National Skills Development Fund to invest surplus in term deposits for better returnsThe government-owned trust plans to prepare a panel of banks for investment of surplus funds in fixed deposits and has invited expressions ...
20 Nov, 2024, 02.28 PM IST
Asian Development Fund to be replenished with USD 5 bn : ADB PrezAsian Development Fund (ADF) to receive USD 5 billion for vulnerable in Asia Pacific. ADB President Asakawa announces higher replenishment ...
03 May, 2024, 08.17 PM IST
NK Singh makes case for hike in development banks’ capitalMultilateral development banks (MDBs) need to triple sustainable lending and create new funding mechanisms by 2030 if poverty is to be erad...
19 Jul, 2023, 12.46 AM IST
Pakistan facing economic crisis presents a different kind of concernInternational lenders were refusing to give funds. The floods pushed any kind of economic recovery out of the realm of possibility. Pakista...
12 Jan, 2023, 11.02 PM IST
Report shows China's growing clout at World Bank, global institutionsWith over $66 billion in total capital, China has passed Japan to become the second-largest contributor to the system of development banks ...
18 Nov, 2021, 07.52 PM IST
View: What will the Taliban do with a $22 billion economy?Managing that economy has been a cohort of Afghan technocrats, many of them Western-educated or trained. Very few of them are expected to r...
26 Aug, 2021, 08.53 PM IST
IMF moots $50-billion 3-pronged proposal to help end pandemicThe key element of the proposal is vaccination of at least 40% of the global population by the end 2021 and 60% by 2022, which is to be ach...
22 May, 2021, 07.48 AM IST
India wants Asian Development Bank to step up lending, private sector operationsKeeping in view the need for a 'Global Development' approach and the long-term perspective of addressing remaining poverty, she said, ADB s...
18 Sep, 2020, 08.59 PM IST
Several Indian companies debarred by World Bank in 2018India-based Angelique International Limited has been debarred by the World Bank for four years and six months for their fraudulent and corr...
04 Oct, 2018, 03.23 PM IST
More global entities, banks need to join hands with International Solar Alliance: Arun JaitleyISA is working for deployment of over 1000 GW of solar energy and mobilising more than $1 trillion into solar energy by the year 2030.
02 Nov, 2017, 05.06 PM IST
Reckitt Benckiser, USAID launch Hygiene IndexThis will include depicting investments made by various departments, and the companies will host an annual city hygiene award programme.
21 Nov, 2016, 02.16 PM IST
Chinese legislature starts process of ratifying AIIB dealChina's national legislature will deliberate later this month a proposal concerning the ratification of an agreement on the Asian Infrastru...
20 Oct, 2015, 10.27 AM IST
Nepal to invite PM Narendra Modi for donor conference to raise fundsNepal is hosting an international conference of donors to gather assistance for rehabilitation and reconstruction works in the aftermath of...
10 Jun, 2015, 07.01 PM IST
Global funding dips by 90 per cent, may cripple war on AIDSMany organizations, mainly bilateral and philanthropic donors, have shifted focus to other diseases such as tuberculosis and family plannin...
23 May, 2015, 11.47 AM IST
World 'dangerously unprepared' for future pandemics: Jim Yong KimWorld Bank President Jim Yong Kim said the world is "dangerously unprepared" for future pandemics which could be more dangerous than the Eb...
28 Jan, 2015, 10.07 AM IST
- Suresh Prabhu selected GWP's S Asia Chairperson
Stockholm's Global Water Partnership (GWP) has selected MP Suresh Prabhu as its Chairperson for South Asia for a period of three years.
02 Jan, 2007, 12.10 PM IST
- We don’t need ‘tied aid’: FM
Finance Minister P Chidambaram on Tuesday ruled out the possibility of India accepting ‘tied aid’ or any other external aid with conditions...
28 Jun, 2006, 02.22 AM IST