India not likely to meet millennium goals by 2015: Ramesh

October 13th, 2009 UNITED NATIONS - Noting that developing countries had been most affected by the global economic crisis, India has urged rich nations to honour their pledges and keep up the stimulus and other efforts to spur their economies. On its part "India remains firmly committed to realising the vision set out in Cairo 15 years ago and to fulfilling the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) by 2015," Shashi Tharoor, minister of state for external affairs, told the UN General Assembly Monday.

October 13th, 2009 NEW DELHI - By 2015, India should include calculations of how it was using up its air, water, soil, forests and other natural resources when preparing its national plan, Minister of State for Environment and Forests Jairam Ramesh suggested here Tuesday. Releasing a report on the economics of ecosystems and biodiversity, Ramesh rued that natural resources were not taken into account in the planning process due to questions about methodology.

September 25th, 2009 Poor nations want compensation for economic crisisUNITED NATIONS — Developing nations are urging the industrialized world to acknowledge its responsibility for the global economic and climate crises and to compensate them for the damages these have caused. Yemeni Foreign Minister Abu-Bakr al-Qirbi, who chairs the Group of 77 that represents 132 developing counties, says the U.N.

September 25th, 2009 NEW DELHI - The UN Millennium Campaign has just released figures which show that unless rich countries marshal additional resources at the ongoing G20 summit, they are likely to deliver $33 billion less aid than promised to the poor countries which are hardest hit by the global economic crisis. At the same time, packages intended to help poor countries address the crisis might drive them deeper into debt, a spokesperson of the campaign said over e-mail.

September 17th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Recent talks between India and China on saving the critically endangered tiger were "not a great success", Minister for Environment and Forests Jairam Ramesh admitted here Thursday. The talks were held during the minister's recent visit to Beijing.

September 2nd, 2009 NEW DELHI - Minister of State for Environment and Forests, Jairam Ramesh, said on Wednesday that India is looking forward to a fair and equitable agreement at Copenhagen meet on climate change. "We are definitely looking forward to Copenhagen.

August 4th, 2009 NEW DELHI - India has plans to launch a satellite to study the impact of the greenhouse gas emissions in the country. Minister of State for Environment and Forests, Jairam Ramesh on Tuesday informed in Rajya Sabha, dscussions on the project, estimated to cost 300 crore rupees, are going on with the scientists in Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) and other agencies, Ramesh informed Japan and Europe have launched such satellites.

August 1st, 2009 NEW DELHI - Minister of State for Environment and Forests Jairam Ramesh has said that India would spend 200 million dollars to protect its forests and will announce how much carbon emission is being captured by its green cover. Talking to reporters here on Friday, he said the money would go into conserving and restoring unique vegetation, controlling forest fires and strengthening forestry infrastructure, among other goals.

July 7th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Top United Nations official Deirdre Boyd on Tuesday said that women's political representation in the local bodies of India is more than the entire elected women representatives of the world. Deirdre Boyd, Country Director of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) in India, said this during a function to mark the release of 'The Millennium Development Goals (MGD) Report 2009' at New Delhi on Tuesday.

July 6th, 2009 GENEVA - The global economic crisis will likely hamper efforts to reach the Millennium Development Goals, which, in part, were already lagging behind the targets, the UN warned in a report released Monday. Aid to the world's poorest countries was falling short of pledges made by richer states, and the recession would probably cut into assistance budgets further.

June 27th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Cooking gas connections for 75 percent of the population, CNG network expansion to 200 cities, SMS booking for gas cylinders and biometric cards for kerosene users are some of the elements of the petroleum ministry's vision paper for 2015. The document, Vision-2015 for Consumer Satisfaction and Beyond", was finalised Friday night at a conclave of chief executives of public sector oil companies in Goa.

April 24th, 2009 World Bank: Globe bracing for more povertyWASHINGTON — The global economic crisis has stymied the international community's effort to halve extreme poverty by 2015 and meet other goals to reduce hunger, fight disease and get young children to school, the World Bank warned on Friday. A report released in conjunction with this week's meeting of the bank and International Monetary Fund in Washington said the financial meltdown is impeding efforts to achieve most of the eight U.N.

March 24th, 2009 MUMBAI - Dr. Ramesh Madav, Chairman, Enbitech and CEO of Terracon Ecotech Pvt Ltd, successfully tested the most modern Tree Census Methods, using GPS and GIS.

January 18th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Indian Inc. needs to shift its focus from trade to investment in order to compete with China, Minister of State for Commerce and Power Jairam Ramesh said here Monday.

January 5th, 2009 NEW DELHI - The global economic turmoil poses a grave threat to developing nations even though their contribution to the cause of the crisis is negligible, External Affairs Minister Pranab Mukherjee said here Tuesday. 'Given the magnitude of the global financial and economic crisis today, the developing countries may become its worst victims even though they were not the cause of the crisis,' Mukherjee said while delivering his address at the general session of the Afro-Asian Rural Development Organisation (AARDO).