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Poverty, child, maternal deaths high in India: UN report

India continues to battle poverty, child and maternal deaths, according to a United Nations report on the Millennium Development Goals that said while several key global targets have been met,......

Why true progress will elude some nations

Even as the world's deadline for the achieving the Millennium Development Goals (MDG) approaches in 2015, countries are not making water and sanitation a priority, which in turn impacts other......

Every minute, 12 children die hungry

A dozen children under the age of five die every minute from hunger-related diseases and the number of malnourished is on the rise, a new UN report has said. It expressed doubt that the world can......

'Infant mortality rate not declining fast enough'

At the current rate of decline in the under-5 Infant Mortality Rate, India is not likely to achieve the Millennium Development Goalof bringing down the IMR to 40 per 1,000 live births for the year......

Do you get clean water? Check out our map to see the improvement in water sources

Move the slider on the map above to see the change in percentage of population using an improved drinking water source over 1990 to 2015. According to the World Health Organization, between 1990......

India, home to 190.7 million starving people

The number of hungry people in India has fallen to by 9.5 per cent to 190.7 million now from 210.8 million two decades ago, but in neigbouring Pakistan the number has risen by over 38 per cent in......

UP, Bihar, J'khand among poorest states; Kerala, Goa have lowest poverty: Niti

Bihar, Jharkhand and Uttar Pradesh have emerged as the poorest states in India, according to Niti Aayog's first Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI) report. Illustration: Uttam Ghosh/Rediff.com As......

India's poverty rate may 'fall' to 24% by 2015

The global financial crisis has hit the realisation of Millennium Development Goals hard with loss of employment and food inflation slowing down the progress and an additional 64 million people......

India unlikely to meet development goals: ADB

The Asian Development Bank said on Wednesday India, despite making significant improvement in access to primary education, will not meet the millennium development goal targets as in the case of......

Petrol pump dealers plan strike on April 13

About 32,000 petrol pump dealers across the country will go on a day-long strike on April 13 to press for their demands and have threatened to launch an indefinite shutdown from April 28 if their......

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Poverty, child, maternal deaths high in India: UN report

Why true progress will elude some nations

Every minute, 12 children die hungry

'Infant mortality rate not declining fast enough'

Do you get clean water? Check out our map to see the improvement in water sources

India, home to 190.7 million starving people

UP, Bihar, J'khand among poorest states; Kerala, Goa have lowest poverty: Niti

India's poverty rate may 'fall' to 24% by 2015

India unlikely to meet development goals: ADB

Petrol pump dealers plan strike on April 13

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