Page-2 of Topic: Millennium Development Goals

Public Health: Achievements in MDGs and Way Forward to SDGs

The deadline to achieve the millennium development goals (MDGs) expired in 2015. Out of the total 10 health targets, India was able to achieve or get close to...

October 6, 2016

Sustainable Development Goals

The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are a collection of 17 global goals set by the United Nations General Assembly in 2015 for the year 2030. They are part...

November 13, 2015

UN adopts agreement on Sustainable Development Goals

United Nations on 25 September 2015 unanimously adopted an ambitious agreement on the outcome document New Sustainable Development Agenda for the next 15 years i.e. till 2030. The...

September 25, 2015

193 UN members reach agreement on New Sustainable Development Agenda

United Nations 193 member states have reached an agreement on the outcome document New Sustainable Development Agenda for the next 15 years i.e. till 2030. The new agenda...

August 4, 2015

Government to launch Universal Health Assurance Mission

Health Minister Dr. Harsh Vardhan has announced that the government will introduce a universal health insurance programme under UHAM (Universal Health Assurance Mission). The programme will seek to...

September 30, 2014    Government Schemes Current Affairs

China has over 100 million BPL people

While addressing the conference at Rio de Janeiro, the Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao held that China still has more than 100 million people living Below the Poverty Line...

June 23, 2012

5th IBSA summit, Pretoria and Tshwane Declaration

The President of the Republic of South Africa Jacob Zuma, the Prime Minister of the Republic of India Dr. Manmohan Singh, and the President of the Federative Republic...

December 28, 2011    Summits and Conferences

Twenty Point Programme

The Twenty Point Programme was initially launched by Prime Minister Indira Gandhi in 1975 and was subsequently restructured in 1982 and again on 1986. With the introduction of new policies...

May 22, 2009