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

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