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Environment

The Year of Sustainable Development

The year 2015 will be our generation?s greatest opportunity to move the world toward sustainable development. Three high-level negotiations between July and December can re...

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Health

More than 70 per cent of HIV-AIDS patients not diagnosed

More than 70 percent of people suffering from HIV-AIDS are not diagnosed and are not aware that they are suffering from the dreaded disease. I S Gilada, president of AIDS s...

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Sustainable Development

Sustainable development goals: eight ways to make reality match ambition

Next year, governments will agree a new global development framework of breathtaking ambition. We already know the likely shape of the sustainable development goals (SDGS) ...

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Environment

Lima: Climate Change Optimism Returns to Earth

The Lima Climate Change Conference (COP20), held under the auspices of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), concluded in the early hours of S...

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Sustainable Development

80% of smokeless tobacco users in India, Bangladesh: report

The first-ever report on the global use and public health impact of smokeless tobacco has found that more than 300 million people in at least 70 countries use the carcinoge...

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Sustainable Development

Women?s empowerment key to ending violence

DOREEN NAWA, Lusaka UNDER the banner “Peace begins at home: End violence, empower women” Gender Links is calling for a radical shift in approaches to ending vio...

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Festivals

TERI And UTC Set Up Center Of Excellence For Energy Efficient Buildings In India

New Delhi, December 17: The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI) and United Technologies Corporation (UTC) today launched the Center of Excellence for Ene...

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Environment

TERI And UTC Set Up Center Of Excellence For Energy Efficient Buildings In India

New Delhi, December 17: The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI) and United Technologies Corporation (UTC) today launched the Center of Excellence for Ene...

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Sustainable Development

Sanitation and Sewage Disposal In India

An estimated US$ 10 billion will be spent on the Mission over the next five years. Targets identified include cleaning the environment, construction of pubic and school lat...

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Environment

US and India to announce joint climate change action during Obama visit

America and India will unveil joint efforts to fight climate change when Barack Obama visits New Delhi next month, as the US tries to keep up the momentum of international ...

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