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India's education malaise has all the hallmarks of a develop...

If you want a glimpse of the challenges facing India's education system, there is no better vantage point than Rajpur primary school. Located in the tribal belt of the Shahabad hills of Rajasthan, the school serves some of India's [...]

Posted On : Feb, 22 2012 | Comments : 0

India needs creativity, innovation to address poverty: PM

Prime Minister Manmohan Singh Tuesday said the country needs creativity and innovation to address the problems of poverty, health and environment. "We have made innovations in areas such as space technology, atomic energy and auto [...]

Posted On : Nov, 15 2011 | Comments : 0

Poverty a reality but India deserve F1: Mallya

NOIDA (India): Force India co-owner Vijay Mallya on Friday fiercely defended India's right to host a Formula One Grand prix race, saying the country's economic growth was as much a reality as its poverty. Critics have flayed th [...]

Posted On : Oct, 29 2011 | Comments : 0

India draws poverty battle lines

India's top governmental economic advisory body is backing away from a new official poverty cut-off rate of 32 rupees (US$0.64) per day after it caused a major furor. On September 20, Planning Commission deputy chairman Montek Sing [...]

Posted On : Oct, 04 2011 | Comments : 0

'India's poverty level impractical for Punjab'

The Central government's affidavit in the Supreme Court declaring those spending Rs 32 per person per day and Rs 26 in rural areas as above poverty line has provoked politicians of all hues in poll-bound Punjab to demand a higher rate [...]

Posted On : Sep, 23 2011 | Comments : 0

'Poverty has not reduced for poor in India'

Poverty has reduced comparatively at a lower rate for the socially disadvantaged sections of the society despite fairly high growth sustained by the country during the 11th Five Year Plan. This was stated by economist and chairman of I [...]

Posted On : Sep, 04 2011 | Comments : 0

Child poverty rate up in Indiana, Michigan

Michigan ranks 30th and Indiana ranks 31st in children’s overall health and well-being, according to this year’s national Kids Count report from the Annie E. Casey Foundation. The report came out Tuesday, measuring the 50 s [...]

Posted On : Aug, 19 2011 | Comments : 0

India aid programme 'beset by corruption' - World Bank

The governing coalition spends billions of dollars - more than 2% of its gross domestic product - on helping the poor. But a new World Bank report says aid programmes are beset by corruption, bad administration and under-payments. As an e [...]

Posted On : May, 19 2011 | Comments : 0

China and India Become Major Contributors to Global Poverty ...

Developing countries are on track to meet or get close to key targets for tackling extreme poverty and hunger by 2015, thanks to the rapid economic growth in China and India, the World Bank and International Monetary Fund said on April 1 [...]

Posted On : Apr, 19 2011 | Comments : 0

The Poverty of 'Rich' India

'For to those who have, more will be given, and they will have an abundance' (Mat 13:12). India is one of the developing and emerging global economic powers of the world. Everyone eyes India as it rightly projects to West as an e [...]

Posted On : Dec, 26 2010 | Comments : 0

India, China growth helping developing nations: World Bank

But for the rapid progress made by India and China, the pace of poverty reduction in developing countries would have been still slower after the global economic crisis, according to World Bank’s lead economist. The crisis struc [...]

Posted On : Apr, 27 2010 | Comments : 0

31% of Muslims in India live below poverty line: survey

According to a survey conducted by the National Council for Applied Economic Research (NCAER) and the University of Maryland of the US, the monthly income of nearly one-third of Muslims in India is less than Rs 550. Three out of every 10 [...]

Posted On : Mar, 29 2010 | Comments : 0

Every third Indian under poverty line

The report by economist Suresh Tendulkar used money spent by a person on specific household goods and services to define the poor. People living in the states of Orissa, Bihar and Chhattisgarh were found to be among the poorest, the r [...]

Posted On : Dec, 11 2009 | Comments : 0

Poverty of research in India

Of the four Indians to win the Nobel Prize in science, only one, C V Raman, was awarded for research work done in his own country. Hargobind Khurana, S Chandrashekhar and our newest entrant to the exclusive Nobel Prize club, Venkatraman Ram [...]