The outlook for India remains largely positive, underpinned by robust private consumption and public investment as well as ongoing structural reforms, the UN DESA report said.
India's population could surpass that of China around 2024, two years later than previously estimated, and is projected to touch 1.5 billion in 2030, according to a UN forecast
Mumbai: In the latest State of the World's Children Report released in Mumbai, the UN Children's Emergency Fund (UNICEF) has warned that 69 million children under five will die from preventable causes if the world
New York: India is projected to add 300 million new urban residents by 2050 and it will need to build climate-friendly cities to address the challenge of accommodating the needs of the growing population, a
South Sudan govt allowing soldiers to rape women in lieu of pay: UN report
United Nations: Thirty four countries nearly 80 per cent of them in Africa don't have enough food for their people because of conflicts, drought and flooding, according to a UN report. The Food and
United Nations: India is among the countries with the largest surplus of men and a worrying under-five sex ratio with more girls dying before the age of five than boys, according to a UN report
United Nations: India has slipped in global rankings on broadband penetration but has made slight progress in the percentage of individuals using internet in the country, according to a United Nations report.The UN Broadband Commission
Women are grossly underrepresented in several fields in India: whether in politics, senior corporate leadership or even the bureaucracy. A new report launched by the Commonwealth Human Rights Initiative (CHRI) shines a light on the abysmally
New Delhi: The United Nations has voiced alarm over a rise in the number of children who fall victim to human trafficking. A UN report from the Drugs and Crime office said one in three
New Delhi: India figures third among top 10 countries where highest number of rape have taken place in 2010 while in cases of murder, the country comes second in 2012. Minister of State for Home
New Delhi: Indian parents' fear of their inability to find a suitable groom for their daughters along with the societal pressure to pay huge sum of dowry adds to the feeling of the girl child
New Delhi: India tops the list of countries with the largest share of global extreme poor though the poverty rate in southeast Asia as a whole saw a substantial fall from 1990 to 2010, a
United Nations: The international community should keep its commitments to strengthen partnership in support of closing gaps on anti-poverty targets, known as the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), according to a UN report issued Thursday."New countries
Chandigarh, July 10: The United Nations Office on Drugs and Crimes (UNODC) in its report has chronicled rampant large-scale trafficking of girls from other states into Haryana where they are held as bonded labourers and
New Delhi, Jun 20: The Maoist are recruiting and indoctrinating children and had constituted children's squads and associations as part of mass mobilisation, a UN report said.The annual report of the UN Secretary-General on Children
New Delhi, Jan 17: India's economic growth rate will remain subdued at 7.7 per cent in 2012 and 7.9 per cent in 2013 as downside risks have increased, mainly on account of problems in Europe
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