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UNDP selects ocean innovators for sustainable development

13 innovators from SIDS and LDCs to receive funding and mentorship

UNDP calls for massive investment in SIDS Climate Adaptation

Policy brief highlights urgent need to break costly disaster cycle

Government signs MoU with UNDP for capacity building and digitalization of vaccine cold chain management

This partnership aims to enhance the digitalization of vaccine cold chain management, capacity building, and communication planning in India.

Nearly 25 crore Indians moved out of multidimensional poverty in last 9 years, says NITI Aayog paper

According to report, UP registered biggest decline in number of poor, followed by Bihar, MP, Rajasthan, where 3.77 crore, 2.30 crore and 1.87 crore people escaped poverty in the period.

Multidimensional Poverty Index by UN shows India’s ‘remarkable’ poverty reduction

Besides India, China lifted 69 million out of poverty between 2010-2014, and Indonesia 8 million between 2012-2017.

Not saying nepotism doesn’t exist, but I never felt it, says Bhumi Pednekar on Bollywood journey

In Delhi to attend the launch of 2nd edition of UNDP India’s flagship magazine, the actress spoke about various issues — from her film career and gender equality to climate change.

Wealthy nations’ failure to honour climate finance pledge a ‘travesty’, says UNDP

Wealthy nations are yet to deliver on the 2009 pledge to provide $100 billion per year for developing nations to deal with the consequences of rising temperatures.

UNDP report found 1.2 bn people ‘multidimensionally poor’. Here’s how they calculated it

Data gathered through household surveys for over 6.1 billion people across 111 countries. In India, common deprivations were lack of housing, sanitation, cooking fuel & nutrition.

India ranks 132 out of 191 in United Nation’s 2021 human development index

India's HDI value of 0.633 places it in the medium human development category, lower than its value of 0.645 in the 2020 report, when it ranked 131 out of 189 countries.

NALSA was supposed to be India’s beacon for legal aid. But it’s stuck in a systemic rut

More than 80% of India’s 1.3 billion people are eligible for legal aid. But only 15 million have benefitted from it since NALSA was established in 1995.

On Camera

Buying Russian oil, misreading Trump—3 points will define India’s next energy strategy

India should have secured greater savings by pressing Russia for prices nearer the cap while sustaining high volumes. This would have preserved strategic autonomy and served economic logic.

Go Swadeshi—RSS affiliate SJM calls for boycott of US firms Amazon, Walmart after Trump’s tariff hike

New Delhi: The day after the US imposed a 50 percent trade tariff on India, RSS affiliate Swadeshi Jagran Manch (SJM) has made an...

Shadow war over India’s defence procurement on social media raises concerns of dodgy & undue influence

One such website has drawn particular scrutiny for spreading fake stories that have upset not only the Indian but also foreign defence firms by falsely attributing misinformation.

Pakistan, Dhaka have played Washington well. Back home, Modi ecosystem has an inner conflict

To protect ourselves from Trumpian diplomacy, first we must introspect the bipolarity within our establishment discourse.