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Countries submit action plans to combat trade in elephant ivory
New York City :: NY :: USA | 2 days ago
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Standing Committee as a response to the dramatic rise in the number of elephants poached for their ivory. Monitoring Illegal Killing of Elephants, found that an estimated 17,000 elephants were illegally killed in 2011. Data for 2012 shows the
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Farmers? suicide rates soar above the rest
Mumbai :: India | 2 days ago
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Suicide rates among Indian farmers were a chilling 47 per cent higher than they were for the rest of the population in 2011. In some of the States worst hit by the agrarian crisis, they were well over 100 per cent higher. The new Census 2011 data
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Nigeria: Full Text of Jonathan's Declaration of Emergency
Gombe :: Nigeria | 5 days ago
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Dear compatriots, 1. It has become necessary for me to address you on the recent spate of terrorist activities and protracted security challenges in some parts of the country, particularly in Borno, Yobe, Adamawa, Gombe, Bauchi, Kano, Plateau and
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Rising farm wages will lift all boats
Mumbai :: India | 6 days ago
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However, the conclusions of the analysis could well be misleading and in other instances, be stating the obvious...Further, the legal agricultural minimum wages, used in the analysis, are not accurate reflections of the prevailing agricultural wages
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The lion is an Indian, not a Gujarati
Mumbai :: India | 13 days ago
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But, in a historic judgment lauded by the world conservation community, ( Centre for Environmental Law WWF-1 v. Union of India and others , Supreme Court, 2013) the Supreme Court has ruled that Gujarat has to part with some lions, to be shifted to
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Sales tax exemption for online sales could be ending
What would Internet commerce have been like if online buyers paid the same sales taxes that other retail purchasers do? We might be about to find out. The US Senate is expected to approve a bill Monday to make it easier
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Which TV Actor Played Soccer With Olly Murs?
London :: CA :: USA | 19 days ago
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Olly, who scored his big break on the UK's X Factor in 2009 as the runner-up in the reality competition's sixth season, recently told OK! he used to play football (that's soccer to you and me) with another Brit who has become popular here in the US. "
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State Budget Solutions: States need to focus on cutting spending, not Internet tax revenues
Alexandria :: VA :: USA | 20 days ago
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Williams added, "Lawmakers' focus on the hope of increased internet revenue is misplaced. States need to fix their spending problems now and stop hoping that the federal government will ride in like a knight in shining armor and fix all their
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Fish scarcity forces Kerala to look to neighbours for supplies
Kochi :: India | 27 days ago
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The Hindu Oil sardines up for sale at the Ernakulam fish market on Monday. There is a scarcity of Oil sardines, which is Kerala's favourite fish...Dwindling fish landings on the Kerala coast and spiralling demand have combined to force the State to
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Sex And The City prequel about the teenage Carrie Bradshaw's life is on the way to the UK
New York City :: NY :: USA | 1 month ago
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19 April 2013 Fans of Sex And The City will know all about the idiosyncrasies that made Carrie Bradshaw one of the quirkier female characters on TV. What they might not know is that before Mr Big and Manolo Blahniks came along, our bare-legged
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