India performing better than many developed nations on SDGs: Bibek DebroyAccording to Bibek Debroy, Chairman of the Economic Advisory Council to the Prime Minister (EAC-PM), India is relatively well-performing in...
30 Nov, 2023, 10.38 PM IST
Globally two-thirds of child-related SDGs off-track, India's progress will have huge impact on world: UNICEF chiefUNICEF chief Catherine M. Russell has stated that two-thirds of child-related Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are off-track globally, ...
08 Oct, 2023, 12.36 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
NITI Aayog vice-chairman says Indian model of localisation needed to achieve SDGs 2030NITI Aayog Vice-chairman Suman Bery on Thursday stressed on the need for an Indian model of localisation to achieve Social Development Goal...
27 Oct, 2022, 12.47 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
India's march towards SDGs anchored in investing in human capital, inclusive growth: Eco SurveyScaling up development programmes for improving connectivity, providing housing and bridging gender gaps in socio-economic indicators is of...
31 Jan, 2020, 02.25 PM IST
Still a long way to go to raise public health expenditure to 2.5 per cent of GDPThe report, tabled in Parliament on Monday, noted that public health expenditure as a percentage of GDP has been increasing since 2015-16 b...
08 Jul, 2019, 09.09 PM IST
Asia-Pacific may meet only one out of 17 SDGs, warns UN officialWhen we look across the SDGs right now, Asia-Pacific as a whole is on track to meet only one of the 17 SDGs. We are only going to meet the ...
22 Jul, 2018, 12.42 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
Developed nations must take lead in tackling sustainability: Arvind PanagariyaPanagariya said international community will not achieve global transformation if nations don't work collectively to secure global public g...
20 Jul, 2016, 12.36 PM IST
UN ushers in ambitious 2030 Sustainable Development GoalsThe Millennium Development Goals came to an end with 2015 paving the way for the SDGs, an even more ambitious set of goals to banish a host...
01 Jan, 2016, 11.49 AM IST
Central schemes to benefit people at grass-root level: Govt"The targets and achievements under these schemes also address most of the SDGs adopted by the UN," Minister of State for Planning Rao Inde...
21 Dec, 2015, 03.46 PM IST
World won't achieve its development goals without India coming through: Bill GatesGates says sustainable development goals will be effective only if incorporated into national plans & why they are important for India.
30 Sep, 2015, 05.02 PM IST
Generic drugs row: NGOs ask India not to buckle under US pressureA group of NGOs asserted that the US pressure on India's generic manufacturing capacity is threatening the lives of millions in the develop...
25 Sep, 2015, 11.41 PM IST
JP Nadda urges nations to work together towards realising SDGsNadda urged nations to work together and carve out mechanisms of partnerships to reach Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) even as 22 coun...
28 Aug, 2015, 10.14 PM IST
- Can the SDGs achieve what the MDGs could not?
With the Millennium Development Goals completing its cycle in 2015, Sustainable Development Goals have been in the spotlight of internation...
28 Sep, 2012, 01.27 PM IST