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15.06.2006 Reliable information on water depletion for agricultural production is much needed when freshwater resources are getting scarcer. This is the case in the irrigated Indus basin.

15.06.2006 Poverty is subjective, complex, and multidimensional. While poverty is primarily about income, limited access to the necessary natural resources for agricultural production is a major constraint to poverty alleviation in the dry areas.

15.06.2006 The school has adopted a course management system called Moodle. There are more than 10,000 Moodle sites in 147 countries.

15.06.2006 A global campaign for disaster reduction education will be launched on 15 June at UNESCO (6 p.m., Room II), by the Inter-Agency Secretariat of the United Nations International Strategy for Disaster Reduction (ISDR), UNESCO and the French National Committee for the United Nations Decade of Education for Sustainable Development.

15.06.2006 The trial transmission of programmes for Radio Alakal, the first community radio for fisherfolk, commenced in 15 coastal villages on Monday, through a network of radio kiosks.

15.06.2006 Orissa today unveiled two e-governance roadmaps here to ascertain the present capacity and potential for improvements through information communication technology (ICT) intervention.

15.06.2006 In the first step towards e-Governance, the State government has launched its own indigenous special software called 'Office Procedure Automation Software', developed by the State’s Information and Communication Technology (ICT) cell.