In the past two decades, progress in tackling malnutrition has been pitifully slow. This report demonstrate how investment in nutrition is not only the right thing to do, it is a down-payment on future prosperity.

India has electrified an annual average of 24 million people & provided 20 million a year with access to modern cooking since 1990 according to this IEA-led report that outlines challenges ahead as countries try to meet objectives of SE4ALL initiative.

Governments have a key role to play in influencing private sector investment, by improving the enabling conditions for investment in sustainable transport infrastructure and delivering investment grade policies.

Governments have a key role to play in influencing private sector investment, by improving the enabling conditions for investment in sustainable transport infrastructure and delivering investment grade policies.

Says China and India will also turn into the world's two biggest investors by 2030

The percentage of global investment that goes to developing countries should triple in the next two decades as emerging economies catch up to richer nations and become more integrated into financial markets, the World Bank predicted in a report on Thursday.

India is the third largest market for new wind turbines worldwide, adding 2,5 GW according to this report released by World Wind Energy Association.

About one-third of the world’s population — 2.4 billion people — will remain without access to improved sanitation in 2015, according to a joint WHO/Unicef report issued on Monday.

The report — Progress on sanitation and drinking-water 2013 update, warns that at the current rate of progress, the 2015 millennium development goal (MDG) target of halving the proportion of the 1990 population without sanitation will be missed by 8 per cent, or half a billion people.

Pune: A national forum on tuberculosis (TB) has been launched to raise awareness on the need for better control of condition.

In many parts of the world, livestock production is undergoing a process of rapid intensification. The health implications of this development are uncertain. Intensification creates cheaper products, allowing more people to access animal-based foods. However, some practices associated with intensification may contribute to zoonotic disease emergence and spread, for example the sustained use of antibiotics, concentration of animals in confined units, and long distance and frequent movement of livestock.

The Polio Eradication and Endgame Strategic Plan 2013-2018 prepared by WHO addresses the eradication of all polio disease, whether caused by wild poliovirus or circulating vaccine-derived poliovirus, while planning for the backbone of the polio effort to be used for delivering other health services to the world’s most vulnerable children.

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