Content
Inside Volume 5, Issue 12
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Pin Point Newscan
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City Image Urban Agenda
April 2020
EVENT
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Cover Story
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Cities in time of Corona Cities have donned a novel appearance that none of us has ever seen. We wish we need not see it ever again. COVID-19 has claimed over 150, 000 lives, infected over 2,200,000 people, and affected almost everyone on the planet in one way or the other. Cities may be the worst affected but our urban institutions are also giving a glimmer of hope to humanity in this fight against COVID-19
Articles
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A history of pandemics & shape of human history
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Nature gets some breathing space, but for how long?
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Economics of health; health of economies
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Fake news: The Digital Pandemic
Cities assure to accelerate efforts to achieve SDGs at 5th SAC Summit ‘Gender equality should be the top priority of cities’
Leaderspeak
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Scaling up innovation in sanitation to mitigate risks from pandemics like COVID-19 AIILSG stands with the nation and urban local bodies in particular in the time of coronavirus pandemic. Our institute is committed to extending all kind of support to our municipalities in this fight. Sanitation has been the prime focus for our institute since its inception. This COVID 19 pandemic has compelled us to rethink our community sanitation standards and redesign our curriculum for sanitation workers
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