Birgunj Sub-metropolitan City, the Asian Development Bank and Municipal Development Fund today signed a memorandum of understanding for a Rs 3.25-billion project for the construction of sewage syst

The KMC Administrator Syed Hashim Raza Zaidi has said that comprehensive studies about Karachi Mass Transit and water drainage system had been conducted in the light of Master Plan 2020, and capaci

Minister for Science, Technology and Environment Uma Kant Jha has stressed on the need to provide clean cookstoves to every household in the country so that traditional stoves could be replaced as

The Sri Lankan government has received a US$ 98 million loan from the Asian Development Bank (ADB) to rehabilitate and improve around 120 kilometers of provincial roads in Sri Lanka's conflict affe

Giving a pat on the back to the government’s flagship Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGS), a recent study by the Asian Development Bank has said it is a very effecti

The destruction in Uttarakhand was caused not merely by excessive rain but due to mindless construction across young mountains and building of dams on the Ganga and its tributaries, said Magsaysay

Poor in Asia Pacific exposed to risks, unemployment & natural disasters due to lack of social protection system, says ADB

Large numbers of poor and vulnerable are exposed to risks and unexpected difficulties like unemployment, ill health, and natural disasters, an Asian Development Bank (ADB) study says, because of lack of adequate social protection systems in many fast-growing middle-income countries in Asia and the Pacific.

Says budgetary provisions for hill state would be almost doubled to Rs 700 cr from Rs 450 cr under MNREGA

Rural Development Minister Jairam Ramesh has substantially raised financial aid for the floods-ravaged Uttarakhand. This includes a budget of Rs 700 crore under the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Gurantee Act (MNREGA) scheme.

Agriculture Development Strategy (ADS) team has submitted its final report to the government.

Speakers at a workshop on Monday stressed the need for a sustainable fecal sludge management with appropriate technology, socially acceptable, financially viable and environment friendly sanitation