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...
16 Jul, 2024, 10.07 AM IST
Almost 90 per cent of Indians more vulnerable to public health issues, food shortages : StudyA study by the University of Cambridge has warned of increased risks to public health and food shortages due to climate change in India. Al...
20 Apr, 2023, 03.17 PM IST
Indian model of SDG localisation is relevant: NITI Aayog Vice Chairperson Suman BeryBery was addressing a special India side session at the UN High-level Political Forum on Sustainable Development on 'Indian model of SDG Lo...
14 Jul, 2022, 10.54 AM 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
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
Assam faces criticism for ranking last in NITI Aayog's SDG; CM Sarma hits backThe chief minister said, “We can locate breach in embankment, forecast floods and lighting with the use of satellite. In our development jo...
18 Jun, 2021, 10.00 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
Jammu and Kashmir among front-runners in Niti Aayog's SDG IndexThe composite index score of the UT in SDG-3 Goal has improved by 8 points from 62 in 2019-20 to 70 in 2020-21, the report said.
05 Jun, 2021, 07.02 PM 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 set to make PDS location independent: NITI Aayog CEO Amitabh Kant at UN forumAddressing the special event on the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) Acceleration Actions on the margins of 2020 High-Level Political Fo...
15 Jul, 2020, 01.03 PM IST
Himachal Pradesh, Tamil Nadu and Kerala top ranking states in SDG index: Niti AayogUnder this index, states will be monitored on real time basis across 62 of 309 parameters.
22 Dec, 2018, 07.43 AM IST
UN selects Noida to participate in Global Sustainable Cities 2025 initiativeIn September 2015, the UN General Assembly adopted the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development that includes 17 SDGs, otherwise known as th...
25 Nov, 2018, 10.24 PM IST
India witnessing gender disparities against backdrop of rapid economic growth: Gender indexNew Delhi, Oct 1 () India still witnesses gender disparities against the backdrop of rapid economic growth even as the rate of violence aga...
01 Oct, 2018, 07.06 PM IST
India ranks 116 out of 157 nations on SDG indexIndia is ranked 116th on the index with a score of 58.1, behind countries such as Nepal, Iran, Sri Lanka, Bhutan and China. Pakistan is ran...
13 Jul, 2017, 09.22 PM IST
India ranked 143 among 188 countries in health studyIndia's poor performance on hygiene, air pollution mortality are among factors that place it lower than countries like Bhutan, Botswana, Sy...
22 Sep, 2016, 06.13 PM IST
India ranks 110th on Sustainable Development indexIt ranks countries based on their performance across the 17 global goals, a set of ambitious objectives across the three dimensions of sust...
22 Jul, 2016, 10.25 AM IST