Human development report 2023/2024
After a drop in its Human Development Index (HDI) value in 2021 and following a flat trend over the past few years, India’s HDI value has increased to 0.644 in 2022, placing the country 134 out of 193
After a drop in its Human Development Index (HDI) value in 2021 and following a flat trend over the past few years, India’s HDI value has increased to 0.644 in 2022, placing the country 134 out of 193
The Punjab Government today moved the Supreme Court seeking a review of its June 4 judgment directing construction of the remaining portion of the Sutlej-Yamuna Link (SYL) canal in the State. In a
NGOs have expressed concern at the new agriculture rules in the ongoing negotiations at the World Trade Organisation in the run up to the July deadline for agreement on a new frmework for farm
Gulbarga in Karnataka has, over the years, become synonymous with poverty, drought and backwardness. Severe droughts hit the district with unfailing regularity. Ironically, the district has always
Twenty one Chief Ministers landed up in New Delhi with their bagful of demands for more funds and bitter complaints on how poverty-alleviation schemes were circumventing them completely. They were in
Governor Lt Gen (Retd) S K Sinha exuded confidence that Jammu and Kashmir would emerge as the country's first state with zero below poverty line (BPL) population by 2007 with successful
With a kitty of about $3 billion assistance for India over the 2005-08 period, the World Bank has sharpened its focus on helping to improve the quality of life for some of the world's poorest
With the list of Chief Ministers seeking the Centre's intervention in river water sharing disputes getting longer, the Union Water Resources ministry will set up an empowered group to look into
The UPA is committed to raise investments in education, health and focus on pro-poor rural development. The goals are in sync with the World Bank's new country assistance strategy, which has set
Emphasising on the UPA agenda of poverty alleviation and improvement of the lives of the rural poor, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh will address all Chief Ministers in a conference to be held in the
The Manmohan Singh Government wants to begin with a clean slate and so it has started the process by "cleaning the slate". The Vajpayee Government's dream project of inter-linking rivers to do away