National Alliance of People's Movement (NAPM) activists today slammed the river-linking project managers for being

The Tamil Nadu Government has announced two new schemes for comprehensive development of and poverty reduction in all the villages in the state. Presenting the Budget for 2003-2004 in the Assembly,

The Maharashtra state government filed a petition in the Bombay High Court, asking for more time for transporters to phase out their eight-year-old vehicles or convert them to compressed natural gas

The World Bank in its draft 'Pakistan Public Expenditure Review' (PPER) has demanded of the government increase in spending on poverty alleviation, improving social service delivery at local level,

Reclamation of waste land through integrated use may prove an effective means for poverty alleviation in rain fed areas including Potohar (Pakistan). Vegetable farming, household poultry and off-farm

The SC ordered the tagging of cases against soft drinks pending before it. The SC was responding to a petition seeking a ban on the sale of 12 soft drinks which were found to contain a certain

An Israeli women gave birth to healthy twins from 12- year old frozen embroyos, the world's longest period of freezing before a successful doctor said. The boy and girl were born nine months ago to a

President APJ Abdul Kalam has asked the government to meet the target of a hunger-free India by August 15, 2007 through the implementation of the PURA project. He has set the target for raising the

The Scheduled Areas and Scheduled Tribes Commission which stressed on peace for development in tribal areas would submit a report on the implementation of the tribal welfare schemes in Tripura to

The interim Budget for the coming fiscal, presented on Tuesday, promised to include 50,000 more BPL (below-the-poverty-line) families in the existing Antyodaya Anna Yojna. Finance Minister Jaswant