'Kerala has nothing to learn from Telangana,' Vijayan targets Revanth Reddy over his campaign commentsKerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan has strongly responded to Telangana Chief Minister Revanth Reddy's criticisms. Vijayan stated Kerala...
03 Apr, 2026, 05.11 PM IST
India’s maternal mortality drops nearly 80% since 1990: Global studyIndia has achieved a remarkable reduction in maternal deaths, dropping from 508 to 116 per lakh livebirths since 1990. This progress exceed...
28 Mar, 2026, 03.40 PM IST
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
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
Proud of its SDG localisation model, India says it has fully integrated SDGs into national development strategiesIndia's Deputy Permanent Representative to the UN, Ambassador Yojna Patel, highlighted India's full integration of the Sustainable Developm...
09 Jul, 2024, 07.54 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
Shimla, Coimbatore, Chandigarh top Niti Aayog's 1st SDG Urban India Index; Dhanbad, Meerut at bottomOther toppers in SDG Urban Index and Dashboard 2021-22 are Thiruvananthapuram, Kochi, Panaji, Pune, Tiruchirapalli, Ahmedabad and Nagpur.
23 Nov, 2021, 06.30 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
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...
22 Jun, 2021, 11.12 AM IST
ReNew Power CMD Sumant Sinha recognised as SDG Pioneers by UNGCSumant Sinha of ReNew Power was recognised as an SDG Pioneer of the year, a company statement said. As the leader of India's leading renewa...
17 Jun, 2021, 01.38 PM IST
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...
06 Jun, 2021, 02.28 PM IST
Sustainable Development Goals(SDG) Investor Map launched by UNDP and Invest IndiaDue to Covid-19, the SDG financing gap has widened by an estimated $400 billion in developing countries, adding to the pre-COVID shortfall ...
24 Nov, 2020, 09.43 AM IST
Actress Dia Mirza, Alibaba chief among 17 new 'SDG Advocates' of UNFounder and Executive Chairman of Chinese multinational conglomerate Alibaba Group Jack Ma has been an SDG Advocate since 2016.
10 May, 2019, 01.46 PM IST
- SDG elects two Indian as global partners
US-based management consulting firm Strategic Decisions Group (SDG) today said it has appointed two Indians-- Aashish Mehra and Girish Shir...
15 Apr, 2011, 05.01 PM IST