Mid-day meal has failed to attract children to government schools, says CAG audit

The latest report says that in most of the states children are not getting the prescribed level of nutrition through the food supplied under the …

Global population set to touch 9.7 billion in 2050: UN

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

'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 …

SDGs better than MDGs, but still flawed, say indigenous communities

According to them, SDGs do not recognise the collective rights of indigenous communities as one of the indicators

Rush for new development goals

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

Food poverty growing among older adults in India: LASI study

Nearly 6% of individuals in India aged 45 and above studied consumed smaller portions or skipped meals; 5.3% did not eat even when they were …

Recognise, empower indigenous land tenure and title to achieve SDGs holistically: UN Report

Collection of more data according to ethnic identity and involvement of indigenous people in development of sustainable frameworks are other …

Religious leaders pledge to alleviate poverty

They also declared they would do all they could to support the new SDGs, aimed at lifting millions of people out of poverty and creating a …

Global economy to grow slightly in 2016: World Bank

Global economic activity will see 2.9 per cent growth this year as per a report, slightly higher than 2.4 per cent in 2015

Sustainable Development Goals are not confined to poor countries

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

WHO TB report: India tops list of nations with high disease burden

India and China alone account for 35 per cent of tuberculosis cases reported in 2013

Health hurts

Budgetary support offers little hope of meeting targets

Africa's non-communicable disease burden likely to worsen without political will

Africa has the resources and support to tackle non-communicable diseases; all it requires is political will to seize the opportunity

Maternal mortality on a decline, but challenges remain

An earlier report had said that India accounts for the maximum number of maternal deaths in the world — 17 per cent or nearly 50,000 …

SDGs: Focus on short-lived climate pollutants ahead of UN Summit

Targeting methane and black carbon rich sources could prevent approximately 2.4 million deaths annually, says report

Global malaria mortality rates dropped 47 per cent between 2000 and 2013

Sixty-four countries are on track to meet Millennium Development Goal of reversing the incidence of malaria, according to a WHO report

Government to introduce four new vaccines as part of UIP

These include those against rotavirus, rubella and polio (injectable) along with Japanese encephalitis; is it a move to favour private companies?

'Like MDGs, India may fail to achieve SDG targets on malnutrition'

Vietnam targets poverty with tourism

An ILO project generates job opportunities for local people in remote villages

Official document exposes government’s intent to incentivise sterilisation

Fourteen women had died and 140 others were left ill after a botched sterilisation drive in Chhattisgarh

India's infant mortality rate is down

44 infant deaths per 1,000 live births is still higher than the 11th Plan target of reducing it to 30

UNDP administrator pushes for forest protection for sustainable development at Davos

‘Commodity production without deforestation a win-win situation’

World risks spending $250 billion on simply monitoring UN development goals: report

The number should be reduced from the current 169 targets

SDGs in the midst of global hope and fears

On September 25, the world will hope against hope as heads of more than 160 countries officially launch the goals

Children demand inclusion in water and sanitation programmes at UNICEF forum

More than 50 children from across the world participated at the two-day conference in Tajikistan