UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon today asked India to play a major role in ensuring nuclear disarmament in South Asia.

Vajpayee, who was Prime Minister from 1998 to 2004, was the first Indian premier to speak in Hindi at the UNGA's Millennium Summit.

Reform of the UN Security Council will be among the priorities during the 69th General Assembly session.

Imagine the impact on food output and on the tenuous economy of the poor as millions of Daly are lost every year by women in Africa because...

MDGs are international development goals that UN member states , including India, have agreed to achieve by the year 2015.

Despite widespread poverty in the country, India is on track to meet UN's Millennium Development Goal (MDG) of poverty reduction by 2015, a...

India's poverty ratio is likely to be 26.7 per cent by 2015 while child mortality ratio is seen at 52 per thousand live births.

UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon on Wednesday announced a 40-billion-dollar drive to improve the health of women and children.

South Asia is lagging behind the Asia-Pacific region in poverty and hunger reduction, and is in danger of missing these key targets in the ...

The leaders of the world's richest nations warned Saturday the global recovery was still fragile and the economic crisis had compromised de...

The leaders of the world's richest nations warned Saturday the global recovery was still fragile and that the economic crisis had compromis...

World business and political leaders promised $16 billion in new programmes to help slash poverty, combat disease and boost education in th...

UN chief Ban Ki-moon on Thursday unveiled a report warning that poverty reduction goals agreed by world leaders eight years ago may not be ...

A top UN official has warned that global anti-poverty goals are threatened by the failure of the negotiations and sought their revival.

India may miss some of the targets mentioned in the United Nations' Millennium Development Goals but it was in the world's interest that th...

India does not require miracle solutions for meeting its millennium development goals (MDG) of water, sanitation, education and health, Dr ...

India has sought deeper commitment from political leaders across the world towards eliminating social and economic ills to make the Millenn...