Nearly 65% of adults in the Arab region remain excluded from formal financial systems, according to a new report by the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia (ESCWA). The Annual SDG Review 2025 paints a sobering picture of persistent financial exclusion that is undermining the region’s ability …
If you saw tv programmes or read newspapers on the latest budget, you would have thought it is only for business leaders. The manner in which business editors and columnists went overboard to seek the response of the corporate community to Yashwant Sinha's latest hat-trick of budgetary numbers shows a …
Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Renewal Mission (JNNURM) has been launched by Govt. of lndia for promoting urban reforms and investments in the selected 63 cities of India. Ludhiana is one of the eligible cities. CDP is a requirement to access the funds under JNNURM as per the guidelines. A set …
a storm is brewing in the southern state of Andhra Pradesh. It is not one that augurs well for a state known for the progress heralded by its computer-friendly and media-savvy chief minister Chandrababu Naidu. The state government is at an advanced stage of signing a memorandum of understanding ( …
the ministry of environment and forests ( mef ) has proposed the creation of a banking institution in which various State Forest Corporations will have a holding. This would be done by drawing funds from the present State Forest Corporations and would not require additional expenditure. Through this institution, funds …
march witnessed the end to a us $5 billion dream of connecting people across the globe. And the aftermath will be felt over the next couple of years. For, when Iridium
When Union finance minister Yashwant Sinha said he would be presenting a harsh budget, very few thought it would be harsh on the environment. Today apart from the fiscal deficit, the biggest crisis facing India is the crisis on the environmental front. This budget has even shed the pretense of …
on december 13, Erika, a 25-year-old tanker carrying over 30,000 tonnes of TotalFina crude broke into two and sank just south of the English Channel. The massive oil slick spread along 500 km of the French coast. For over three weeks after the incident, the company, French oil giant TotalFina, …
if the ministry of environment and forests ( mef ) is to be believed, financial institutions may soon lend money to the environmental sector on a priority basis. At a meeting held recently, the Union minister for environment and forests, Suresh Prabhu, discussed the details of institutional financing for environmental …
at this time of the year, the excitement surrounding the budget begins to build up. Speculation will continue till the Budget is presented in the Lok Sabha, followed by series of commentaries in the media. The hype surrounding the budget is understandable; after all, it is the an event of …
Brazil has slashed funds which it had promised to contribute towards a pilot project aimed at preserving the Amazon forests. The US $250-million-project was backed by seven leading industrial nations. At an agreement signed at the 1992 Earth Summit in Rio De Janerio, Brazil had agreed to contribute 10 per …
the ngo-aids cell functioning under the Centre for Community Medicine ( ccm ) at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences was suddenly closed down after its coordinator Shankar Chowdhary went on a deputation elsewhere. The cell was operating since 1991. Various non-governmental organisations ( ngo s), who were sponsored …
BAN on commercial felling of trees in Himachal Pradesh is yielding results. The forest cover has increased and there has been a rise in the population of endangered species like the snow leopard. The state government, which had banned tree felling for commercial purposes, is now permitting felling by farmers …
AN EXPERT team which visited Kaziranga National Park in Assam to assess the damage caused by floods reported that nearly 1,070 animals died due to starvation or were washed away. The floods led to the death of 40 one-horned rhinos, seven elephants, 983 hog deers, 19 wild boars, 13 sambhars …
A recent issue of India Today laments the tightening of state funds to the prestigious Indian Institutes of Technologies ( iit s) and the resulting problems that this is creating for the faculties and student bodies. It invokes the evil influence of the World Bank to say that Indian 'economic …
UCASE'>: : Pakistan government has declared the flood-hit districts of Tuebat and Guwadar as a calamity-hit area. Fresh flash-floods wreaking havoc in various places continued unabated. Rescue and relief operations are going on and rescue personnel are busy searching for more bodies. Over 500 people have lost their lives, while …
