India has become remarkably good at moving things across distance. Money moves instantly through UPI. Groceries arrive at doorsteps in minutes. Government benefits reach villages digitally. Yet, there is surprisingly one simple thing that still struggles to reach millions of Indians: a basic pair of glasses. As more Indians enter their late 30s, presbyopia — […]
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There is a need for a vibrant ecosystem of key players and doers for us to gain ground in the fight against extreme poverty.
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AI-related skills like machine learning are on the rise, and India is at a great advantage as it has the highest AI skills penetration in the world presently, as per LinkedIn’s data.
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Heavy rains across north India over the last week have lifted water levels in reservoirs in Punjab and Himachal Pradesh, according to the Central Water Commission. Scanty rains in the first part of the monsoon season, however, have impacted water levels in the reservoirs of western and south India, it said.
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Reducing or eliminating extreme poverty worldwide is a critical strategy, encompassed in the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goal #1: “End poverty in all its forms everywhere.” The extremely poor or ultra-poor have significant differences from the poor, contrary to popular representations of an undifferentiated mass of the ‘poor’ at the base of the pyramid.
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Till three years ago. Meena Birbor, a protected tribal woman in ber mid-40s from a village In Gumia, wo- uld often migrate to Tripura for six months annually with her husband to work in a brick klin to sustain her family of eight
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