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UNDP Goodwill Ambassadors actor Antonio Banderas, tennis player Maria Sharapova and footballers Didier Drogba, Ronaldo and Zinedine Zidane, are among a group of celebrities who, from today, will be using their social media networks to support the United Nations push for action against extreme poverty, hunger and disease.
With only five years left unti....
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The Minister of Tribal Affairs, Shri Kanti Lal Bhuria has written to the Chief Ministers of the States which have not performed well regarding the implementation of the Scheduled Tribes and Other Traditional Forest Dwellers (Recognition of Forest Rights) Act,. These States include Assam, Bihar, Goa, Gujarat, Himachal Pradesh, Jharkhand, Karnataka, Kerala, Tamil Nadu, Uttrakhand....
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Panchkula: The leveling of false charges against a colleague using fictitious name has landed an executive engineer of Haryana power utility in trouble after CID traced the source of complaints.A large number of complaints were received against Kabul Singh, XEN (civil), from one Krishan Lal, a resident of House no. 351 sector 7 in Kurukshetra, alleging corruption and other malp....
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Adopt higher filling limits to avoid spillage from Bhakra, Pong & Ranjit Sagar D
Wed, 01-Sep-2010 07:59:29 am
Patiala: ‘The filling of reservoirs at Bhakra, pong and Ranjit Sagar Dam should be allowed to maximum possible to avoid spillage,” Padamjit Singh Chairman All India Power Engineers Federation has urged the BBMB and Punjab Government.According to the latest estimate of the Indian meteorological department, 15 % above average rainfall is expected for September 2010.&n....
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Go for Decentralised Renewable Energy (DRE) model for clean energy: Greenpeace
Thu, 02-Sep-2010 11:19:23 am
According to Karuna Raina, Campaigner, Greenpeace India, nuclear energy is dangerous and there is still no safe way of dealing with nuclear waste. Renewable energy is fast and safe and has already made a bigger contribution to our power sector than nuclear.It has been informed that Greenpeace is working in Bihar, one of the most backward states in the country, to highlight the ....
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New Delhi: Facing embarrassment after showing sharply different economic growth figures based on two different methodologies, the government has set the record straight on the pace of economic expansion.
Admitting its faus pax within a day, the government has revised the economic growth at market prices to 10.02 per cent for the quarter ending June 2010, from 3.65 per cent sta....
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Why can’t three trillion dollar economy India distribute foodgrains to its poor rather than let it be rotten?
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