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Rangarajan to head panel for reviewing poverty line

The Planning Commission on Thursday constituted an expert group headed by C Rangarajan to review the...

Ten lakh SHGs to be formed in Bihar in 5 years

Ten lakhs Self Help Groups would be formed in Bihar in next the five years to weed out poverty.

One third Indians think they are `suffering`

Gallup classified respondents as thriving, struggling or suffering according to how they rated their...

Ramesh attacks MPs questioning plan panel`s definition of poor

Jairam Ramesh said members raising the issue were probably only aware of Sachin Tendulkar, not Sures...

Controversy over poverty line "overdone": WB Prez

Lauding India for managing to reduce poverty, WB Prez Robert Zoellick said that controversy over pov...

Plan panel`s definition of poverty a joke: BJP

Slamming the Planning Commission over its controversial definition of poverty, the BJP has said th...

Lords committee attacks British aid to India

The issue of sending aid to an increasingly prosperous India provoked public fury in February in Bri...

People in Pakistan ‘poor’, lawmakers `royal`

Balochistan Minister for Home and Tribal Affairs owns over 24,000 acres of land.

Need new estimates of poverty: PM

PM Manmohan Singh Thursday said a government panel would devise new methods to assess poverty in the...

World Bank says no plan to trim lending to India

The World Bank will not reduce its financial assistance at the moment to India for poverty alleviati...

Uproar in LS over Plan panel`s poverty estimates

The Lok Sabha was adjourned today following uproar over the fresh poverty estimates released by th...

Poverty data: Ploy to deceive poor, say RS members

Opposition parties today raised the issue of Planning Commission reducing the number of people liv...

Not the time to end aid to India: Britain

Britain on Sunday clarified that it has no immediate plans to end its aid programme to India.

`Climate change and poverty major problems`

Renowned British economist Nicolas Stern today said climate change and poverty posed two major chall...

Poverty and crime linked, shows Tihar data

Poverty and crime are linked to each other, reveal statistics from Asia`s largest jail -- Tihar Pr...

Russia should solve poverty problem by 2020: Putin

Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin is generally considered a shoo-in for a new presidential term ...

AP gives 1L new LPG connections to BPL families

Andhra Pradesh government sanctioned additional one lakh LPG connections to families living below po...

PDS inefficiency plagues poverty maths

Amidst claims by govt on poverty reduction, comes the disclosure that food grain allocation under TP...

At UN climate meet, India asks for right to grow

Environment Minister Jayanthi Natarajan Saturday made an emotional appeal to the rich countries, as...

2.6 million Afghans at risk of hunger from drought

Already living in poverty in a country at war, many have been left destitute by the drought, which h...

China raises poverty line, boosting official poor

China has raised its official poverty line, causing more people to qualify as poor despite its boomi...

China: 67 mn rural poor uplifted from poverty

China Wednesday said 67.34 million rural people, more than the population of France, were lifted fro...

India needs innovation to address poverty: PM

Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Tuesday said the country needs creativity and innovation to addre...

Extreme poverty rises in US: Study

The number of Americans living in extreme poverty has grown by more than one-third over the past de...

Govt announces Rs 1000 crore anti-poverty scheme

The Assam government on Monday announced plans of launching a Rs 1000 crore anti-poverty scheme.

Mother of three commits suicide

A 32-year-old mother of three children committed suicide at her home in north Delhi as she was depre...

Sonia to take up poverty issue amid govt flip-flop

The Sonia Gandhi-led National Advisory Council will meet on October 21 and possibly come out with it...

Call all-party, CMs meet to discuss poverty: BJP

The BJP on Tuesday alleged that the ongoing debate on poverty has shown that the UPA government is ...

Reconsider norms for assessing poverty: Maya to PM

Expressing concern over the Centre`s proposed norms for assessment of poverty line, Uttar Pradesh ...

‘No income cap on beneficiaries of govt schemes’

Union Rural Development Minister Jairam Ramesh and Planning Commission Deputy Chairman Montek Singh ...

Montek meets PM amid controversy over poverty data

Planning Commission Deputy Chairman Montek Singh Ahluwalia met PM amid controversy over the panel`s ...

Row over poverty; NDC meeting put off by a week

Amid public outcry over Plan panel`s definition of poverty, the government has decided to postpone ...

Poverty line not to impact socio-economic census

The ongoing enumeration for a socio-economic census in the country will not be affected by the pover...

PM has no knowledge of poverty: BJP

BJP demanded an immediate meeting of all chief ministers and leaders of various political parties t...

Red Cross seeks revision of BPL classification

World`s largest humanitarian organisation IFRC on Thursday suggested revisiting classification of BP...

Opposition parties slam Govt on BPL affidavit

Congress expressed its readiness to consider all sensitive inputs over the issue while making a pl...

Planning Comm affidavit `not the last word`

Sonia Gandhi led National Advisory Council member Aruna Roy has also lashed out at the move saying t...

US poverty rate swells to nearly 1 in 6: Census

The ranks of America`s poor swelled to almost 1 in 6 people last year as long-term unemployment left...

USD 7.7 mn Japanese aid for Nepal to fight poverty

Japan has granted USD 7.7 million to help Nepal reduce poverty and child malnutrition.

‘Its time everyone takes anti-corruption pledge’

Povery-free Kerala project of supplying one rupee per kg rice is a 100-days programme announced by t...

5,000 women pulled out of abject poverty

A project with an objective of providing a better life to the poorest of poor women has so far hel...

Rural migration behind growing urban poverty: Govt

Migration of people from rural areas to towns and cities is one of the reasons why poverty has inc...

Slums represent face of urban poverty: President

Slums represent the face of urban poverty and the sprawling divide that exists in cities, Presiden...

320 mn in India, China to come out of poverty: UN

As many as 320 million people in India and China are expected to come out of extreme poverty in the...

Plan to supply subsidized food in Jangalmahal

As part of a comprehensive plan to tackle economic deprivation in Maoist-hit Jangalmahal, the new We...

MEMPA takes lead in poverty alleviation

The efforts of Mission for Elimination of Poverty in Municipal areas (MEPMA) in East Godavari distri...

`Raise target limit of homes under Indira Awaas`

The Maharashtra government has urged the Centre to increase the target of houses to be constructed f...

Unemployment, poverty due to wrong governance: BJP

Observing that politics should be an instrument for socio-economic transformation, BJP president N...

BPL survey to begin from Tripura from June 29

The nationwide survey of people living Below Poverty Line would start from Tripura from June 29.

India does first urban poverty survey

The first survey to determine how many poor live in India`s urban areas will start early in June.

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