Twenty one Chief Ministers landed up in New Delhi with their bagful of demands for more funds and bitter complaints on how poverty-alleviation schemes were circumventing them completely. They were in

Governor Lt Gen (Retd) S K Sinha exuded confidence that Jammu and Kashmir would emerge as the country's first state with zero below poverty line (BPL) population by 2007 with successful

With a kitty of about $3 billion assistance for India over the 2005-08 period, the World Bank has sharpened its focus on helping to improve the quality of life for some of the world's poorest

With the list of Chief Ministers seeking the Centre's intervention in river water sharing disputes getting longer, the Union Water Resources ministry will set up an empowered group to look into

The UPA is committed to raise investments in education, health and focus on pro-poor rural development. The goals are in sync with the World Bank's new country assistance strategy, which has set

Emphasising on the UPA agenda of poverty alleviation and improvement of the lives of the rural poor, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh will address all Chief Ministers in a conference to be held in the

The Manmohan Singh Government wants to begin with a clean slate and so it has started the process by "cleaning the slate". The Vajpayee Government's dream project of inter-linking rivers to do away

The primary reason why reports of starvation deaths in Amlasole village in West Bengal's Midnapore district, have caused a furore, is that they have come as a surprise to many. For, whatever its

Rural Development Minister Raghuvansh Prasad Singh has taken the challenge to redefine parameters of the below poverty line (BPL) population, along with modifying and fine-tuning all existing

Delegates to the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (Unctad) this weekend in Sao Paulo will be surprised by the shift in focus from the anti-establishment rhetoric of yesteryear to