India enters top 100 in UN's global Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) rankings for first timeIndia has achieved a spot in the top 100 countries for Sustainable Development Goal progress. The UN report ranks India at 99th. This is a ...
Niti to map gender equality progress across districtsNiti Aayog along with the ministry of women and child development, has undertaken a detailed analysis of each indicator and sub-indicator u...
UN goal of creating a hunger-free world by 2030 unlikely to be achieved: German economistNoting that without major changes in the way the world produces, distributes and consumes foods, professor of agricultural economics and di...
Niti Ayog Vice Chairperson tells UN that India will achieve SDG goals before 2030Suman Bery said that India is on track to achieve its SDG Goal 1.2 of reducing the percentage of people living in poverty by half much ahea...
Significant progress in SDGs, but challenges remain: MoSPIThe report highlights significant gains made in maternal and child health, education, poverty and climate change since 2015-16. The Nationa...
India showing mirror to world today: Lok Sabha Speaker Om BirlaWhen India adopted parliamentary democracy post independence many countries doubted the country's potential, but today it is showing the mi...
India likely to achieve SDG goals for reduction in newborn deaths: Top WHO official"India has taken important steps to improve the quality of care during labour and childbirth, leading to reductions in maternal deaths. Thi...
India likely to miss 2030 deadline for over half of health SDGs: Lancet studyAn international team of researchers found that over 75 per cent Indian districts are off target for crucial SDG indicators like access to ...
India slips 3 spots to rank 120 on 17 SDG goals adopted as 2030 agenda: ReportWith the latest rankings, India is now behind all south Asian nations except Pakistan, which stands at 129. The south Asian countries ahead...
NITI Aayog launches SDG Urban IndexThe NITI Aayog Index developed in collaboration with GIZ and BMZ under the umbrella of Indo-German Development Cooperation ranks 56 urban a...
India says BRICS nations can play leading role in achieving 2030 SDG goalsIn his opening remark, Agriculture Minister Narendra Singh Tomar said, "BRICS countries are well-positioned to take a leading role in helpi...
Localisation of SDGs imperative to achieve 2030 Agenda: India at UNTirumurti said that breaking down goals and implementation to sub-national and local levels is the only way to succeed in achieving SDG tar...
Odisha's SDG performance increased by 10 points: GovernmentThe state ranked Number-1 in SDG-13 relating to action on combating climate change and its impacts. The state also ranked No-1 in SDG-14 re...
India slips two spots to rank 117 on 17 Sustainable Development Goals adopted as 2030 agenda: ReportIndia ranks below four South Asian countries -- Bhutan, Nepal, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh, it said. The overall SDG score of India is 61.9 ou...
Himachal Pradesh, Kerala, Tamil Nadu lead performers in Niti's SDG indexThe index took into account 13 out of 17 goals specified by United Nation's as SDGs and left out four goals because of lack of data at the ...
This is how Modi government aims to meet UN development goalsThe panchayati raj ministry has identified 17 SDGs which have a direct link to panchayats.
25-30 yrs needed for lifting poor above international poverty line: Environment MinisterThe UN has ushered in the ambitious 2030 SDGs with an aim of ending poverty, hunger while building a life of dignity for all over the next ...