"The biggest reason for rural backwardness is that we have continued dividing the urban with the rural," said Minister for Petroleum and Natural Gas and Panchayati Raj Mani Shankar Aiyar, while
The Group of Eight leading industrial countries has promised to do much more for the world's poorest countries at this week's summit. Yet such promises have proved vaporous in the past. The G8 should
The Prime Minister, Dr Manmohan Singh has stated that his Government would adopt policies that are "pro-growth, pro-investment and pro-employment" and that the overriding priority will be "to do
Hema Tandi, the five-year-old female child who hit national headlines three years ago for being allegedly sold by her parents for Rs 5,000, is no more. The cruel hands of illness and poverty have
The Delhi High Court directed the Delhi government to frame a comprehensive policy to ensure that no heavy vehicle which has more than four tyres enters Delhi. Justice Vijendra Jain and justice R S
Sustaining high growth rates and reducing poverty in India should be the main priorities of policy for its new Government, according to an International Monetary Fund. The challenge looking ahead is
Nandan Nilekani, CEO and president of Infosys, kicked off the Indian contribution to the two-day Global Conference on Scaling Up Poverty Reduction in Shanghai on how the private sector can contribute
Increased trade has not led to reductions in poverty among the world's poorest countries and will not do so without an overhaul of development strategies, the United Nations Conference on Trade and
Bangladesh authorities have arrested the executive director of one of the country's largest nongovernmental oranization,s Proshika, on charges of corruption. The Bureau of Anti- Corruption has