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
People
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Artificial organs
researchers at New York's Harvard University have successfully grown replacement skin, bladders and other body tissue in a technique that could open new doors to transplant surgery and
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Manipulating a patent
quinoa ( Chenopodium quinoa ) is a high protein food crop which is eaten by millions of people in Argentina, Bolivia, Peru and Ecuador. Now two us agronomists, Duane Johnson and Sarah
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Trash politics
chungli , an industrial city of 300,000 people in Taoyan county, about 60 km from capital Taipei, is witnessing a poli-tical war over garbage. : great wall of trash' has been rising up in the city
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Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action: The Fourth World Conference on Women
The Platform for Action is an agenda for women’s empowerment. It aims at accelerating the implementation of the Nairobi Forward-looking Strategies for the Advancement of Women and at removing all the obstacles
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The Employment of Manual Scavengers and Construction of Dry Latrines (Prohibition) Act, 1993
An Act to provide for the prohibition of employment of manual scavengers as well as construction or continuance of dry latrines and for the regulation of construction and maintenance of water-seal latrines
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Ministry of Tribal Affairs
The Ministry of Tribal Affairs was constituted in October 1999 with the objective of providing more focused attention on the integrated socio-economic development of the most under-privileged sections of the Indian society namely, the Scheduled Tribes (STs), in a coordinated and planned manner.
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Ministry of Human Resources Development
The Ministry of Human Resources Development of the Government of India came into being on September 1985, to provide a common platform for those relevant instruments and agencies which were contributing or responsible for the integrated development of citizens of India. The Ministry is divided into two departments namely: 1. Department of School Education and Literacy 2.
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Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment
The Ministry of Social Justice & Empowerment is entrusted with the welfare, social justice & empowerment of disadvantaged and marginalised section of the society viz, Scheduled Caste, Backward Classes, Persons with Disabilities, Aged Persons, and victims of Drug Abuse etc.
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National Commission for Schedule Castes
With a view to provide safeguards against the exploitation of SCs & STs and to promote and protect their social, educational, economic and cultural interests, special provisions were made in the Constitution.
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National Sample Survey Organisation
The National Sample Survey (NSS), initiated in the year 1950, is a nation-wide, large-scale, continuous survey operation conducted in the form of successive rounds. It was established on the basis of a proposal from P.C. Mahalanobis to fill up data gaps for socio-economic planning and policy making through sample surveys.