This latest World Bank document stresses on the inclusion of ecosystem-based approaches to national and regional adaptation strategies. It points out that access to funds will help communities to address climate change at all levels.

This study focuses on people who moved out of poverty during the decade from 1995 to 2005 in rural areas of four Indian states: Andhra Pradesh, Assam, Uttar Pradesh, and West Bengal. It also considers people who have fallen into poverty, those who have remained poor, and some who have never been poor but who live alongside poor people in the same communities.

The public sphere as conceptualised by Habermas is a bourgeois institution that had emerged in European countries as a "discursive platform" to engage in critical discussion and deliberations with the idea of delivering "common good". The institution has been replicated in many countries including India.

It is presumed that remarkable increases in cotton productivity in India have come about through bacillus thuringiensis cotton and that this approach therefore must be replicated in other crops.

The consortium led by GMR Infrastructure Ltd has won the 181 km Hyderabad

May 27: Five children from Bholakpur and its surrounding slums are suffering from diarrohea. One case of jaundice, one heart and three kidney disorder cases have also been identified in the last two days.

May 27: APGenco, the state-owned power generation utility, saved nearly Rs 1,000 crore by persuading the Singareni Collieries, another public limited company, to provide it with more coal. Earlier, APGenco, the third biggest power producer in the country, used to buy imported coal from private companies at huge prices.

May 27: The developing port town of Kakinada is headed for an ecological disaster. It

MUMBAI: Climate change may hit the sugar industry in the state with sugarcane crop yields being reduced by up to 30% in the future with long-term socio-economic implications for many farmers.

This was revealed after a four-year study conducted by the World Bank in Maharashtra, Andhra Pradesh and Orissa that predicted drops in agricultural yields.

Aarti Dhar
NEW DELHI: A new World Bank report has said India can further its climate resilience through a combination of measures and right incentives aimed at multiple levels of government

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