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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......

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, 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......

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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

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

India, home to 190.7 million starving people

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