A Pakistan’s UN Mission statement Pakistan foreign minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi met World Bank president Jim Yong Kim at the UN on Monday. read more

In June this year, two consortiums, of three and four agencies, qualifying the technical bids had levelled allegations of ineligibility against each other, after which the Chandigarh transport department sent the report to the World Bank. read more

Ban, Microsoft founder Gates and Georgieva will be in the Netherlands on October 16 for a conference officially launching the commission. read more

No clarity on funds; project, aimed at improving connectivity in Mumbai Metropolitan Region, is stuck; World Bank to give decision by December read more

The technology is most often associated with cryptocurrencies -- like bitcoin -- which often raise suspicion about their reliability and volatility, as well as their use for criminal purposes. read more

To dissociate economics from other attributes that influence how an individual, society and country evolve, see it in isolation as the only benchmark of growth and well-being, is cynical and myopic and a harbinger of problems. read more

The core question India needs to address: how to reduce the generation of waste in an economy, which thrives on spiraling consumption and production read more

Aakansha Pande (37), a US citizen, was senior health economist at the World Bank where she focused on countries in the Middle East and North Africa. . read more

The post, titled ‘The Congress Gave Slogans to Rural India - Prime Minister Modi Gave Resources,’ followed the release of a World Bank report that said India had become the world’s sixth largest economy. read more

Junaid Ahmad, country­director, World Bank, says South Asian countries including India have the worst managed cities in the world because there is no answer of who is managing cities read more

The latest World Bank report said that the Indian economy has become world’s sixth-biggest economy, pushing France to seventh place. The new calculations were arrived on the basis of Indian economy’s performance in 2017. read more

Fared poorly on reform evidence score, but performed better in user feedback; ranking based on last year’s info, things looking up, says dept; 201 reforms had been implemented in the state read more

Rajasthan has slipped from the eighth position in 2016-17 to the ninth position this year. read more

Modi said that he is fortunate to get guidance on any issue concerning farmers from Prakash Singh Badal, ‘who dedicated his life for farmers and knows their problems’. read more

The Supreme Court on Wednesday said protecting the Taj Mahal had become a “hopeless cause” and from July 31 it will hold daily hearings on how to protect the monument from pollution. “Either you shut it, demolish it or restore it,” said the court, expressing dissatisfaction at the Ministry of Environment and Forest’s response on how to protect the monument.

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