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Of a total of 38 suicide deaths in Ghaziabad this year, as many as 14 have occurred as a result of the victims' inability to make ends meet, according to the police records. Social scientists say the

It's a classic case of irony with its dictionary meaning. President APJ Abdul Kalam declared in Johannesburg that India would provide monetary help of Rs 50 crore to some extremely poor African

The definition of poverty is being updated to take into account the changes in lifestyles and the consumption pattern of people over the last 30 years. Redefining poverty may result in an increase

Two-thirds of South Asians are living in poverty and only a redistribution of benefits of economic growth will lift them out of the rut, an Asian Development Bank (ADB) official said. "On the basis

State Bank Governor(Pakistan) Dr Ishrat Husain asked the donor agencies to refrain from direct funding to social sector organisations for poverty reduction as they cannot go beyond certain limits

In the beginning of November 2003, the us Food and Drug Administration (fda) released the findings of its risk assessment study on whether the meat and milk from cloned animals and their progeny

Planning Commission deputy chairman KC Pant has said that poverty reduction efforts should focus on states having high incidence of poverty like Bihar, MP, Orissa and UP. Inaugurating the retreat on

Poverty reduction efforts should focus on Bihar, Madhya Pradesh, Orissa and Uttar Pradesh, Planning Commission Deputy Chairman K C Pant said in New Delhi. Poverty projections suggested that unless

In the past 50 years, two-thirds of Kashmir's wetlands have vanished. So says a billborad outside Haigam conservation reserve, a premier wetland in the Baramulla district of Jammu and Kashmir tht is

Barnardo's, the children's charity, was forced to axe a pre-Christmas advertising campaign yesterday after the Advertising Standards Authority ruled the content to be too shocking. The ads,

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