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  UN calls for more efforts to eradicate poverty

  World | October 18, 2014 6:25 IST

  United Nations: The UN on Friday marked the International Day for the Eradication of Poverty, with its Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon calling for more efforts to eliminate poverty in all its forms as 2.4 billion people

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  Super 30 founder calls for non-discriminatory education to all

  World | October 06, 2014 13:49 IST

  Washington: Exhorting experts, scholars and students of the Harvard University to use their expertise in the 'big fight' against illiteracy and poverty, the founder of well-known Super 30 tutorial program in Bihar has called for

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  Chris Cairns, a legend cricketer, on the brink of poverty

  Cricket | September 19, 2014 17:38 IST

  Auckland: It may not come as a surprise to see a famed athlete doing odd jobs to support his/her family in India but even a country like New Zealand, Internationally famous athletes have to do

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  Odisha couple held for selling their children

  India | July 17, 2014 13:25 IST

  Bhubaneswar: A couple was detained in Odisha's capital Bhubaneswar for allegedly selling their three children, including a new-born baby, for money, police said Thursday.Shyama Chandra Rao, 35, and his wife Pramila, 29, residents of a

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  K Chandrasekhar Rao asks officials to wage war against poverty in dalits

  India | June 25, 2014 7:23 IST

  Hyderabad: Telangana Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao today asked district collectors to work hard to ensure that dalits are lifted out of poverty and that their living conditions are improved. Addressing a meeting of collectors

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  Ten things that are stopping India's development

  India | July 27, 2014 11:14 IST

  New Delhi: With 67 years been since the country became independent, India is still called a developing nation. The country is full of resources but still lags behind other countries like China, Japan, and Singapore

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  Modi takes on father-son duo in UP, slams Congress for poverty

  Politics | January 23, 2014 23:37 IST

  Gorakhpur(UP): Narendra Modi today took on the “father-son” duo of Mulayam Singh Yadav and Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav, saying the ruling SP had “destroyed” Uttar Pradesh and asked its supremo whether he knew the meaning

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  4 generations of Nehru-Gandhis only talked about poverty: Modi

  Politics | November 23, 2013 6:41 IST

  Indore: Continuing to target the Nehru-Gandhi family, BJP's prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi here today said poverty remained the theme of the speeches through its four generations starting from Jawaharlal Nehru but “nothing changed” on

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  We will prove Cassandras of doom wrong: PM

  India | July 31, 2013 22:11 IST

  New Delhi, July 31: Committing to accelerate the pace of reforms, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh today said the government will have to act boldly and decisively to revive economic growth and prove nay-sayers wrong."I do

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  Poverty came down during UPA rule, says Congress

  Politics | July 24, 2013 19:37 IST

  New Delhi, July 24: The Congress Wednesday claimed that poverty in India came down during the United Progressive Alliance (UPA) rule owing to its pro-poor policies."The rate of poverty reduction during the seven years of

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  Poverty declines to 21.9 pc in India

  India | July 23, 2013 18:46 IST

  New Delhi, Jul 23: Poverty ratio in the country has declined to 21.9 per cent in 2011-12 from 37.2 per cent in 2004-05 on account of increase in per capita consumption, Planning Commission said.According to

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  Know the Food Security Bill and whom will it benefit the most (watch pics)

  India | August 26, 2013 16:57 IST

  New Delhi:  The Food Security Bill promulgated by the President is aimed at giving the nation's two-third population the right to get 5 kgs of foodgrains every month at highly subsidised rates of Rs 1-3

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  Tom Hiddleston's action against poverty

  Hollywood | April 09, 2013 13:07 IST

  London, April 9: Actor Tom Hiddleston has vowed to live on less than a pound a day for an entire week to support a Unicef campaign against poverty.The 32-year-old later took to Twitter and urged

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  Global poverty can be eradicated only when it ends in UP: World Bank chief

  India | March 13, 2013 11:36 IST

  Lucknow, March 13 :Global poverty cannot be eliminated without eradicating it in Uttar Pradesh which is home to the highest number of poor in the country, World Bank chief Jim Yong Kim  said on Tuesday

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  India and China will be more powerful than the US by 2030: Study

  December 12, 2012 6:33 IST

  New Delhi, Dec 11: A US intelligence community in a new report released on Monday says by 2030, a surging India, along with China, will overpower long-reigning U.S. and E.U. It said the two Asian

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  Driven by poverty, Kasab took to crime and jihad

  India | November 21, 2012 18:27 IST

  New Delhi, Nov 21: It was his father's refusal to buy him new clothes on Eid that forced a miffed Ajmal Amir Kasab to quit home, take to crime and then embrace jihad, leading to

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  One in eight Australians is poor: Report

  World | October 14, 2012 23:14 IST

  Canberra, Oct 14: More than 2.2 million Australians - or one in eight - are living below the internationally accepted poverty line used to measure financial hardship in wealthy countries, a welfare group said in

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  Crisis-hit Greece will get a Euro 2012 boost

  Football | June 06, 2012 21:43 IST

  Poland, Jun 6 :  With the financial crisis causing a surge in unemployment and poverty, Greece's national football team is looking to provide some respite from the problems back home.Greek football association president Sofoklis Pilavios

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  Poverty Forces National Archer To Sell Her Gifted Bow For Rs 50,000

  Other Sports | March 29, 2012 20:13 IST

  Jamshedpur (Jharkhand), Mar 29: Nisha Rani Dutta, who took part in several international archery championships, has sold her costly bow for Rs 50,000 to an up-and- coming Manipuri archer, in order to repair her dilapidated

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  Young South Africans Call For Jobs, End To Poverty

  World | October 28, 2011 8:06 IST

  Johannesburg, Oct 28: The youth leader of the governing African National Congress led thousands of young South Africans through the country's economic hub and on to the capital in a protest against poverty and joblessness,