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Former UN chief Kofi Annan passes away

 Annan was the first black African to take up the role of the world's top diplomat. IMAGE: United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan at Hyderabad House, in New Delhi on April 27, 2005.......

India lags behind in meeting UN goals

 India is lagging behind in meeting the United Nation's Millenium Development Goals for bringing down infant and maternal mortality rates, but is on course to achieve all other targets, the......

Citizens pledge to eradicate poverty by 2015

 A large number of people from various walks of life, including school students pledged on Monday to try and achieve the UN Millenium Development Goal of eradicating poverty by 2015, in what could......

UNSC seat, trade to be priorities of PM's visit

 Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh, who left on a two-nation tour this morning at 11.30, said while in New York he will continue to present India's case for expansion of the United Nations Security......

Moon talks of development goals with India Inc

 UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon on Saturday held talks with business leaders in the financial capital on a host of issues relating to furtherance of initiatives under the Millenium Development......

Corruption hampering devt goals: Ban Ki-moon

 Terming corruption as one of the factors responsible for the global financial crisis, UN Secretary General Ban-Ki-moon has said a concerted fight is required to eliminate the evil that is also......

Job creation: India keen to invest in infra

 India on Wednesday stressed on the need to significantly scale up investment in infrastructure, technology and skills development to create jobs as the world grapples with high unemployment rates......

Healthcare: World Bank warns of global crisis

The World Bank has expressed concern over rising healthcare costs world wide while countries are struggling to cope with HIV/AIDS crisis and bird flu pandemic.The multilateral agency was also......

'Growth essential to remove poverty'

 The economy needed high growth and policies for fast expansion in labour-intensive sectors in order to ensure that poverty and employment problems are tackled, said Montek Singh Ahluwalia, deputy......

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