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TMC counters PM Modi's Bengal speech with '7-point reality check'Derek O'Brien challenges Prime Minister Narendra Modi's statements on India's progress and West Bengal's economy. O'Brien highlights widesp...- Number of poor people in India fell by about 415 mn between 2005-06 and 2019-21, a 'historic change': UNThe new Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI) released on Monday by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and the Oxford Poverty a...
- Migratory workers under close attention on electoral interest"This 'free' home visit is too good as the agents are paying for everything. Moreover, they also deal with our employers to ensure leave. S...
- Recovery faster than expected, need to keep growth momentum: Principal economic advisorAfter contracting for two quarters in a row, the country's economy grew by 0.4 per cent in the October-December quarter of the current fisc...
- View: NRC-CAA move likely to stoke a statistical collapseIf a statistical fog renders data dubious, we can't identify what’s going right or wrong, or fix failures.
- Congress eyes gains across seven states with Nyay schemeA senior Congress functionary, who was involved in the groundwork for Nyay, told ET, “In our analysis we have gone by government statistics.
- Why 1967 spelt betrayal and 2019 spells hope1967 could have been a swerve point, the start of economic reform and a fast-forward movement towards national prosperity.
- From bicycle to a Land Rover: How Chandra Shekhar Ghosh of Bandhan Bank rose from poverty to richesBandhan on Tuesday made a dream market debut. The scrip got listed at Rs 499 on the NSE, a 33 per cent premium to the issue price of Rs 375.
- Mamata Banerjee accuses BJP of running 'malicious' campaign against Trinamool CongressMamata Banerjee said the BJP was circulating wrong information to "demean the performance of her government" only to gain political mileage.
- Tackle poverty by the 'pull-up' approach: M J AkbarWith the Budget a few days away, M J Akbar, a BJP MP, writes about a concerted new approach to tackle poverty by moving away from ‘trickle-...
- Debt burden is not the root cause of West Bengal's woes: Arvind Subramanian, CEAArvind Subramanian said that the state could reap the benefits from Look East policy, lower cost of land and real estate in attracting inve...
- Rural India lags in education, jobs as many households are landless, finds SECC surveyThe country has a total of 24.39 crore households, putting 73% of them in rural areas. This is the first such survey in more than eight dec...
- Fight against poverty: Telangana, J&K, Madhya Pradesh and Maharashtra are the worst performing statesTelangana, J&K, Madhya Pradesh and Maharashtra are the worst performing states in providing for the poorest of the poor, show latest data.
- Lok Sabha polls 2014: Trinamool Congress no benefactor of Muslims, says Narendra ModiNarendra Modi today hit out at the Trinamool Congress for claiming to be a do-gooder for Muslims, saying the minority community is far bett...
- Escape velocity to beat the gravitational pull of povertyPeople have started brushing up on physics. If you are poor, 11.2-km-a-second (Earth) may be required to break out of the poverty trap.
- Microcredit may have over-promised, but it still benefits millions: Esther DufloDuflo is the Abdul Latif Jameel Professor of Poverty Alleviation and Development Economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
- AMU’s Murshidabad campus to be operational before pollsTrinamool Congress and Congress, the two UPA partners which have embarked on the mission to oust the ruling Left Front in West Bengal, are ...
- More hands at work, but harvest wilting at farmsRelying on 2004-05 data, the Economic Survey says that only 1.9% households experience hunger compared to 4.2% households in 1993-94.
- Social reforms in Kerala & Bengal way behind UP, MP & R’sthanLeft-ruled states Kerala and West Bengal are far behind UP, Rajasthan and Orissa in implementing social reform schemes as envisaged under `...
- Paswan has cheap drugs for poorEven as he rattled off growth and productivity figures for steel, reeled off demand and supply statistics and invited investments to India.
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