Prime Minister Narendra Modi last year said that celebration of 75th Independence day in 2022 will mark the celebration of the dream of New India in an unique way. The Vision document for 2024 prepared by Ministry of Rural Development envisages several big goals.
In what comes as a ray of hope for India, a UN report shows that about 273 million Indians moved out of multidimensional poverty between 2005-06 and 2015-16. With this, the report said, India recorded the largest reduction in the number of people living in this category.
Recalling his father Jagdeep's growing up years, Jaaved Jafferi said the star 'breathed and lived' movies, from a young age till his final moments. Jagdeep, whose real name was Syed Ishtiaq Ahmed Jafri, started his journey in cinema with the 1951 film 'Afsana,' directed by BR Chopra's directorial debut.
Global poverty could rise to over one billion people due to the COVID-19 pandemic and more than half of the 395 million additional extreme poor would be located in South Asia, which would be the hardest-hit region in the world, according to a new report.
Nearly 49 million more people are likely to fall into extreme poverty this year due to the COVID-19 crisis and every percentage point drop in the global GDP would mean hundreds of thousands of additional children will have stunted growth, UN chief Antonio Guterres has warned, calling on countries to act immediately to ensure global food security.
The number of children living in poor households across low and middle-income countries could increase by 86 million to reach 672 million by the end of 2020 due to the economic fallout of the coronavirus pandemic, according to a new study.
The coronavirus pandemic is expected to put over 60 million people into extreme poverty globally, the World Bank has said as it announced emergency operations worth USD 160 billion in 100 developing countries to fight the deadly virus.
The coronavirus pandemic could push an estimated 42-66 million children into extreme poverty and the economic downturn resulting from the outbreak could result in hundreds of thousands of additional child deaths in 2020, the United Nations said on Thursday.
Amid the lockdown, a video surfaced on the internet in which a man in Agra can be seen collecting spilt milk from the street while dogs feed on the same.
The International Labour Organisation (ILO) said in a report today that the COVID-19 pandemic is affecting 2.7 billion workers globally due to lockdowns.
US President Donald Trump is visiting Ahmedabad on February 24. As the day draws nearer, media is rife with news reports about a wall being built in the city to 'hide' slums from Donald Trump's eyes.
Nobel laureate Abhijit Banerjee addressed a session at Jaipur Literature Festival.
The woman had written a letter to the CWC, saying her husband was an alcoholic and they were not able to feed their kids. She also said one of them had once eaten mud due to hunger.
Bill Gates, Microsoft co-founder, praised Bihar for efforts to fight poverty, disease. Gates said "few places have made more progress in fighting poverty and disease than Bihar."
Bill Gates, billionaire philanthropist, and Microsoft co-founder, on Sunday praised Bihar government's progress in fighting poverty and disease in the last 20 years, saying only a few places have been able to surpass the achievements made by the state.
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