The World Bank has issued the world's first Wildlife Conservation Bond (WCB) or the "rhino bond", raising $150 million to help efforts to increase the endangered black rhino population in South Africa, the bank said in a statement on Thursday.
An in-principle approval letter has been issued to Maharashtra for an amount of Rs.600 crore for reviving and upgrading various ITIs/ polytechnics under the SIDBI Cluster Development Fund (SCDF).