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9.55L TB patients adopted under Centre's Ni-Kshay Mitra initiative: Govt

Around 9.55 lakh out of the 9.69 lakh consented tuberculosis patients have been adopted till March 9 under the Centre's Pradhan Mantri TB Mukt Bharat Abhiyaan, the Rajya Sabha was informed on Tuesday. With the goal of achieving Sustainable Development Goals related to tuberculosis by 2025, five years ahead of the global targets, the National TB Elimination programme implements key activities, Minister of State for Health Bharati Pravin Pawar said in a written reply. The activities include state and district specific strategic plan for targeted interventions in high-burden areas, provision of free drugs and diagnostics to TB patients, including for drug-resistant TB, and active tuberculosis case-finding campaign in key vulnerable and co-morbid populations, the minister said. It also include integration with Ayushman Bharat - Health and Wellness Centres to decentralize screening and treatment services closer to the community, private sector engagement, scale-up of molecular diagnosti

'Developing, developed nations must have different goals on sustainability'

India's partnership with the UK and the EU is significant in the global effort to make the planet safer and greener, Piyush Goyal said

To save the planet, consumption patterns need to change: Bhupender Yadav

Unsustainable production and consumption need urgent attention, Union Environment Minister Bhupender Yadav said at a joint India-Denmark forum on Tuesday, adding that the two countries can set an example for the world in achieving climate goals. Speaking at the 'India Denmark: Partners for Green and Sustainable Progress Conference' here, the minister noted that the Indo-Danish Green Strategic Partnership is an appropriate forum to exchange ideas, best practices, knowledge, technology, and capacity building for promoting sustainable lifestyles, not only in Denmark and India, but in Europe and the whole world. Danish Crown Prince Frederik Andr Henrik Christian and Princess Mary Elizabeth were also present at the event. "Unsustainable production and consumption need urgent attention if we are to confront the global environmental and climate change-related challenges facing us today. We need to act fast before it is too late," Yadav said. He said India and Denmark have set very ambit

Chennai's startup Atsuya Technologies named 'Great Place to Work'

Great Place to Work surveys companies globally and conducts research on the characteristics of great workplaces

India may miss 2030 deadline for over half of health SDGs: Lancet study

India is not on target for over 50 per cent of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) indicators related to health and social determinants of health seven years before the 2030 deadline, according to a study published in The Lancet journal. An international team of researchers found that over 75 per cent Indian districts are off target for crucial SDG indicators like access to basic services, poverty, stunting and wasting of children, anaemia, child marriage, partner violence, tobacco use, and modern contraceptive use. For these indicators, more than 75 per cent of the districts were off-target. These districts are concentrated in Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, Jharkhand, Bihar, and Odisha. "India is not on target for 19 of the 33 SDGs indicators ... Because of a worsening trend observed between 2016 and 2021, and assuming no course correction occurs, many districts will never meet the targets on the SDGs even well after 2030," the authors of the study ...

World needs new institutions to drive climate action, SDGs: Amitabh Kant

The world needs new institutions to drive climate action and sustainable development goals (SDGs) as organisations such as the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Bank are not designed to address these challenges, India's G20 Sherpa Amitabh Kant said on Friday. Participating in a discussion on "India's G20 Presidency - Forging Actionable Agenda for Global South" at the Vivekananda International Foundation, Kant talked about the challenges as India holds the presidency of G20 -- an intergovernmental forum comprising 19 countries and the European Union (EU). He said the challenges are "external" and referred to the Ukraine war and the prevailing situation in the West. "We have seen the war going on for one year, we don't know how it will shape up in the coming days. G20 is essentially a consensus building platform," he said. He said geopolitics in Europe is not improving as the Ukraine-Russia war has been going on for a year and is worsening. Kant said G20 is important a

Esri launches interactive mapping tool for state, corporate policymakers

Technology company work with state and central government agencies for administrative functions

India has lot to offer to world in time of crisis: G20 Sherpa Amitabh Kant

"To my mind every crisis has a huge opportunity and G20 in the past has demonstrated the ability to deliver in times of adversity," he said

Ex-UN chief Ban Ki-moon urges for solidarity to tackle global challenges

All countries need to work together to address pressing global challenges and attain the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), former UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said here.

Samsung raises over $10 million to contribute to UNDP for Global Goals

Samsung Electronics announced that it has reached a significant milestone to advance the Sustainable Development Goals, or the Global Goals, with a contribution of more than $10 million to the UNDP

Revisiting international trade's role in domestic development

Unlocking trade-enabled economic development alongside tenets of development including gender equity, income inequality, infrastructure, and other SDGs is very much possible

SDGs like no poverty, zero hunger priority for govt: Jitendra Singh

Union Minister Jitendra Singh on Friday said most of the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) like no poverty, zero hunger and gender equality are the main priority areas of the Modi model of governance. He said India must meet global benchmarks to stand out globally. "As a part of the global world, we are faced with global challenges and the solutions also have to be global," Singh, the Minister of State for Personnel, said. He said since May 2014, under Prime Minister Modi, there was a major paradigm shift in all areas of governance and revolutionary and far-reaching changes ushered in economic policies, defence and strategic matters, infrastructure, rural regeneration and social upliftment of vulnerable sections have laid out a clear roadmap for India to emerge as a frontline nation in the comity of nations by 2047. The minister was delivering the valedictory address of Rajendra Prasad National Memorial Convention at the Indian Institute of Public Administration (IIPA) here,

India's leadership needed to keep G-20 together, says UN official

Affirming support for India's G-20 presidency, UN's deputy secretary general Amina J Mohammed on Tuesday said the country's leadership can help keep the grouping together and speed up work on green goals. Delivering a video message at the G-20 development group meet here, Mohammed welcomed that three developing countries India, Brazil and South Africa - are presiding over the grouping in three consecutive terms, and affirmed the UN's support. "We need India's leadership in this pivotal historic moment to keep the G-20 together and fulfill its promise of delivering a stable and equal world for all, Mohammed said. "We are midway through the sustainable development goals (SDG) target for 2030 and there is a need for doubling down on efforts to put the ambitious back on track. This can be done by arranging sustainable finance solutions, she said, hoping that India's G-20 presidency will find right solutions for the same. "The time has come to infuse new energies into green developme

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Dovetail climate finance with sustainable development goals: India at G20

At the first meeting of the G20 Sherpas, India on Monday proposed dovetailing climate action with sustainable development, making a clear bid to bring issues facing the emerging economies and the global south in sharp focus on the world stage. The discussions on Monday focussed on technological transformation in the digital economy, health and education, green development and India's Lifestyle for Environment (LiFE) initiative. Initiating the discussions, India's G20 Sherpa Amitabh Kant made a strong pitch for working together through hope, harmony and healing to deal with the global challenges, with a focus on developing countries and the global south whose voice is often unheard. At least two officials said the meetings were held in a cordial atmosphere with no direct reference to the ongoing Ukraine conflict. "References to Ukraine were mostly in the context of its impact on global supply chains, high energy costs, and food security," a senior official said. On Sunday, Kant fla

Nearly $600mn of investments pitched to accelerate progress toward SDGs: UN

Colombia, Eswatini and Malawi have pitched nearly $600 million worth of high-impact, investment-ready projects at the SDG Investment Fair

Why G20 summits have become an R & R break for overworked heads of govts

Since the Pittsburgh summit in 2009, G20 Summits have achieved what all such talk shops do - almost nothing

Soluble and relevant: The focus of India's G20 agenda

The government may be tempted to showcase its own achievements. But it must resist this temptation

Need for Indian model of localisation to achieve SDGs 2030: NITI Aayog V-C

NITI Aayog Vice-chairman Suman Bery emphasised the need for the Indian model of localisation to achieve Social Development Goals (SDGs) 2030 set by the United Nations. No poverty, zero hunger, good health and well-being, quality education, gender equality, clean water and sanitation and affordable and clean energy are among the 17 SDGs. Bery said the Indian model of SDG localisation has four pillars: creating institutional ownership, establishing a robust review and monitoring system, developing capacities for integrating SDGs in planning and monitoring and promoting a "whole society approach". Speaking at the ninth Dr Verghese Kurien Memorial Oration at XLRI, Jamshedpur, he said, "In 2015, before the world became divided as it is now due to the Russia-Ukraine war, the world community came together to formulate a shared view of the future of our planet to make it a better place to live in." SDGs were formulated in 2015. Hailing students as the future leaders of India, he asked the

Must not let current developments jeopardise 2030 Agenda: S Jaishankar

India and the United States must not let the current global developments jeopardize the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar said Tuesday. At a joint media appearance with Secretary of State Antony Blinken, Jaishankar said he shared with his American counterpart his experience of interactions during the UN General Assembly about the deep anxieties in the Global South on fuel, food and fertilizers. "The increasing salience of green growth, digital development, and affordable health is today very, very evident," he said. "We must not let current developments jeopardize Agenda 2030 on SDGs (Sustainable Development Goals) or to deflect us from climate action and climate justice commitments," Jaishankar said. Blinken said both the countries are working in the field of climate change. "Catastrophe and adapt to the changes to come because the future of our people and people everywhere depends in no small part on hitting the ambitious targets tha