The UN’s trade and development body has downgraded its global economic growth projection for 2022 to 2.6% from 3.6% due to the Ukraine war and to changes in macroeconomic policies made by countries in recent months. While Russia will experience a deep recession this year, significant slowdowns in growth are …
Report reveals the need to reach target levels of coverage for life-saving interventions India has the highest number of pneumonia-related deaths in the world Only three countries reported coverage above the target level of 90 per cent for any vaccine NEW DELHI: Pneumonia, which is the world's leading infectious killer …
The United Nations has appointed a leading US lawyer to head an international court of arbitration to settle the dispute between India and Pakistan over Kishenganga hydro power project in Jammu and Kashmir, paving the way for legal proceedings to start. American jurist Stephen Myron Schwebel was the appointed chairman …
Mumbai: Without stronger basic infrastructure, particularly better roads, water supplies, sanitation, electricity, information and communications technology and other essential services, developing countries will be hard-pressed to meet the Millennium Development Goals (MDG) targets, said Asian Development Bank (ADB) president Haruhiko Kuroda. The MDGs are eight internationally-agreed targets, set 10 years …
UNITED NATIONS: European leaders have offered $1.3 billion at the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) summit here, amid mounting calls for money to pay for the battle to cut extreme poverty. The huge sum was offered late on Monday by EU Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso at the end of the …
Rajiv Tikoo New Delhi: The three-day United Nations Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) summit beginning from Monday in New York will take stock of the global progress and what more remains to be done to achieve the goals. The summit will be attended by senior government officials and business leaders across …
Millennium Development Goals summit begins UNITED NATIONS: U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon opened a summit on Monday with a plea to the assembled Presidents, Prime Ministers and kings to use their power to meet U.N. goals to help the world's poorest by 2015. Ten years after world leaders set the most …
Anita Joshua ISLAMABAD: Moved by Pakistan's decision to continue providing refuge to the 1.7 million Afghan refugees living here despite the devastating floods, United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees Antonio Guterres on Thursday said:
JAIPUR: Citizens, civil society groups and civil rights activists will gather at events being organised in 25 districts of Rajasthan this weekend to amplify their support to the U.N. Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) aimed at eradicating extreme poverty and its root causes by 2015. This week marks the 10 {+t} …
The country has made progress in reducing infant mortality but it is still some distance from its 2015 target Indicus Analytics / September 9, 2010, 0:39 IST According to the Millennium Development Goals adopted by the United Nations, India has the target of reducing the infant mortality rate (IMR) to …
The situation in Pakistan, where 21 million people have been affected by historic floods, is worsening, the United Nations said Tuesday. "The situation is worsening as we now have almost 21 million people directly affected by these floods," said Elisabeth Byrs, spokeswoman at the Office for the Co-ordination of Humanitarian …
The situation in Pakistan, where 21 million people have been affected by historic floods, is worsening, the United Nations said Tuesday. "The situation is worsening as we now have almost 21 million people directly affected by these floods," said Elisabeth Byrs, spokeswoman at the Office for the Co-ordination of Humanitarian …
The United Nations is considering a proposal to implement the Mahatma Gandhi Tanta Mukti Gaon Mohim (Dispute-free Village Scheme) of the state government in other developing nations of the world, State Home Minister R R Patil said on Monday. Pune Rural SP Pratap Dighavkar had presented the model of the …
The United Nations (UN) System (WFP, UNDP and UNICEF) has extended its support to 14,000 cyclone Aila affected families still living on embankments in Bangladesh. Drawing assistance from the UK's Department for International Development (DFID), the UN agencies will work to distribute food, assist with shelter and implement basic Water, …
More than four million Pakistanis have been made homeless by nearly three weeks of floods, the United Nations said on Thursday, making the critical task of securing greater amounts of aid more urgent. The UN had earlier said that two million people had lost their homes in the worst floods …
ANDREW JACOBSThree lakh, forty thousand people in India and China die each year from cardiovascular and respiratory dis eases that can be traced to noxious emissionsAnoxious cocktail of soot, smog and toxic chemi cals is blotting out the sun in Beijing, fouling the lungs of millions of people and altering …
Anita JoshuaISLAMABAD: As most of Pakistan remained submerged in water and with countries and individuals slow in loosening their purse-strings, the U.N. on Tuesday declared the fortnight-long flooding of the country as a calamity graver than the three biggest natural disasters of this century put together
