The Union Ministry of Rural Development has released Rs 20.36 crore to Andhra Pradesh as the Centre's share in the Prime Minister's programmes for installation of one lakh hand-pumps in water scarce

Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva is looking to firm up his plans for a tax on international transactions to help fight poverty when he meets wwith UN and French leaders this week,

Jharkhand Chief Minister Arjun Munda has launched a scheme for getting girls belonging to families living Below the Poverty Line (BPL) in the state, married. The scheme termed as -Mukhyamantri

It's election season and Minister for Urban Development and Poverty Alleviation Bandaru Dattatreya is concentrating entirely on the latter element. The National Policy for Slums, which has been

Countries last year did barely one-third of the work needed to meet a set of UN goals to fight poverty, hunger and disease by 2015, according to a report released Thursday by the World Economic Forum

In what could be termed as an eye-opener to the stark realities facing the nation today, a recent meeting to review the distribution of yellow cards in different districts revealed that 77-93% of

The long wait will end soon. The Calcutta Urban Services for the Poor (CUSP) is finally rolling out in late-January. State municipal affairs and urban development minister Ashok Bhattacharya told

The Indira Gandhi Water Treatment Plant of the Kolkata Municipal Corporation in Barrackpore, will become one of Asia's largest water treatment plants with the 300 million gallon capacity by the end

A new study by the UN Conference on Trade and Development (Unctad) team in India reveals that Maharashtra, Tamil Nadu, Gujarat, Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh and Punjab are better integrated into the

Over 33 million Indians were added to the ranks of the poor in 2001-02. According to the results of the 57th round of the National Sample Survey, the number of people living below the poverty line