but the task is complex and has not been helped by controversy over nuclear power, the EU's climate chief said on Wednesday. Climate Commissioner Connie Hedegaard is planning to reveal new research in July on the costs and benefits of deepening carbon emissions cuts to 30 percent by the end of this decade, f
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No E. coli in India, thanks to cow dung
If there has been no outbreak of E.
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Beyond antibiotics: A new way to fight superbugs
<p><style type="text/css">p { margin-bottom: 0.08in; }</style> <p><font size="3" style="font-size: 13pt;"><i>German E. coli deaths show it's time to look past the wonder drugs of the 1950s in the battle against lethal bacteria.<br /> http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg21028163.600-beyond-antibiotics-a-new-way-to-fight-superbugs.html?full=true&print=true<br /> </i></font></p> </p>
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Germany helpless, E coli toll 30
The death toll from the outbreak of E coli in Germany rose to 30 on Thursday as the Government admitted its failure in dealing with the worst bacterial epidemic in six decades. A 57-year-old man became the latest victim who travelled with his wife to the Northern city of Hamburg, an epicentre of the outbreak, authorities said. The Ministers also admitted failures in their crisis management a
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Hyderabad to decode E. coli strain
Even as top German scientists are baffled at the behaviour of the new strain of E.
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MHS Energy formsventure with German firm
MHS Energy, a Chennai-based infrastructure company that offers technology for low maintenance outdoor power solution mainly for the telecom tower infrastructure, has entered into a joint venture with the German-based b+w Electronics Systems to provide technology and R&D support to manufacture solar power solutions for telecom tower infrastructure. Addressing a press conference here on Thursday,
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Germany Is Criticized Even as E. Coli Outbreak Slows
The German government came under increased criticism on Tuesday at home and abroad, accused of mismanaging the crisis surrounding an E. coli outbreak that has killed more than 20 people. German officials, however, reported a slight fall in the rate of newly reported infections.
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EU Offers 150m to Farmers Hit by Killer E. Coli
The European Commission said Tuesday it will ask EU states to release 150 million euros in aid to European vegetable producers whose sales have been decimated by a deadly bacteria outbreak. European agriculture commissioner Dacian Ciolos also urged German authorities to quickly find the source of the lethal strain of E.
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Germany urgedto track down E. coli source
The European Commission said on Tuesday it would ask EU states to release
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German Cabinet Backs Nuclear Exodus By 2022
Germany's planned exit from nuclear power received backing from the cabinet on Monday, the economy and environment ministers said in Berlin. The far-reaching energy strategy, spurred by the crisis in Japan, reverses longer life cycles granted to nuclear power stations only last autumn. It will entail changes to power grid expansion plans and the subsidy system for renewable energy such as so