With Maharashtra victory in the bag, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh is now planning his first real public interface on October 28

With 300 million poor people living on less than $1 a day in India alone, and around a billion worldwide, there are many people, organisations, activists, bureaucrats, government ministries and

The Prime Minister, Dr Manmohan Singh, on Monday inaugurated the Village Resource Centre (VRC) project, a joint effort of the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) and the M. S. Swaminathan

A major anti poverty for Bihar , parts of Orissa and the most backward districts fo the country is being readied by the Centre. It is learnt to have been cleared by the Union Cabinet at its meeting

If poverty is a selective term, the Indian poor are perhaps the worst loss across emerging economies. In dollar terms, at $0.21 per capita per day, India's official poverty line threshold is among

It's not free grain and mobile medical teams that the tribals of Shahabad and Kishanganj block in the poverty-stricken Baran district of Rajasthan are asking for. Give them dignity and the right to

The Bangladesh government decided to cancel the fitness certificate of all vehicles emitting black smoke in the capital as also across the country in the interest of environment conservation. A

Western districts are better placed than the rest of the State in terms of groundwater table. In this belt, the positiion as recorded by the Central Groundwater Board in late August was much better

Asian Development Bank (ADB) is assisting Nepal a grant sum of US $200,000 to make service delivery in the agriculture and livestock sectors more responsive to poor and disadvantaged groups,

The proportion of people living on less than $1 a day decreased from 40 percent to 21 percent of the global population between 1981 and 2001 , says the World Bank's latest annual report. World Bank