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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,......

Hope UNSC reform process will be accelerated: UN chief

 Ahead of a visit to India, United Nations chief Ban Ki-moon on Tuesday expressed hope that the Security Council's reform process will be accelerated to meet expectations of countries like India......

India, Brazil, SA win top UN award

 India, Brazil and South Africa received the 2010 Millennium Development Goals awards for South-South Cooperation at a prestigious gala at the Waldorf Astoria hotel in New York. The award recognized......

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......

India home to largest illiterate population:UNSECO

 India still has the largest number of illiterate adults in the world, but has made "rapid advances" in cutting down the numbers of school drop-outs, a new United Nations report on education has......

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......

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......

Full text of the BRICS declaration in Sanya

 Leaders of BRICS -- China, Brazil, Russia, India and South Africa -- issued a joint declaration at the conclusion of the BRICS Summit in Sanya (China) on Thursday.The joint declaration lists the......

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......

More cell phones in India than toilets: UN report

 Far more Indians have access to cell phones than to toilet and basic sanitation, a new United Nations report has said. "It is a tragic irony to think that in India, a country now wealthy enough......

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