New Delhi, India and Norway agreed to work in close cooperation on the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and the ocean economy following delegation-level talks headed by Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his Norwegian counterpart Erna Solberg here on Tuesday. “The Sustainable Development Goals match India’s growth targets,” Modi said[Read More…]
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Four reasons why India can look forward to 2018
The seeds of many positive changes were sown in 2017 and could bring news to cheer Indians in 2018. Here’s a look at four positives. The renewed fight against TB: The government, in March 2017, increased its focus on tuberculosis (TB) — a preventable, airborne infectious disease that killed 423,000[Read More…]
Education for all a distant dream for the next 50 years: UN
In an extensive report, the United Nations on Tuesday confirmed that the world will miss deadline for ensuring ‘secondary education for all children’ by more than 50 years. The goal was agreed as part of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) – an ambitious plan to end poverty, hunger, advance equality[Read More…]