Millennium Development Goals

Andhra Pradesh passes Bill to empower girls, restore gender balance

Andhra Pradesh Assembly tonight passed a law which provides, among other benefits, financial assistance of Rs 2,500 to a family on birth of a girl child.

Toilets in India: The statistics stink

The sorry state of affairs has been confirmed by the latest baseline survey under the Nirmal Bharat Abhiyan, earlier Total Sanitation Campaign.

China, Africa poverty drop aids UN goal of halving poverty

A breakdown by region, however, shows that just Eastern Europe, the Middle East, and East Asia and the Pacific - which includes India and China - achieved the poverty goal. Africa and Latin America are not there yet, the World Bank said.

Global poverty declines, India, China key players: UN report