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New Delhi: India currently has 1% of the total volume of vehicles around the world, but accounts for as much as 11 per cent of global road accidents, according to the World Bank. There are 4.5 lakh road crashes in the country per year, in…

New Delhi: The central government signed a $500 million Strengthening Teaching-Learning and Results for States Programme (STARS) with the World Bank on Friday to improve school education quality and governance in six states, including…

New Delhi: The World Bank (WB) has projected India’s economic growth to fall by 3.2 % in the 2020-21 fiscal year due to the lockdown to contain the spread of COVID-19. “In India, growth is estimated to have slowed to 4.2% in the fiscal…