United Nations Development Programme

Sonu Sood felicitated with Special Humanitarian Action Award by UNDP

Sonu Sood has been conferred with the prestigious SDG Special Humanitarian Action Award by the UNDP for his philanthropic work during coronavirus induced lockdown.

India kicks off $43 mn project, in three states to boost climate resilience, funded by Green Climate Fund

The six-year project will build climate-resilient livelihoods for 1.7 million people in Andhra Pradesh, Maharashtra and Odisha

Supreme Court to hear fresh plea tomorrow not to evict forest dwellers, set up special investigation team

A bench comprising Chief Justice Ranjan Gogoi and Justice Sanjiv Khanna had on 5 March taken cognisance of the plea filed by Chhattisgarh-based Tarika Tarangini Larka, seeking a direction to the Centre not to allot possession of any forest land belonging to tribals to anyone other than 'adivasi' residing in that particular area.

On International Women's Day eve, UNDP appoints Indian-American Padma Lakshmi its newest Goodwill Ambassador

In her new role, the Emmy-nominated television personality and award-winning author Padma Lakshmi will mobilise support for the Sustainable Development Goals with a focus on fighting inequality, discrimination and empowering the disenfranchised

SC stays eviction order on forest land: Centre's application to apex court points out grave anomalies in rejection of land title claims

According to the Union tribal affairs ministry’s application to the Supreme Court, its letter to state governments dated 12 September, 2014, had noted that reasons for rejection were not communicated.

Over 270 million people moved out of poverty in India since 2005-06, improvement fastest among STs, Muslims, shows UN data

Poverty reduction was fastest among children, the poorest states, scheduled tribes and Muslims in India where, in an historic shift, over 270 million people moved out of poverty in the decade since 2005-06, according to a new data.

Alibaba's Jack Ma to attend YouthConnekt Africa Summit in Rwanda

The three-day meeting on "realising Africa's youth potential" will bring together government officials, entrepreneurs, investors, multinationals, and startups shaping the African technological ecosystem to interact and discuss the methods of using technology to drive Africa's economic growth.

Manipur governor Najma Heptulla is Jamia Millia Islamia's first woman chancellor

Manipur governor and former minority affairs minister Najma Heptulla has been appointed as the chancellor of Jamia Millia Islamia.

Technology can ensure a vaccinated future for India's children

Modern technology, particularly the Internet of Things (IoT) and real-time monitoring, can reduce losses in high value goods such as vaccines (as well as other materials that degrade quickly) by better identification and resolution of problems of storage and transit than incumbent systems.

Rural Muslim poverty highest in Assam, UP and Gujarat: UN

United Nations has observed that poverty head count ratio for Muslims is highest in the states of Assam, Uttar Pradesh, West Bengal and Gujarat even as it expressed satisfaction over India's efforts to meet the millennium development goals in important areas.