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Asia Society to honour PepsiCo CEO Indra Nooyi as Game Changer of the YearThe awards are given to individuals, institutions who have broken barriers, defined courage, worked miracles.- Dev Patel selected for Asia Game Changers award along with Aga KhanThe awards recognise those making a transformative and positive difference for the future of Asia and the world.
- Chanda Kochhar among three Indians get Asia Game Changer awardsIndian-American actor Aasif Mandvi, 49, and designer Kiran Bir Sethi, 49, also made it to the list besides Kochhar, 53.
- Bangalore, Chennai join '100 Resilient Cities' networkThe two Indian cities were chosen among 331 applications from cities around the world for 100RC network, pioneered by the Rockefeller Found...
- WFP runs out of money; food aid to poor may be affected: UNThe United Nations has said it expects to register a "dangerous and unprecedented" shortfall in budgetary allocations for its World Food Pr...
- Food crisis: Get priorities rightThe financial crisis through its many-sided impacts is adding to the number of people affected by chronic hunger.
- Financial crisis pushing hungry to wall, WFP saysEconomic crisis is pushing the world's hungriest people to the wall, but a fraction of the cost of financial rescue packages could make a h...
- Giving poor people money to purchase food might bring about food aid revolutionThe world might soon see a revolution in food aid, with rich nations preferring to give money to the people in poor countries to purchase f...
- World Bank president urges countries not to ban food exportsThe president of the WB called on developed nations to not impose export restrictions or tariffs on food that could be funneled to relief a...
- World Bank president urges countries not to ban food exportsThe president of the World Bank called on Thursday for governments of developed nations to not impose export restrictions or tariffs on foo...
- UN meets on food crisisUN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon on Monday held talks with key development agencies on how to tackle the crisis provoked by soaring food an...
- Food crisis: UN to reveal battle planUnited Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon was set on Monday to lead a concerted effort by 27 key UN agencies to tackle the growing crisi...
- India, China pushing up food prices: UNThe United Nations food agency has sounded a fresh alarm that fast rising food prices across the globe are eroding its capacity to serve mi...
- World Food Program appeals for $ 100 mn to fight hungerThe World Food Program appealed for hundreds of millions of dollars (euros) to cope with rising food prices that have sparked protests and ...
- UN food prog warns of eroding capacity to serve as prices soarThe United Nations food agency has sounded a fresh alarm that fast rising food prices across the globe are eroding its capacity to serve mi...
- UN officials express concerns over soaring food pricesTop United Nations officials have expressed concern over soaring food prices which are making basic staples out of the reach of poor and ca...
- Food and fuel price hikes hit Africans hardThe head of the United Nations World Food Program said that international price increases have created more hungry people worldwide than ev...
- Barrymore donates $1mn to anti-hunger programmeDrew Barrymore announced that she would donate $1 million to the United Nations World Food Programme to help the agency feed thousands of K...
- UN agency airdrops food for cyclone-hit BangladeshisThe United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) is teaming up with Bangladesh Air Force to airdrop emergency food supplies to thousands of pe...
- Internet game raises one billion grain for UNWFP in 30 daysAn Internet game in which a website donates 10 grains of rice to the United Nations World Food Programme for every vocabulary question answ...
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