Anil Kumar

Green budgeting is fast evolving as a concept and gaining considerable attention. It is emerging as the third pillar in budgeting, in addition to child and gender budgeting, which is already in place to some extent. Green budgeting is not a…
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Shirley Mandel Satterfield’s “The Assorted Christian” is a collection of 33 poems penned by her.  Acknowledging reluctantly that she is terminally human, as she struggles daily with the sins of the flesh and the sins of the spirit, the…
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Shirley Mandel Satterfield’s book The Shadowy World of the Poor: Memories of My Friends at the Rescue Mission narrates the invisible place in plain sight where the poorest of the poor from diverse backgrounds live. It is a memoir about the…
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Global pandemic COVID-19 is fast turning out to be a hunger virus, deepening the food crisis in the world’s hunger hotspots. It is creating new epicentres of hunger across the globe, and as per the report published by Oxfam, 12,000 people…
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A significant and game-changing innovation is going to boil down the immense desperation among the coconut farmers, especially in Kerala. The Kerala-based startup, NAVA Design and Innovation, has developed a device for mechanised extraction…
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Global pharma major Gilead is to donate 1.5 million doses of its experimental anti-coronavirus drug remdesivir, which could treat 140,000 patients. Daniel O’Day , Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Gilead Sciences Inc., said in an…
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A woman dressed in Saree, which is traditional attire, and running for a cause may sound odd for these times. However, breaking stereotypes, reviving craft and creating environment awareness, the Pardada Pardadi Educational Society…
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Civil Society Organisations (CSOs) have raised concerns about the proposed US--India Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) on Intellectual Property Rights (IPRs) for the exchange of knowledge and training of officials working in offices…
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Globally, another 2.5 billion people are expected to live in urban areas by 2050, and 90 per cent of this increase will take place in Asia and Africa. This will intensify the pressure for creating adequate city infrastructure and…
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Congress MP, TN Prathapan writes Prime Minister Narendra Modi seeking his urgent intervention to ensure access to medicines for the treatment of drug-resistant TB. He has cited the WHO’s Global TB Report of 2018, which stated that India…
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