The US is considering financial support for a $12 billion Diamer Bhasha Dam in an attempt to improve its battered image in the country, reports Guardian.
With only four years remaining in which to achieve the key targets of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), most of the world’s Heads of State and Government came to the United Nations in September 2010 to take stock of progress made thus far.
One hundred and forty nine farmer families in the Polonnaruwa District are being helped under a new community project of GlaxoSmithKline (GSK), to make the transition to better housing after their
The Madhya Pradesh Government has decided to increase the amount for treatment under Deendayal Antyodaya Upchar Yojana for BPL families from Rs 20,000 to Rs 30,000.
African countries and donors pledged more than $350 million Thursday at a fund-raiser in the Ethiopian capital to help millions facing starvation in the Horn of Africa's worst drought in decades.
The government should extend its assistance to the nearly 20 lakh people waterlogged in Khulna and Satkhira districts, demanded speakers at a press conference yesterday.
Britain said on August 17 that hundreds of thousands of children could starve to death in Somalia if the international community did not ramp up its response to the famine there, and pledged a furt
The Japanese government has provided US $ 68,072 (approximately Rs 7.3 million) grant aid for two rural development projects in the Moneragala and Hambantota districts under its Grant Assistance fo
Valerie Amos, the UN's emergency aid co-ordinator, Friday called for another billion dollars in donations to aid drought victims in Somalia and the general region of East Africa.
