The UN ‘Human Development Report 2016′, released on Tuesday by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), placed India at 131 rank out of 188 countries in the global index. The low rank for India shows how our liberalization has failed to uplift the condition of one third of the population. On health front, the overall life expectancy at birth grew ...

  Money is not the sole reason to be happy but India cannot bask upon its social cohesiveness and political leadership as the World Happiness Report 2017 has put it in 122nd rank, behind Pakistan and Nepal. It has also jumped from 118 last year to 122 this year. The report, released on Monday at the United Nations, ranked 155 ...

India has moved up slightly in the graft watchdog Transparency International‘s corruption perception index for 2016 by two points with a score of 40 out of 100, compared to 38 last year. “India s ongoing poor performance with a score of 40 reiterates the state s inability to effectively deal with petty corruption as well as large-scale corruption scandals. The ...