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    Will the Move Towards a Cleaner, Sustainable Future Carry Along Coal Miners?

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    First Person: Seeing the Reality of Life in Occupied Palestine

    Visiting the West Bank with an international trade union delegation was inspiring and motivating to campaign and fight for justice for Palestinians. Everyone told...
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    Home Ministry Hosts High-Level Meeting to Review Preparedness for Flood Management

    Union home minister, Amit Shah, emphasised on the need to integrate weather, rainfall and flood warning related apps developed by various departments. Union home minister,...
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    Nearly Half the Global Population Feels Unable to Protect Themselves from Disasters

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    UN’s Development Goals: Rich Nations Lead While World’s Poor Lag Far Behind

    According to the ninth edition of the Sustainable Development Report released by the UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network, none of the seventeen Sustainable Development...
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    PM Releases Seventeenth PM-KISAN Instalment of Rs. 20,000 Crores

    The prime minister lauded the use of technology in taking the benefits to the deserved beneficiaries and also credited the Viksit Bharat Sankalp Yatra...
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    Volunteers go the Distance to Bring Water and Health to Remote Nepali Mountain Villages

    Aligned with the government’s “Ek dhara, ek ghar” campaign — which translates to “one house, one tap” — the Nepal Red Cross, IFRC, British...
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    E-governance

    Governance Reforms to Include Digital Empowerment of Citizens

    Union Minister Dr. Jitendra Singh says “Continuing the reforms and revamping training structures and methodologies to optimize the performance of government employees is our...
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    Kerala Gifts 1,200 Saplings to Boost Maldives’ Five Million Tree Drive

    Climate change remains an existential concern for the Maldives. Rising sea levels, coastal erosion and the need for greater green cover make large-scale tree planting both a practical and a symbolic necessity.
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    Kerala Gifts 1,200 Saplings to Boost Maldives’ Five Million Tree Drive

    Climate change remains an existential concern for the Maldives. Rising sea levels, coastal erosion and the need for greater green cover make large-scale tree planting both a practical and a symbolic necessity.
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