Rajat Gupta, senior partner McKinsey & Company, Wednesday called for private-public partnership to boost development as envisaged by the UN's Millennium Development Goals. Addressing a plenary......
Former United Kingdom Prime Minister Gordon Brown has been appointed as the United Nations' special envoy for global education."It is a great privilege to be invited by the UN Secretary-General......
As the world's largest democracy, and also the country with the largest population of poor, India's case is critical to the success of the UN's Millennium Development Goals, Director of the UN's......
On Thursday, Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh urgedreformat United Nations, saying they were crucial to meeting the Millennium Development Goals. If you are wondering just what these Goals mean,......
Hundreds of young men and women from all over the world, including India, took part in the sixth youth assembly at the United Nations that stresses the importance of engaging youth to help achieve......
India has achieved the Millennium Development Goal for drinking water by providing 84 per cent of its rural population with access to improved sources of water, Rural Development Minister C P Joshi......
India and many other countries are unlikely to achieve the UN Millennium Development goals of halving poverty and education for all children by 2015, said India's Minister of State for External......
The UNDP's millennium development goal report for 2008 has come up with a contradiction of decline in poverty against increased hunger, malnutrition and maternal and infant deaths. The world,......
The entire country will have a Naxal problem if the government does not back the Millennium Development Goals with sufficient funds, Salil Shetty, Director of the UN Millennium Development......
More than four out of 10 citizens of the world (44%) agree that the eradication of poverty and hunger is the most important priority for the world, according to a new Voice of the People survey,......