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 ...
24 Jun, 2025, 12.07 PM IST
India to present voluntary review on Sustainable Development GoalsNiti Aayog vice chairman Suman Bery and its chief executive officer BVR Subrahmanyam are likely to present India's achievements on key indi...
29 May, 2025, 01.08 AM IST
SDG targets remain off track in Asia-Pacific: UN ReportProgress towards Sustainable Development Goals in Asia and the Pacific is significantly off track, with most targets advancing too slowly o...
18 Feb, 2025, 08.27 PM IST
NITI Aayog's SDG report vindicates Bihar govt's demand for special category status: MinistersBihar ministers argue that NITI Aayog's SDG India Index 2023-24 supports their call for more central financial aid, with Bihar still at the...
15 Jul, 2024, 10.09 AM IST
India performs well on 85 indicators of SDG target; Asia and Pacific to take 32 years more to achieve SDG goals: UNESCAPData released by the UNESCAP as part of the Asia and the Pacific SDG Progress Report: Showcasing Transformative Actions 2024 report indicat...
15 Feb, 2024, 01.09 PM IST
World is off-track on two-thirds of SDG 8 indicators: ILOAn ILO analysis of the Sustainable Development Goal 8 shows that no progress has been made on its indicators over the last eight years and ...
15 Sep, 2023, 09.07 PM IST
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 ...
27 Feb, 2023, 01.52 PM IST
India way ahead of any income group country in reaching Sustainable Development Goals. Here's a lookWhile India is also lagging behind on SDG targets, it is still an outlier as far as performance on the 2030 targets is concerned. With the ...
17 Jun, 2022, 12.54 AM IST
India on verge of achieving SDG target of 70/lakh live births by 2030: GovtQuoting a special bulletin on Maternal Mortality Ratio (MMR)released by the Registrar General of India, the ministry said the country has b...
14 Mar, 2022, 06.10 PM IST
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...
23 Nov, 2021, 04.08 PM IST
NE Region District SDG Index: East Sikkim amongst 103 districts across eight statesIn the composite index, all districts in Sikkim and Tripura fall in the front runner category and there are no districts in the aspirant or...
26 Aug, 2021, 08.10 PM IST
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...
09 Jul, 2021, 09.42 AM IST
NITI Aayog unveils SDG India Index; Kerala, Himachal continue to be top performing statesAs per the index, Kerala, Himachal Pradesh, Andhra Pradesh, Goa and Karnataka continue to be the top performing states while Bihar, Jharkha...
03 Jun, 2021, 02.55 PM IST
India needs to enhance its spending by 6.2 per cent of GDP until 2030: Niti AayogIn its second voluntary national review at the United Nations high-level political forum (HLPF) on sustainable development, 2020, the gover...
13 Jul, 2020, 11.56 PM IST
India needs 6.2% additional spending of GDP to achieve 2030 development goals: NITI“The ways and means for this additional financing needs to be identified. At the same time, it is crucial to make sure that the budget allo...
13 Jul, 2020, 02.01 PM IST
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 ...
21 Dec, 2018, 07.24 PM IST
20% of world’s under-5 deaths occur in IndiaThe under-five mortality rate (U5MR) in India is about seven times higher than in high-income countries where 1 in 147 is dying.
09 Sep, 2015, 11.15 AM IST