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At Rio+20 environmental summit, is 'catastrophe' inevitable?-Scott Baldauf

-The Christian Sciences Monitor Wealthy Western nations are financially exhausted and unwilling to commit to help fund greener development for poorer nations. Will this week's conference in Rio find any solutions? So what happens if you hold a UN conference on sustainable development, and world leaders make speeches, and sign treaties, and then nothing happens? This, of course, would be absurd. The problem, says Bill Easterly, a development expert at New York University,...

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Dipankar Mukherjee passes away

-The Hindu Renowned trade union leader Dipankar Mukherjee (69), who passed away on Monday morning, was a brilliant parliamentarian with versatile capabilities. Elected to the Rajya Sabha in April 1994 from West Bengal as a Communist Party of India (Marxist) member, Mr. Mukherjee played an important role in intervening in all crucial economic and industrial policy-related issues during his 12-year-long parliamentary stint till 2006. Born in June 1943 in Kolkata, Mr. Mukherjee had...

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PDS activist Ambika Dubey shot dead, daughter points finger at police-Mahim Pratap Singh

-The Hindu He stopped truck to expose denial of full quota of grain A magisterial inquiry has been ordered into the death of an activist fighting corruption in the PDS who, his daughter alleged, was shot dead by the police on Saturday in a village in Narsinghpur district in Madhya Pradesh. When Ambika Prasad Dubey (55), who had been working to bring out corruption and leakages in the Public Distribution System, and some...

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New UN report shows record 800,000 people became refugees in 2011

-The United Nations Ahead of World Refugee Day, the United Nations refugee agency reported today that a record 800,000 people were forced to flee across borders last year, more than at any time since 2000. The new refugees are part of a total of 4.3 million people who were newly displaced last year, owing to a string of major humanitarian crises that began in late 2010 in Côte d'Ivoire, and followed by...

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Sustainable forests key to meet development goals–UN report

-The United Nations The world's forests have a major role to play in the transition to a greener economy, but governments need to do more to ensure they are sustainably managed, according to a new report from the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), issued today. “Forests and trees on farms are a direct source of food, energy, and cash income for more than a billion of the world's poorest people,”...

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