Global population set to touch 9.7 billion in 2050: UN

India will be the most populous country in the world by 2022

'South Asia, Africa show poor progress towards MDGs'

India fares worse than Bangladesh and Nepal, says report

Experts call for holistic approach to reproductive healthcare

Urge governments to give women free healthcare to reduce maternal mortality

Health millennium goals neglected in Asia-Pacific region: UN report

3 million children below five died in 2010 alone

'Politics, science and civil society will determine success of SDGs'

Paul V Gandingen, director at Ecosystem Services for Poverty Alleviation (ESPA) and a UNESCO chair, talks about how countries can achieve …

Rush for new development goals

UN works on agenda to follow millennium goals; civil society says it has been given little role

Sustainable Development Goals are not confined to poor countries

Unlike the Millennium Development Goals, SDGs will not be confined to poor countries  

Battle against TB

Latest WHO report highlights the advances made by countries in controlling the spread of tuberculosis and recommends ways to achieve eradication 

The future we do not want

World leaders attending Rio+20 did nothing to tackle the interlinked crises of economy and ecology, says Sunita Narain after attending the …

Budget 2013-14: provisioning for universal healthcare or moving away from agenda?

The world trend is to move towards public health systems, but developments in India seem to be in the opposite direction

The widening nutrition gap

Difference in the nutritional status of Kerala’s general rural populace and that of Attappady could be as high as 50 per cent

Push to include access to energy in UN development goals

Speakers at a consultative meeting in Delhi call for finding sustainable and affordable technological solutions for making energy accessible to …