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In a significant move towards strengthening nursing workforce in India, the Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs has approved establishment of 157 new nursing colleges in co-location with the existing medical colleges established since 2014.
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Before the end of 2024, road infrastructure will be equal to the standard of the USA, said Union Minister of Road Transport & Highways Nitin Gadkari. He was addressing the 95th FICCI Annual convention.
While PM Modi is in Berlin, India and German govts acknowledged their joint responsibility for the protection of the planet and for shared, sustainable and inclusive growth, leaving no-one behind.
NITI Aayog on Monday released the SDG India Index rankings which shows the performance of Indian States in achieving the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) for 2019. Kerala, Himachal Pradesh, Andhra Pradesh, Tamil Nadu and Telangana are proved to be the top performers in the race.
"India is championing a coalition for Disaster Resilient Infrastructure under PM Modi's vision", said MHA Amit Shah while inaugurating the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) Joint Exercise on Urban Earthquake Search and Rescue, in New Delhi.
Despite progress in national prevention strategies, one person dies by suicide every 40 seconds, the World Health Organization’s (WHO) Director-General lamented on Monday, highlighting key findings of the agency’s latest report on global suicide estimates.
Women are today not only the householders but also homemakers. To mark this progress, UN Women released a brand new research report, “Women Progress 2019”.
The fund dedicated Sustainable Development Goals, India-UN Partnership fund will commemorate the 2nd anniversary of the India-UN Development Partnership Funds on June 6.
UN and global partners around the world come together towards reaching the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) by 2030. Now, in this ambitious programme, the new 6 influential public figures joined on board as official SDG Advocates on Thursday.
India’s mission for Environmental issues is also a fuelled with Universal solutions and sustainable development. In 4th United Nations Environment Assembly, significantly for the first time, India piloted two resolutions on important global issues. The UNEA adopted both the resolutions with unanimity to curb single-use plastic by 2030.
“Sustainable development is inclusive development; Sustainable development is a common goal for all world nations, given the unprecedented scale of environmental degradation and its drastic consequences that we have been witnessing,” said Vice President M. Venkaiah Naidu while addressing the inaugural session of World Sustainable Development Summit 2019 at New Delhi today.
“Temperatures are only part of the story. Extreme and high impact weather affected many countries and millions of people”, stated UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres After new data released by the UN World Metrological Organization (WMO) showing the past four years were official “Four warmest on Record”.
The Indian Ministry of Finance, represented by the assistant secretary Dr.C.S. Mohapatra, and Kenji Hiramatsu being Ambassador of Japan to India, exchanged currency today as a base for the development assistance loan citing the three important projects in India. The Government of Japan has committed JICA Official Development Assistance totalling Yen 105.497 billion (=Rs.6668.46 crore approx.) for the three Indian projects.
