Modi in Nepal: Offers $1 Billion Loan, says Hydel Project Pending …
International Business Times, India Edition
During his two day visit to Nepal, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday offered $1 billion loan to Nepal for infrastructural development and signed a deal clearing ways for a hydropower project, which was stalled for almost 18 years. … Both the …

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Sheep shearing course thanks to funding
South Wales Argus
The fund is part of the Rural Development Fund Partnership in Caerphilly and is run on behalf of the partnership by the Coalfields Regeneration Trust. Michelle Rowson-Woods, who works with the CRT, said “The training support fund has been a fantastic …

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Markets Live: RBA holds rates steady
Sydney Morning Herald
11:54am: Australia's seasonally-adjusted trade deficit narrowed by $320 million, to $1.7 billion, in June as lower imports and higher rural exports and volumes helped offset soft prices for iron ore and other minerals. The Australian Bureau of … The …

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'Democracy is Not Just About Elections'
The New Indian Express
Balasubramaniam, a former member of Anna Hazare's Anti-Corruption Movement, was delivering a lecture on 'Making democracy work', at the Rajiv Gandhi National Institute of Youth Development on its Sriperumbudur campus on Monday. “Democracy is not only …

Why Ebola is hitting people in Africa hard
BBC News
Most medical innovation is left to the private sector, which is profit-driven, they write, while aid organisations devoted to public health devote little of their budgets to research and development. Government funding for diseases like Ebola are …
Ebola: The disease is not the real problemDaily Maverick

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Yes, planning policy is the cause of the housing crisis
The Economist (blog)
TODAY'S FT has an interesting letter from Shaun Spiers, the director of the Campaign to Protect Rural England (CPRE), a pressure group which campaigns against development in England's countryside. Missives from the CPRE are not normally worth paying …

Keeping safe in Ebola territory
PBS NewsHour
International development banks are assembling aid packages for the affected countries, Sierra Leone, Liberia and Guinea. … It is fairly rural. It is in what they call the forest region in Gueckedou in Guinea. But it's been — the area around it has …

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My Journey From Christian College to Drag
Huffington Post
The one thing about a journey is that while you may have a certain destination in mind, providence has a way of stepping in and setting you on a course you never imagined. Take Dorothy: I'm almost certain she never … Alas, when I packed up my Buick …

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Tidal power company seeks support for Washington County venture
Press Herald
Halcyon is also trying to attract $5 million in private capital to cover initial development costs in Maine and a larger proposed project in Nova Scotia. But like any new energy projects, these ventures have been greeted with some skepticism and …

Conservationists need to get out of the woods — and serious about …
Grist
My wife was in school and pregnant with our second child, and I'd enrolled in evening paramedic classes at a community college in West Baltimore, a place that was a total wilderness to me. …. But I have to wonder how long Americans will support …

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