The World Bank and USAID will help India in several infrastructure and developmental sectors to improve the quality of life in the country and support the programmes on a fast track. Union minister

About Rs 17.17 crores has been spent on development works in Sonepat during the last two-and-a half years to develop this important city of Haryana that falls under the National Capital Region and

The ministry of urban development has failed to implement Centrally-sponsored programmes as over 3,000 projects, involving over Rs 300 crores, were lying unused with the ministry, state governments

A joint mission on World Bank and Department (DFID) indicated that Orissa might be provided a substantial budgetary support to tide over its current fiscal problems. The assistance to be provided

The "ECONOMIC ATTAINMENT and well being" parameters of the people, depicted in the National Human Development Report 2001, make for a grim reading. Whether on employment, access to safe drinking

The UN Conference on Trade & Development (UNCTAD) has suggested "a strong demand stimulus" from all the major industrial countries for the recovery to gain impetus and for developing countries to

Human development reports may not be infallible socio-economic guides, but they help governments and people focus on the basics. There is cause for concern, therefore, in Assam's fall from the 10th

Over Rs. 37.81 crore have been spent on the implementation of various rural development works in Jammu division during the last financial year. As a result, 13066 different development works have

THIS publication is a collection of papers on the state of market towns and their trends in some countries of the Hindu-Kush Himalayan region. The role market centres in small towns play in the

Released recently, the Bellagio memorandum advocates best practices for policies on vehicular emission reduction worldwide