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  Top 10 quotes of PM Modi at UN summit

  World | September 26, 2015 10:39 IST

  New York: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday made a strong pitch for reforms in the UN security council while addressing the United Nations Sustainable Development Summit.The prime minister's 18-minute Hindi speech, in which he

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  UN goals to focus on quality education for children: Unicef

  World | September 22, 2015 10:36 IST

  United Nations: With more than 200 million children unable to read and write globally, the UN's new Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) will focus on access to quality education, the executive director of Unicef has said."There

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  Sustainable practices are the need today: Environment Minister

  India | January 10, 2015 11:05 IST

  Gurgaon: Environment, Forests and Climate Change Minister Prakash Javadekar Friday said sustainable practices were the need of 21st century, as he inaugurated the Prakrit school that seeks to focus on sustainable learning and living practices

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  Home Minister calls for eco-friendly development as "natural disasters" hit India

  India | July 31, 2014 19:43 IST

  New Delhi: Negligence for balance between environment and development is proving tremendously fatal for human kind. Especially in India, there has been a sudden increase in the natural disasters in the last few days causing

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  Utilise natural resources, says Narendra Modi on World Environment Day

  Politics | June 05, 2014 12:22 IST

  New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi Thursday urged people to utilise the natural resources and said that the government's effort and people's participation can help bring about a cleaner and greener planet."Lets serve as trustees,

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  Karnataka framing policy on sustainable development

  India | September 27, 2013 7:10 IST

  Bangalore: Karnataka is formulating a new policy to address sustainability issues and challenges in consultation with industry, a minister said Thursday."The key challenge is to strike a balance between development and sustainable use of natural

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  Sustainable development fundamental right of people: SC

  India | April 19, 2013 19:31 IST

  New Delhi, Apr 19: Sustainable development is an integral part of fundamental rights conferred on citizens by the Constitution and cannot be allowed to be hampered by environmental degradation, the Supreme Court has said.“Inter-generational equity

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  G-20 will produce plan for global growth

  World | June 19, 2012 15:43 IST

  Mexico, Jun 19:  The leaders of the world's largest economies will portray themselves on Tuesday as united behind efforts to boost growth and job creation in order to repair a fragile global economy roiled by