Bangladesh should go for calculating disaster losses so that it could make prior investments to reduce peoples' vulnerabilities and economic losses caused by disasters, experts said yesterday.

While casualty rate from disasters came down in Bangladesh and elsewhere, financial loses from a large proportion of damage to local infrastructure, housing has increased which seriously threatens the eco

Green bonds could raise hundreds of billions of dollars a year to spur a shift to cleaner economic growth if governments set strong environmental goals such as for slowing climate change, the OECD said on Wednesday.

In a review of efforts to promote greener growth, it urged more innovation to favor investments in clean energies such as wind or solar power and a drive to place more value on ever

JAMMU, The State is expected to fall well short of the growth rate of 8 per cent during 11th five year plan, which is passing into its last year. During first four years of current five year plan, the State hasn

Addis Ababa Prime minister Manmohan Singh will take a final call on the draft national manufacturing policy on June 2.

The monetary value of agriculture sector during the last five years has increased by Rs 810.292 billion to Rs 5,670.77 billion, as it was Rs 4,860.477 billion in 2006. But, in real terms, it is declining.

Delhi is ranked third among states and UTs in respect of per capita income at current prices, said Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit today releasing a report of Estimated State Domestic Products of Delhi for the year 2010-11 with base year 2004-05.

As per advance estimates, per capita income will be Rs 1,35,814 with the annual growth rate of 16.19 per cent over the previous year.

At Rs.1,35,814 it ranks third highest in the country, reveals report
The per capita income of Delhi at current prices for the year 2010-11 ranked third among all States and Union Territories in the country, only behind Goa and Chandigarh, Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit said on Friday while releasing a report on Estimates of State Domestic Product of Delhi that has been prepared by the Directorate

New Delhi A World Bank review of India

The world must curb soaring use of resources ranging from coal to copper to prevent consumption from reaching ruinous levels by 2050, according to a U.N.

Targeting a 9% plus growth rate in the Twelfth plan period, the Government has initiated an exercise to assess the impact of economic growth on the environment.

An expert group, headed by environmental economist Partha Dasgupta, will provide a road map for Green National Accounting (GNA) system to evaluate impact of economic growth on environment by 2015.