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- From 'pure milk' to Scotch: Bihar’s secret language of liquorBihar's decade-old alcohol ban has not stopped drinking. Instead, it has fueled a secret delivery system. Coded words like 'pure milk' and ...
- BJP's tactics of spreading fear not going to work: Tejashwi YadavRashtriya Janata Dal leader Tejashwi Yadav criticized the National Democratic Alliance. He addressed the Vaishya Representative Conference ...
- "Lalu-Nitish rule turned entire Bihar into a labourers' state": Prashant KishorJan Suraaj Party founder Prashant Kishor criticized the RJD and JD(U), asserting their governance transformed Bihar into a state of laborer...
- Over 50% of the population in Bihar classified as multidimensionally poor: NITI AayogThe index, unveiled by the Aayog recently, shows 51.9% of Bihar’s population is poor followed by 42.16% in Jharkhand, 37.79% in Uttar Prade...
- Poverty cannot be abolished, remove core problems: Meghnad DesaiThe Indian-born member of British House of Lords, who is also a Padma Bhushan awardee, said we need to concentrate on the core problems of ...
- Chhattisgarh highest incidence of poverty: C Rangarajan panelThe poor population was 44.3 per cent in Madhya Pradesh, 42.4 per cent in Jharkhand, 41.3 per cent Bihar and 40.9 per cent in Assam.
- Bihar has done better than Narendra Modi's Gujrat on women's SHGs: Jairam RameshRural Development Minister Jairam Ramesh today attacked the Narendra Modi government in Gujarat for the dismal performance of women self he...
- Rural poverty getting concentrated to some states: ReportAccording to it, Muslim and Buddhist communities have higher rates of poverty, whereas Sikh and Christian communities have lower rates of p...
- Centre's poverty definition 'cruel joke' on poor: NitishPoverty should not be decided in terms of calories and money to purchase food but on the basis of the right to live respectfully," Kumar to...
- Bihar to uplift 1 crore people through skill developmentBihar government has set a target to enhance the skills of one crore people in various works in the next five years, Nitish Kumar said.
- Gazing at states: Higher the growth rates, greater the fall in povertyFrom poverty reduction point of view, the case of Odisha is outstanding where poverty fell by the largest margin (21.6ppt), and Odisha's gr...
- India can learn from Pakistan's poverty alleviation scheme: Nitish KumarPoverty is a cross-border phenomenon and India could learn from the experiences of the Benazir Income Support Programme, Bihar Chief Minist...
- Growth is necessary to remove poverty, and interventions like NREGA helpGrowth is necessary to lift people out of poverty, but states like Madhya Pradesh show that even when growth lags, schemes like NREGA can d...
- Bihar's growth story has a poor sideThat Bihar under Nitish Kumar grew at over 10% between 2004-05 and 2009-10 is now well-known. But data released on Monday shows that in the...
- At Rs 28 daily consumption, India's poverty declinesAn individual above a monthly consumption of Rs 859.6 in urban and Rs 672.8 in rural areas is not considered poor, as per the controversial...
- '8 Indian states poorer than Africa’s 26 poorest'Eight Indian states, including Bihar, Uttar Pradesh and West Bengal, together account for more poor people than the 26 poorest African nati...
- Maharashtra 3rd among BPL states only behind UP, Bihar
- Orissa has highest number of poor, J&K the leastAlmost half of Orissa's population is poor, with 46.37 per cent of the people in the state living below poverty line.
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