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

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,

The work relating to multi-crore Chennai Water Supply Augmentation Project-I (CWSAP-I) is nearing completion and it will be over by May next year, said Minister for Local Administration M C Sampath.

The UPA government today decided to move forward on its commitment to give a human face to its governance by redefining the

Poverty reduction in India is an unsung success story, unsung because of some power interest groups' interests. The World Bank believes that poverty in India is 35 percent: official government of