This paper presents a status report of the BRICS nations (Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa) on two crucial development parameters—inequality and poverty—that have a significant bearing on the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs; especially SDG-1 and SDG-10). The paper tracks the origins and movements of absolute and relative poverty, …
Sanjay Jog / Mumbai March 25, 2010, 1:24 IST BRIC (Brazil, Russia, India and China) nations, with total population of 2.7 billion, will explore opportunities of cooperation in the field of agriculture. The agriculture ministers of the four countries, during their three-day meeting in Russia on March 25, will finalise …
AMIT AGNIHOTRI India's food security high on his agenda, Union agriculture minister Sharad Pawar will press for greater cooperation between Brazil, Russia, India and China (BRIC) to boost the farm sector during a meet in Moscow this week. Mr Pawar will address a conference of the agriculture ministers of the …
Jyoti Malhotra / New Delhi March 23, 2010, 0:58 IST India and Russia may have discussed far-reaching nuclear and defence cooperation behind the closed doors of Hyderabad House during Vladimir Putin
WITH Congress leadership sharing some of the concerns raised by the sceptics of the civil nuclear liability bill, the government on Sunday said it was ready to consider Opposition
Gorshkov delivery by 2012 end; key defence, aviation deals sealed Demonstrating the solidity of their strategic relationship to the world, India and Russia today sealed multi-billion dollars deals in key areas like defence, nuclear energy, diamond, petroleum and aviation as Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin reaffirmed Moscow
P B Jayakumar / Mumbai March 15, 2010, 0:23 IST Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin's current visit to India would give birth to a slew of Indo-Russian business collaborations. But, two major joint venture (JV) projects planned by Russian companies in India's rich mineral sector still remain just on paper, …
In satellite photos, like those on Google Maps, one can see the bright blue roof of a building in the shape of a hammer and sickle: Fabrika Kukhnya, or Kitchen Factory. Situated in southeast Russia, it’s a huge factory canteen dating from the height of Soviet industrialization in the 1930s. …
New Delhi: More than a dozen agreements, including an umbrella civil nuclear pact and another on the Gorshkov aircraft carrier, are likely to be signed between India and Russia tomorrow during Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin
Hundreds of thousands of people flee shorelines Marooned:Houses are flooded by seawater in a section of Kesennuma, northern Japan, on Sunday. TOKYO: The tsunami from Chile's devastating earthquake hit Japan's main islands and the shores of Russia on Sunday, but the smaller-than-expected waves prompted the lifting of a Pacific-wide alert. …
ERIC TALMADGE The tsunami from quake hit Japan's main islands and the shores of Russia on Sunday, but the smaller-than-expectedwaves prompted the lifting of a Pacific-wide alert. Hawaii and other Pacific islands were also spared. Hundreds of thousands of people fled shorelines for higher ground after the Pacific Tsunami Warning …
Persons with serious and disabling medical conditions have traveled abroad in search of stem cell treatments in recent years. However, weak or nonexistent oversight systems in some countries provide insufficient patient protections against unproven stem cell treatments, raising concerns about exposure to harm and exploitation. The present article, the first …
The report shows that while tigers are in dire trouble in some areas, they are still hanging on in others. Meanwhile, opportunities to grow tiger populations in landscapes where conservation efforts are beginning to take hold. The report card looks at key threats to tigers and monitors success in the …
Sujay Mehdudia NEW DELHI: Lauding the major renewable energy initiative of Jawaharlal Nehru Solar Mission, Russia on Tuesday expressed strong confidence that both New Delhi and Moscow had great potential for forging joint ventures and setting up manufacturing facilities for application of solar energy in the fields of industrial, military, …
Trains, planes and cars halted by snow and ice. Gas and electricity supplies rationed. Sensitive crops ruined. Boats frozen into waterways. For weeks, images of the coldest weather for decades have filled the media across Europe, Asia and North America. But there is an alternative weather story. In much of …
Ever since his second term as prime minister began in May, Manmohan Singh has been out on foreign tours so often that in South Block he is now jocularly known as the 'Flying Sikh'--a sobriquet reserved for India's most famous athlete of the 1960s. In June, Manmohan was in the …
Moscow: Russia is considering sending a spacecraft to a large asteroid to knock it off its path and prevent a possible collision with Earth, the head of the country
