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January 26, 2021 Over the past few years, India has often been tagged as one of the fastest growing world economies, a scenario that looks even brighter when pitted against the global economic slowdown. Union Minister for Finance and Corporate Affairs, Nirmala Sitharaman, arrives at the Parliament House to present the General Budget 2020-21, in New Delhi on February 1, 2020 with Anurag Singh Thakur, Minister of State for Finance and Corporate Affairs. Photo: courtesy mea.gov.in via Consulate of...

Share this article Share this article TULSA, Okla., Jan. 26, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- Platt College-Tulsa, located at  3801 S. Sheridan Rd, is proud to announce that eight students in the colleges most recent two graduating classes of its Practical Nursing program have passed the Oklahoma State licensing exam on their first attempt and are now Licensed Practical Nurses (LPN), providing them access to a new career in the Healthcare Industry. Five graduates of the Platt College-Tulsa Practical Nu...

Nearly 5 per cent of Indias total Union Budget 2020-21 would be spent on schemes that benefit women, stated the gender budget for the year. Amounting to Rs 1.4 lakh crore ($19 billion) in 2020-21, the gender budget includes allocations made by different ministries for schemes that fully or partially benefit women. Gender-responsive budgeting, along with supportive laws and other policy measures, could help governments track whether public funds are effectively allocated in furthering gender e...

Hurdle Raises $5 Million Series Seed to Accelerate Expansion of its Mental Health Platform with Special Focus on the Black Community Hurdle provides an innovative teletherapy solution for employers and insurers; aims to remove barriers to mental health care for People of Color by rooting its services in evidence-based methods of cultural humility News provided by Share this article Share this article WASHINGTON, Jan. 25, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- Hurdle, an innovative digital mental health platform...

EU and UNDP launch two-year project to address urgent adaptation financing gaps in Africa Format 25 Jan 2021 The EU-financed project will be implemented by UNDP, in partnership with the Africa Adaptation Initiative and the African Union Commission, to enhance knowledge and evidence to scale-up climate change adaptation action in Africa 25 January 2021 – The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), European Union (EU) and partners of the Africa Adaptation Initiative (AAI) joined government...

Trump v. New York, the court failed to give a definitive ruling on it, saying the case was "riddled with contingencies and speculation that impede judicial review." The day the case was argued before the court in late November, Bishop Dorsonville said: "Denying the undocumented and the states in which they reside their rightful representation in Congress is counter to the Constitution and makes people feel invisible and not valued as human beings." The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, alon...

Activists and supporters block the street outside the U.S. Supreme Court in Washington Oct. 8, 2019, as it hears arguments in three major employment discrimination cases on whether federal civil rights law prohibiting workplace discrimination on the "basis of sex" covers gay and transgender employees. (CNS photo/Jonathan Ernst, Reuters) Jan. 26, 2021 Catholic News Service WASHINGTON -- President Joe Bidens wide-ranging executive order to extend existing federal nondiscrimination protections...

Inside Bloomberg’s Covid Resilience Ranking By January 25, 2021 (Bloomberg) -- Everyone is fighting the same coronavirus, but about a year into the pandemic, quality of life and control of the pathogen’s spread look vastly different across the world. Bloomberg’s Covid Resilience Ranking scores the largest 53 economies on their success at containing the virus with the least amount of social and economic disruption. We considered many datasets, indicators and indexes produced by or...

Indiana, PA / WDAD AM1450 & 100.3FM Jan 23, 2021 6:49 AM An IUP faculty member was honored with an award by a national advising organization this past week. The university reports that Kalani Palmer, a Human Development and Family Science Program faculty member, was awarded for her excellence in academic advising by NACADA, or the National Academic Advising Association, which covers the region of higher education institutions in Delaware, District of Columbia, Maryland, New Jersey, Pennsylvania...

As COVID-19 Raged, the Shadow Pandemic of Domestic Violence Swept Across the Globe Restrictions on mobility and loss of economic opportunities necessitated by the COVID-19 lockdowns have resulted in a significant rise in domestic violence cases across the world. India saw a 100% jump in the number of victims seeking help during the lockdowns. Illustration: Pariplab Chakraborty Women23/Jan/2021 The Human Development Report 2020 (HDR 2020) was launched in December. It is useful for tracking the...