-Down to Earth Report shows good progress in areas like poverty alleviation and access to clean water and controlling diseases like TB, Malaria The United Nations (UN) released this week the Millennium Development Goals (MDG) Report, 2014. The report, launched by UN secretary-general Ban Ki-moon, says that many of the development goals have been met or are within reach by 2015. The report is the latest finding to assess the regional progress towards...
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Aadhaar didn’t fit the bill -Yashwant Sinha
-The Indian Express UPA's version was inadequate. NDA must improve upon it. In your editorial on July 7 (‘A stronger Aadhaar', Indian Express) you have stated that "The BJP is complicit in Aadhaar's uncertain legal status - the UPA was forced to rely on executive orders because the UIDAI bill was held up by the Yashwant Sinha-headed standing committee on finance." The impression your editorial seeks to convey is entirely erroneous. It...
More »India's green area grows 5,871 sqkm in 2 years -Vishwa Mohan
-The Times of India NEW DELHI: India recorded an increase of 5,871 sq km in its forest cover in the past two years with West Bengal contributing over 60% of the total rise in green area. Odisha, Kerala, Jharkhand and Bihar were the other states which contributed to this marginal increase. Hilly and tribal districts of the country registered an increase in forest cover of 40 sq km and 2,396 sq km, respectively. The...
More »Bihar records highest dip in poverty ratio -Chetan Chauhan
-The Hindustan Times In what could be a relief to Janata Dal (United) leader Nitish Kumar, the C Rangarajan panel on poverty estimation report has said that in Bihar the poverty ratios dipped by over one-third in just two years between 2009-10 and 2011-12 - much greater than any other state in India. Kumar had resigned as Bihar chief minister after receiving drubbing at the hands of the BJP-led...
More »Poverty, child, maternal deaths high in India: UN report
-PTI India had the highest number of under-five deaths in the world in 2012 India continues to battle poverty, child and maternal deaths, according to a United Nations report on the Millennium Development Goals that said while several key global targets have been met, more sustained effort is needed to cover disparities by the 2015 deadline. The ‘Millennium Development Goals Report 2014′, launched by UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon in United Nations Monday said...
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