The U.S. will sponsor a United Nations resolution condemning China's human rights record, a move that China rebutted by cataloging what it considers rights abuses in the

Unemployment and poverty in rural areas of Bihar and Uttar Pradesh have forced a majority of over 50,000 destitute in the Capital to live on the city's streets, found a study conducted by ActionAid

The Indian government has decided to get tough with states on implementation of rural development schemes with some lief Bihar and Orissa either not utilizing funds or diverting them for other

First came the interest rate cut perk up sentiments. Then Balco selloff. Now comes the reduction in overall poverty levels from 36 per cent in 1993-94 to 26.1 per cent now. As the finance minister

The country's detailed poverty data, made public today, has shown up several surprises. The strife-torn state of Jammu and Kashmir has emerged as the most prosperous state with merely 3.48 per cent

The population of those below the poverty line in Andhra Pradesh has been estimated at 119.01 lakhs in 1999-2000 by the Planning commission. According to the data released by the commission on

While the Economic Survey is putting the poverty figures at 28 per cent, it will also state that the figures are not comparable with those of the 1993-94 large sample survey of the National Sample

The UN Under Secretary General and UNDP Administrator Mr. Mark Mallock Brown has said that the concept of Knowledge centre and bio villages operated by the M. S. Swaminathan Research Foundation in

After a lot of debate on the poverty figures thrown up by the 1998-99 large-sample survey of the National Sample Survey Organisation (NSSO), the Planning Commission has finally decided to accept the

Poverty reduction in rural areas is a complex and many-sided task.It's something that requires sustained commitment since there are no quick fixes, no easy solutions. And given the right kind of