What makes one poor in India

Global Multidimensional Poverty Index 2022 shows lack of access to nutrition, fuel, housing and sanitation keeps millions in poverty

African nations pledge to protect Congo basin forests

The project aims to slow down illegal logging and burning of forests that are vital to indigenous people

Ebola-hit countries to get additional US $5 billion for speedy recovery

Amount pledged at two-day global Ebola meet in New York

Zero maternal death in two former war-torn districts of Sri Lanka

Efforts on to reduce nation's MMR to 24 per 100,000 live births by 2015

India still scores low in human development in UNDP report

It is ranked at 136 along with Equatorial Guinea while Sri Lanka strides ahead

Health millennium goals neglected in Asia-Pacific region: UN report

3 million children below five died in 2010 alone

The new votaries of Forest Rights Act

Is it the upcoming elections that are prompting states to focus on FRA and win hearts of the tribal people? wonders Kumar Sambhav Shrivastava