The 2021 Global Hunger Index (GHI) shows us the impact of multiple crises like climate change, violent conflicts, and the COVID-19 pandemic, which led many countries to a grim hunger situation.......
If global temperatures rise by 2 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels, around 2.2 billion (220 crore) people living in the Indus River Valley in northern India and eastern Pakistan may......
An estimated 8.4 million people were living with Type 1 diabetes across the globe in 2021, and India was among the top ten countries with highest prevalence of the disease, according to a modelling......
India has the sixth highest prevalence of child marriage in the world with one in every three child bride living in India, a United Nations report said. Child marriage among girls is most common in......
The global community is in a position to eradicate AIDS, but funding will be critical to future progress, United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon has said as the fight against endemic entered......
Almost 129 million Indians are living in extreme poverty in 2024, on less than $2.15 (about Rs 181) a day, down from 431 million in 1990, the World Bank said in report on Tuesday. Photograph:......
More than half (56 per cent) of chief economists expect the global economy to weaken in 2024, with most saying the pace of geo-economic fragmentation will accelerate, according to the latest......
The Omicron variant of Covid-19 adds new uncertainties to the global economic outlook but much will depend on its speed of transmission, hospitalisation and death rates, and also the effectiveness......
India's progress on digital inclusion stalled in 2022 with no change in mobile internet use for either men or women, the latest mobile gender gap report, published by global mobile industry......
Starbucks' new Indian-origin CEO Laxman Narasimhan has said he will work as a barista once a month in stores to stay close to the company's culture, customers, challenges and opportunities.......
ICC offers wide range of platforms to tune into World Cup IMAGE: World Cup will be broadcast across seven regional language feeds in India. Photograph: ICC/Twitter To provide cricket fans across......