The IMF’s April 2025 Regional Economic Outlook for Sub-Saharan Africa presents a clear warning: regional growth is slowing, debt pressures are mounting, and donor assistance is declining. Yet the report outlines critical opportunities particularly in domestic revenue mobilization, structural reform, and private sector activation that can shape a more resilient …
About 30 million children in this country and Pakistan are among the 125 million deprived of primary education worldwide owing to poverty and socio-economic circumstances, an international report says.
The persistence of large disparities in India between States, districts and among social groups provodes "a strong case for substantial public investment and urgent reforms in regions where there is a concentration of poverty and a poor human development."This is the major conclusion of a new study by the United …
Madhya Pradesh Government is planning to set-up an Urban Infrastructure development Fund (UIDF), aimed at funding state Urban Local Vodies (ULBs), municipalities for developing the urban infrastructure sector.
it seems , for now that is, all the frantic debates on the implications of human cloning were not really necessary. The last few months have not been very pleasant for cloning scientists. In December, researchers at the Kinki University, Japan, cloned eight genetically-identical cows from only 10 implanted embryos. …
The World Bank lending for India could resume as early as Thursday in a sign of international encouragement for New Delhi's forward movement on the nuclear issue, a senior US official has said. The official said in an interview on Tuesday that the US was discussing the issue with other …
The BJP-led coalition which promised to concentrate on the development of rural India has decided to cut the budgetary alloction of the ministry of rural areas and employment for 1998-99 by Rs 600 crore, And has proposed a Rs 400 crore reduction in the budgetary allocation for 1999-2000. Sources said, …
ENVIRONMENTALISTS and experts have condemned the Union government's decision to lower the price of diesel and have called it "irresponsible and unfortunate". Diesel is primarily responsible for worsening air pollution levels in the cities, they said. This move will encourage consumers to switch from petrol vehicles to diesel ones. On …
The G-15 summit opened today with leaders sharply attacking the International Monetary Fund for its bias against developing nations and demanded a decisive role for them in any negotiations for restructuring the global financial system.
Andhra Pradesh has so far utilised only 625 tmc ft of Godavari water out of its hare of 1,480 tmcft, according to an official document. This is out of the 3,000 tmcft estimated as being available in the river in a water year at 75 cent dependability.This implies that 854 …
The Bangalore Water Supply and Sewerage Board(BWSSB) is caught in a quandary over the award of a tender for a water treatment plant, one of the critical components of the first phase of the Rs 1,072 crore Cauvery Water Supply Scheme(stage IV).
in the field of science, the next century would belong to biology, say scientists attending the 86th Indian Science Congress Association ( isca), held in Chennai, Tamil Nadu, from January 3-7. They discussed issues that could possibly play a crucial role in shaping India's next millennium. The theme of the …
In a major step towards realising the "gram swarajya" dream, over 9,180 villages across Rajasthan will organise gram sabhas (village meetings) on the ensuing Republic Day to endorse the annual plans formulated at the local level. This forms part of the State Government's efforts for strengthening the Pancyayati Raj institutions …
Union Social Welfare Minister Maneka Gandhi today said she was totally opposed to the industrialisation of the country. Talking to the reporters in Bhubaneswar, she said anybody calling for industrialisation was an enemy of the state.
Mr Atal Behari Vajpayee's Government has decided to honour Nobel laureate, Professor Amartya Sen , with the Bharat Ratna, the nation's highest civilian honour.
Thailand is facing a water shortage and no one can agree on what to do about it. Unusally low rainfall in the last May-to-November rainy season left the water level in reservoirs around the country at barely half what they were a year ago. They are the lowest levels for …
a flawless countdown, a false dawn over much of Florida, gasps and cheers from onlookers marked the launch of space shuttle Endeavour , aptly named as it is humankind's first attempt to make a room with a view in outer space. The space shuttle blasted off from the Kennedy Space …
The third economic cooperation conference of Saarc commerce ministers will began here on February 2 to find ways for full implementation of South Asian Preferential Trade Agreement (Sapta) and pave the way for introducing South Asian Free Trade Agreement (Safta).
