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India On A Mission To Eradicate Poverty: Modi At BRICS Summit 04 September 2017
India On A Mission To Eradicate Poverty: Modi At BRICS Summit:- Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi lauded trust in people-to-people exchanges on Monday saying that such intermingling builds stronger ties, deepens understanding. Addressing the Plenary Session at the 9th...
Keywords: Modi At BRICS Summit, Women Empowerment, Plenary Session, Women Empowerment
Read MorePoverty level in India declines: report 20 March 2012
Poverty ratio in Himachal Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra, Orissa, Sikkim, Tamil Nadu, Karnataka and Uttarakhand has declined by about 10 percentage points and more. The number of poor in India has declined by 7.3 percentage points to 29.8 per cent...
Keywords: marginal declines, rural-urban price differential, Tendulkar Committee report, specific urban poverty lines
Read MoreVenkaiah Naidu takes charge 28 May 2014
BJP leader Venkaiah Naidu took charge as union minister of Urban Development, Housing and Urban Poverty Alleviation and Parliamentary Affairs short while ago. A day after taking oath as minister Venkaiah took the charge.
Keywords: Housing and Urban Poverty Alleviation, Venkaiah Naidu took charge as union minister, Venkaiah Naidu Takes orthVenkaiah Naidu takes oath as union minister, union minister of Urban Development
Read MoreBudget provides impetus to affordable Housing: Minister 17 March 2012
She also said that these steps will go a long way in actualizing the growth of housing sector in general and affordable housing sector in particular, in the country.. Construction services relating to residential dwelling and low cost mass housing...
Keywords: Minister of Housing & Urban Poverty Alleviation and Culture, Credit Guarantee Trust Fund, ECB, Credit Guarantee Trust Fund
Read MoreIlliteracy costs India over $ 5,300 crore a year 18 April 2012
Literates constituted 74 per cent of the total population in India aged seven and above, and illiterates form 26 per cent, as per the provisional data of the 2011 census. World Literacy Foundation pointed out in its report titled 'Economic...
Keywords: shackles of poverty, functional illiteracy, functional illiteracy, World Literacy Foundation
Read MoreArcher in poverty, disgrace to the hosts of common wealth games 29 March 2012
A pathetic story is there behind most sports personalities who have got laurels and have been neglected. Well the case excludes cricket, and other popular sports. Sometimes abject poverty drives people to the brinks of life. There have been several...
Keywords: Jharkhand Archer, Poverty, Bow for sale., Bow for sale.
Read MoreUnemployment woes plague US 29 July 2013
As American dream continues to elude the countrymen and economic gloom sets in, an astonishing ratio of four out of five U.S adults are finding themselves at the helm of poverty and unemployment. According to the survey findings, the abysmal...
Keywords: poverty and unemployment, US towards unemployment, unemployment, US inching towards unemployment
Read MoreAir pollution and poverty effects child IQ 30 April 2015
Do you know that kids IQ levels are affected by pollution and poverty? It was proved by the study conducted by the New York researchers at Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children. The research was carried out on 276 mother-child pairs...
Keywords: air pollution effect on children, air pollution effect on children, reasons that effect child IQ, poverty effects children IQ
Read MoreHeat wave toll reaches 524 27 May 2013
In the last three days the scorching sun has reached such intensity that it could manage to suck the life out of at least 440 people taking the total death toll due to the heat wave to 524 in the...
Keywords: below poverty line, sunstroke symptoms, sunstroke deaths, sunstroke symptoms
Read MoreBangaru Talli 20 June 2013
One of the two prestigious Schemes of the Government of AP 'Bangaru Thalli' that is a Girl Child Promotion and Empowerment Bill was passed yesterday after the main opposition party TDP leaders walked out in protest. The Chief Minister...
Keywords: CM Kiran Kumar Reddy, AP Assembly, Below Poverty Lines (BPL), Minister for Child Welfare
Read MoreNew below poverty line Yardstick is to be implemented 21 November 2012
It seems the definition of below poverty line in India is going to be changed soon . In the wake of the Planning Commission's controversial definition of poverty last year, a new panel is likely to be formed to consider...
Keywords: jairam ramesh, suresh tendulkar committee, secc, new bpl yardstick
Read MoreChild marriage is mortifying! 31 May 2013
Ratnarashi had to undergo distress yet she never turned back Ratnarashi Pande who happens to be a woman from Bhopal known to have unyieldingly fought as well have won a court war for all child bride victims the right to...
Keywords: bharatiya janata party, madhya pradesh news, crime news, government service
Read More30% Poor Children Live in India: WBG & UNICEF 05 October 2016
According to a new report by the World Bank Group and UNICEF, 30 per cent of almost 385 million children living in extreme poverty are from India.The report Ending Extreme Poverty: A Focus on Children said "children are more than...
Keywords: UNICEF, poverty, poverty, poverty
Read MoreSchool Principal gets arrested in Bihar 24 July 2013
Police on Wednesday seized the head of a school in eastern India where 23 students died following behind eating food contaminated with pesticide. Mr Sujeet Kumar, police chief of Saran district in Bihar state where the children died expressed that...
Keywords: bihar, poverty-stricken village, mass poisoning in bihar, national news update.
Read MoreAP Govt Withdraws NTR Vaidya Seva Cover For Poor 31 August 2017
AP Govt Withdraws NTR Vaidya Seva Cover For Poor:- The NTR Vaidya Seva for poor patients has been withdrawn by the AP Government. The medical treatment in Hyderabad hospitals is availed by the poor patients through this seva. But, the...
Keywords: NTR Vaidya Seva Trust, AP Govt, NTR Vaidya Seva Trust, NTR Vaidya Seva Trust
Read More3 out of 10 Indians are poor 07 July 2014
The Rangarajan Panel on the measurement of poverty reported to the Central government that three out of ten Indians are poor and also stated that people spending below Rupees 47 in cities are considered as poor while in rural areas...
Keywords: UPA Government, 3 out of 10 Indians are poor, Indian Poverty, Indian Poverty Report
Read MoreProminent global anti-poverty push takes place! 01 July 2013
Notwithstanding economic crises as well as diminishing aid, the UN announced on Monday huge progress had been made towards meeting the so-called Millennium Development Goals, including its bid to striking violently world hunger in half intermediate to 1990 and 2015....
Keywords: millennium goals, millennium goals, striking violently world hunger, millennium goals
Read MoreUnemployment paralyzed the U.S.! 25 June 2013
Unemployment accompanied by homelessness paralyzed the U.S.! Experts survey brought into prominence that undoubtedly things are getting worse. The Southwest has been hit particularly hard wherein 30 percent of New Mexico's children are living in poverty due to an overwhelming...
Keywords: unemployment paralyzed the u.s., unemployment in usa, children's action alliance in phoenix, unemployment paralyzed the u.s.
Read MoreIf media supports, poverty is not a question 08 April 2015
Loksabha speaker Sumithra Mahajan opined that there should be an self control for media.The speaker who attended the common wealth parliamentary association held at Vishakhapatnam commented on the media in this way.She said that media should be a perfect bridge...
Keywords: Loksabha, Chandrababu Naidu, Chandrababu Naidu, Venkaiah Naidu
Read MoreEmployment scheme for urban educated unemployed 03 May 2012
The following nodal training institutes are selected : Regional Centre for Urban and Environmental Studies (RCUES), Hyderabad; Human Settlement Management Institute (HSMI), New Delhi; Regional Centre for Urban and Environmental Studies (RCUES), Lucknow; Regional Centre for Urban and Environmental Studies...
Keywords: Kumari Selja, Ministry of Housing & Urban Poverty Alleviation, Ministry of Housing & Urban Poverty Alleviation, urban poor
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