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Soil health has suffered a lot over the years because of rampant agriculture. In fact, Maria Helena Semedo, a deputy director at the UN’s Food and Agriculture Organization had commented that the world’s topsoil had become so degraded that it could only support another 60 harvests, in 2015. Extreme reliability on chemicals, deforestation, monoculture, and...

Cotton accounts for 40% of all the raw materials used by the global textile industry. The material is an essential part of the global economy which is impossible to replace at the moment, owing to its comfort, durability and recyclability. The cotton industry is also responsible for providing a livelihood to millions of people...

महाराष्ट्र के मुख्यमंत्री देवेंद्र फडणवीस के बंगले को बीएमसी ने डिफॉल्टर घोषित किया है, सीएम के आधिकारिक निवास वर्षा बंगले को बीएमसी पानी सप्लाई कराती है, लेकिन महाराष्ट्र के मुख्यमंत्री देवेंद्र फडणवीस ने अरसे से पानी का बिल नही चुकाया है और यही कारण है कि बीएमसी ने सीएम के निवास को डिफॉल्टर घोषित...

HCL Foundation, under their Urban CSR Program ‘HCL Uday’, announced the launch of Discovery Science Centre in Lucknow. The Discovery Science Centre is a space for students to creatively learn, experience and understand various scientific concepts through experiential learning method. The set-up of the Science Centre is such that it provides students an opportunity to...

Bureaucrats are generally criticized in mainstream media but these new age bureaucrats are changing the image of the whole class. Every other day you get to know an inspirational story of how they are making way against the odds. We should celebrate these heroes because the celebration is the least they deserve. Chhattisgarh is infamous...

In March 2010, the UN General Assembly proclaimed the decade between 2011-2020 as the Decade of Road Safety. As a part of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) that India is a signatory to, it was decided that nations will take all possible action to bring down road accident deaths and injuries by 50% before...

Kenya’s banking industry invested 2.1 billion shillings ($19 million) in Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) in 2018 and approximately 6.7 billion shillings ($59 million) over the past three years, according to the 2019 Kenya Banking Industry shared value report released on Thursday by the Kenya Bankers Association (KBA).Education ranks first as the top social investment...

More than 100 children lost their lives in Muzaffarpur district of Bihar because of the Acute Encephalitis Syndrome (AES) outbreak. AES, more commonly referred to as ‘Brain fever’, has been triggered by the consumption of litchis on an empty stomach at night. While the luscious fruit has triggered the disease in the state, it isn’t...

The new Director General of FAO (Food and Agriculture Organization) will be elected at the United Nations in a few days’ time. The Slow Food International Council, which has just held its annual meeting in Chiusi (Italy) to draw up its political strategies for the years to come, hopes that the new appointment will clearly...

Human rights have seen the worst of times in Asia, especially in recent years according to a report by the United Nations Declaration on Human right defenders. The biennial report, titled Defending In Numbers, by the Asian Forum for Human Rights and Development (FORUM‐ASIA), documented 688 cases of violations and abuses affecting 4,854 people — including...

Excessive use of antibiotics in healthcare has led to a rise in antimicrobial resistance across the world. According to WHO, Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR) occurs when microorganisms such as bacteria, viruses, fungi and parasites change in ways that render the medications used to cure the infections they cause ineffective. When the microorganisms become resistant to most antimicrobials they are...

The future of the female workforce is at risk of unemployment because of various developments in the technological sector. In order to ensure that the women are not left behind when the country is progressing because of technology and they can actually benefit from the opportunities arising because of the economic development, governments, companies,...