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Covid-19 overhang to seriously cripple Next Gen leadership, warns Aarohan at Leadership seminar
November 24, 2022
Clear warning about the crippling impact of Covid-19 on the quality of the next generation of national leadership was one of the key takeaways of the 2nd National Summit on Leadership in Positivity & Awards 2022, that was recently organised by Movement of Positivity in New De...
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India’s Purnima Devi Barman among UNEP Champions of the Earth
November 23, 2022
The UN Environment Programme (UNEP) has named its 2022 Champions of the Earth, with five persons, including a conservationist, an enterprise, an economist, a women’s rights activist, and a wildlife biologist for their transformative action to prevent, halt and reverse ecosystem...
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Meghalaya’s matrilineal tribe Khasis offer lessons in gender parity
November 22, 2022
The 2022 Gender Gap Index, released by the World Economic Forum (WEF) puts India at 135th position of 146 nations. Women continue to face an uphill battle for rights and survival in most parts of India, suffering from widespread discrimination in terms of nutrition, education, ec...
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UNESCO Members commit to invest at least 10 pc of education budget on early childhood education
November 21, 2022
At a global meeting on education, hosted by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO) the critical importance of early education, notably kindergarten and pre-primary, was highlighted by global educationists and the UNESCO member nations commit...
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COP27 agreement on Loss & Damage Fund key for poor nations
November 20, 2022
At the end, it seemed like an encore. COP27, the climate change summit at Sharm El Sheikh, the Egyptian Red Sea resort town, was supposed to end on November 18. However, right from the opening plenary, the meeting was wracked by a deep divide between the rich and the poor countri...
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Global network of universities formed at COP27 to fight climate change
November 19, 2022
Former Minister of Environment of India, Prakash Javadekar and Erik Solheim former Minister of Environment of Norway, have jointly launched a global network of Universities for Carbon Neutrality that will sensitise the students and faculty to climate change and carbon emissions o...
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World’s first mass produced ceramic bowl reveals early culinary habits
November 19, 2022
A new research report published in The Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports tries to unveil the food habits that prevailed in the earliest urban societies of the humankind. The world’s first urban state societies developed in Mesopotamia, modern-day Iraq, about 5500 years...
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Forsyth Trail Run 2.0 by Moustache Escapes in January
November 18, 2022
Moustache Escapes, a leading experiential travel company, says it is all geared up for its Forsyth Trail Run 2.0 to be held on January 21-22 in the forests of Madhya Pradesh. The company says that the run is a perfect opportunity for athletes as well as fitness fanatics to expl...
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Indian students continue to struggle with Covid-19 disruption
November 15, 2022
Students around the world are still paying for the disruption to their education caused by the widespread closure of schools around the world as one country after another moved to prolonged lockdowns. In most countries, schools have reopened only in this academic year, after almo...
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Pushkar Mela hit by lumpy skin disease
November 14, 2022
Cattle trading is a key highlight of the colourful and vibrant fair Pushkar which is held annually in the holy month of Kartik in Pushkar town, in Rajasthan, around 150 km away from the state capital, Jaipur. The cattle fair is held on the dunes in Pushkar and to which dozens of ...
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Breakthrough agenda at COP27 to accelerate decarbonisation
November 12, 2022
Governments of representing over half of global GDP have reached agreement on a 12-month action plan to help make clean technologies cheaper and more accessible everywhere. They launched a package of 25 new collaborative actions to be delivered by COP28 to speed up the decarbonis...
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Eliminating hunger by 2030 need not be a lost cause
November 10, 2022
Findings in the latest report by Global Hunger Index on the situation of hunger worldwide should not have been a surprise most experts had been warning that hunger was becoming more widespread due to numerous factors like drop in harvests due to climate change, the Ukraine war an...
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