India ranks a dismal 134 among 187 countries in terms of human development index in the UNDP's latest Human Development Report. BEGGING ON A busy street in Mumbai.

IN the recently published 2011 Global Assessment Report by the UNDP, Bangladesh was found to be one of the countries 'most vulnerable' to disasters.

Tens of thousands of HIV-affected households in Asia are facing ‘irreversible poverty’ because of the cost of living with the disease, with women and children hardest hit, a UN report said Thursday

Government of the Maldives showcased its success story in ozone protection and achieving carbon neutrality in a side event organized by the Ministry of Housing and Environment of Maldives in cooper

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New Delhi: Accepting that development of sanitation facilities in the country has been a “disaster”, rural development minister Jairam Ramesh on Wednesday suggested enhanced government funding to d

New Delhi: Union rural development minister Jairam Ramesh found an occasion for Modi-bashing at the release of UNDP’s Human Development Index report, 2011, on Wednesday, saying there had been “retr