India, like other Asian countries, has focused its climate change adaptation strategies on rural and urban areas while neglecting the urban fringes, say experts. Peri-urban areas are characterised by haphazard, accelerated expansion and are farthest from basic urban services and infrastructure, according to United Nations-Habitat’s ‘The State of Asian Cities 2010-11’. By 2020, of the projected 4.2 billion urban population of the world, 2.2 billion will be living in Asia, many...
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Rs. 7.2-crore Japanese grant for polio eradication
-The Hindu Japan has given United Nations children's fund UNICEF a grant of 120 million Yen, the equivalent to Rs. 7.2 crore, for buying vaccines, supplies, equipment and services in 2012 to ensure India remains free of polio virus. Japan's Ambassador to India Akitaka Saiki and UNICEF India Representative Karin Hulshof signed the Exchange of Note at a ceremony in the Japanese Embassy here. Shinichi Yamanaka, Chief Representative, Japan International Cooperation Agency,...
More »UN-backed effort aims to vaccinate 111 million children against polio in four days
-The United Nations A United Nations-backed campaign will seek to vaccinate more than 111 million children under the age of five against polio in 20 African countries in just four days. “The upcoming campaign in West and Central Africa will aim to cover all children, immunized or not, in order to boost their protection levels and deprive the virus of the fertile seedbed on which it depends for survival,” said the World...
More »Cheap generics no panacea for India's poorest
-Reuters Cheap generic drugs were meant to change the life of Nandakhu Nissar, whose mouth is swollen by a cancerous tumour. But the cashless and hungry 55-year-old sleeps on a pavement staring up at the windows of Mumbai's biggest cancer hospital. "What is a generic drug?" shrugs Nissar, who has travelled over 1,500 kms (900 miles) from his home in the hope of treatment. "I have borrowed money from friends and relatives...
More »Rajasthan making all efforts to achieve United Nations Millennium Development Goals: Ashok Gehlot
-PTI Rajasthan Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot today said that all efforts are being made in the state for achieving the United Nations Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). "Important steps are being taken in the state for achieving the MDGs by the deadline of 2015 through flagship programmes benefiting lakhs of poor and underprivileged people," Gehlot said, inaugurating a symposium 'MDGs in XII Plan of Rajasthan: Integrated and Futuristic Approach" here. The Chief Minister claimed...
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