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INTERVIEW - Children working in India's coal mines came as "complete shock", filmmaker says
2016-07-06 08:01:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: When Chandrasekhar Reddy travelled to northeastern India in 2011, the director was looking for material for a film on forests in the region famed for its misty hills and waterfalls. Instead, he found children as young as five working in coal mines. Horrified yet fascinated, Reddy stayed in Meghalaya state for several months, befriending the children and their families, and slowly gaining access to the mines, many of which are illegal. Reddy eventually gathered enough material for his first...
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Brexit fears hit India's textile exports
2016-07-06 04:35:37| BBC News | Business | UK Edition
What is the fallout from the EU referendum vote on India's textile industry? Yogita Limaye takes a look.
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How India's 'smart villages' are centralising solar power
2016-07-05 09:29:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
BBC: Image caption For the roughly 200 million Indians living off-grid, access to power is a privilege, not a right The Indian government has committed 980bn rupees ($14.5bn; 10.9bn) to a flagship smart cities' programme, but the social entrepreneur behind the country's first smart village thinks they've missed some low-hanging fruit. City-dwellers tend to take electricity for granted, says Ashok Das, but for the roughly 200 million Indians living off-grid, access to power is a privilege, not a...
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India's "unbanked" resist push for them to get accounts
2016-07-05 05:24:52| BBC News | Business | UK Edition
The Indian government is trying to get more people to hold basic bank accounts but their plan appears to be stumbling.
World Bank Group to finance $1bn for Indias solar growth
2016-07-05 01:00:00| Power Technology
The World Bank Group has signed an agreement with International Solar Alliance (ISA) to finance more than $1bn in support expansions of solar generation capacity.
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