Are South Asian countries ready to meet the targets of SDGs by 2030?
By Selim Raihan The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) of the United Nations are basically a set of 17 goals with 169 targets. Given the wide coverage […]
Sustainable Development Goals
BRICS well placed to help eradicate poverty: UN official
United Nation : The BRICS countries are well positioned to take a leading role in helping achieve the ambitious Sustainable Development Goals as well as […]
Of a frictionless development : Ports have the potential to endanger the environment
By KANCHI KOHLI AND MANJU MENON New Delhi : Sagarmala is a flagship programme of the Government of India. Its contours were laid out in the April 2016 […]
India, Sweden to further use of renewables to fight climate change
NEW DELHI: Sweden, one of the top 20 investors in India, is keen to partner Delhi to further the goal of use of renewables to […]
India needs to triple investment in agricultural research: IFPRI
NEW DELHI : India needs to double or triple its investment in agricultural research if it has to reach to anywhere close to what China has […]
Sustainable Development Goals: Strengthening rural-urban linkages is the key for India
New Delhi : The world is rapidly urbanising. Currently, more than half of the world’s population lives in urban areas, and by 2050, as much […]
630 million people in India, SE Asia using water from faeces-contaminated sources: WHO
Around 630 million people in southeast Asian countries, including India, use a faeces-contaminated drinking water source, the WHO said on Friday. Worldwide, the global health […]
India 131st Of 188 Countries On The Human Development Index, Even Worse For Gender Inequality
India ranks 131st out of 188 countries on the United Nations Development Programme’s new Human Development rankings for 2015. This puts India in the “medium […]
The new health policy can help India achieve universal coverage
The World Health Organization (WHO) was established in 1948 with the promise of realising ‘Health for all’. Almost seven decades later, both WHO and India […]