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Rural India is seeing faster economic recovery than urban, this report shows why
Reverse migration expected to give a positive uptick.
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Telangana CM reviews flood situation, orders relief on war footing
Hyderabad, Aug 17 (IANS) Telangana Chief Minister K. Chandrashekhar Rao on Monday reviewed the rain…
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New York reports a record 15 cases of a rare disease linked to rat urine in 2021, as vermin complaints flood in
Rats have been terrorizing New Yorkers even more than usual this year. In 2021, New York has record…
Gabrielle Paluch
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If you feel that the world's environment is doomed after the raging summer of hurricanes, floods, and wildfires, you could be suffering from 'eco-anxiety'
A growing number of people have found that the rapidly declining state of the planet is impacting t…
Sophia Ankel
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A deluge of horny ads is about to flood America, as companies try to cash in on a country starved for physical contact
A year of pent-up demand is about to be released, as people finally do everything they could not in…
Kate Taylor
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Unknown facts about IAS officer Kannan Gopinathan
Schooling and becoming an IAS officer Kannan Gopinathan entered IAS as part of the 2012 batch AGM…
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Tropical Storm Isaias has strengthened into a hurricane, causing floods in the Caribbean and due to smack the US coast this weekend
Hurricane Isaias has already hit the Dominican Republic and caused flooding and blackouts in Puerto…
Sinéad Baker
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Urban Outfitters, Nike, and 9 other major retailers are temporarily closing its stores in an unprecedented move to prevent the spread of the coronavirus
Though companies like Walmart have taken steps to reduce hours, several major retailers are electin…
Bethany Biron
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A global sand shortage could cause damaging effects to our urban world
Second, governments and international institutions should develop global agreements to regulation s…
Greg Brown
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Here's what India can learn from the Thailand cave rescue
In either case, technology can be used for all the right reasons to get the job done. Equ…
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China has put 33 million people on lockdown because of the coronavirus outbreak. An urban planner says there's no way to seal off a city.
The virus, which scientists call 2019-nCoV, has killed 41 people and infected nearly 1,300. It has …
Aria Bendix,Aria Bendix
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Here's how Houston will get rid of Harvey's extreme flood water
"The more we build, the more dense developments get, and the more that we pave over, the natural dr…
Leanna Garfield
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Architects designed these floating villages that could withstand flooding in the San Francisco Bay Area
Designers from the three firms - Bjarke Ingels Group (BIG), One Architecture + Urbanism (ONE), and …
Leanna Garfield
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Houston is tackling the threat of destructive hurricanes and flooding - even though Trump ignores it
Clear Lake City (located around 20 miles southeast of downtown Houston) is transforming a shuttered…
Leanna Garfield
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Is Bengaluru prepared for a Chennai-like situation? Think again!
If reports from Karnataka State Natural Disaster Monitoring Centre are to be believed, Bengaluru ca…
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Why AMRUT can be a bigger game changer
Providing basic services (water supply, sewerage, urban transport) to households and building ame…
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Think twice before you say ‘no’ to offers in e-Commerce firms! Search firms might blacklist such people
According to estimates from four leading search firms, the offer dropout rates for the last three m…
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Why Urban Ladder has earned reputation among customers, and what rivals can learn from them
We will get to explaining how folks here have been able to do it, but before that here’s what the f…
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Why one region of the US will survive climate change better than any other, according to urban planners
One of the largest studies on the effects of heat waves took place in Chicago in the 1990s. That st…
Erin Brodwin
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Trump reversed regulations to protect infrastructure against flooding just days before Hurricane Harvey
Shana Udvardy, a climate preparedness specialist at the Union of Concerned Scientists, said it woul…