The UK government's Department of International Development (DFID) has provided an assistance of Rs 3,661 crore for various projects in India to find long term solutions to poverty , British Deputy

Heralding a more

A significantly large delegation of Pakistani parliamentarians, led by Speaker of the National Assembly Chaudhry Amir Hussain, will attend Asia region's first Commonwealth Parliamentary Association

Britain still has a "low pay culture" despite Labour's efforts to help families escape the poverty trap, a new report warned today. The study by the Joseph Rowntree Foundation found that although

"India's development success will play a critical role in attaining the millennium development goal of halving poverty by 2015," World Bank president James D Wolfensohn said prior to his two-day

Financial assistance from donor countries was to have been one of the key components of the strategy to meet the goal of education for all by 2015. Unfortunately, a Unesco report now shows that both

American economist Jeffrey Sachs has a novel way to tackle African poverty: shower more aid on the world's poorest continent. Africa is desperately poor despite being the recipient of tens of

A school for the hearing impaired sets an example in using alternate energy

In October 2004, the 2000MW Lower Subansiri hydel project, proposed to come up on the Assam Arunachal Pradesh border, received the final clearance Act, 1980. The ministry of environment and Forests