Left govt in Kerala enters fourth year, CM says extreme poverty will be eradicated by 2025Kerala CM Pinarayi Vijayan said that while the Union government fails to fill the numerous vacancies in various Central government establis...
22 May, 2024, 01.46 PM IST
Poverty and growth of political agencyThe key to social investment is political agency on the part of the citizenry. When they demand better education, sanitation and healthcare...
29 Nov, 2021, 11.15 PM IST
HC questions Kerala govt rationale behind fixing rates for treating post COVID complicationsA bench of Justices Devan Ramachandran and Kauser Edappagath expressed the view while directing the state government to clarify why it issu...
22 Sep, 2021, 05.29 PM IST
Flood-hit Kerala to get low cost LPG cylindersPetroleum Minister Dharmendra Pradhan said those below the poverty line will be given an LPG connection for Rs 200 and the rest would be of...
30 Aug, 2018, 05.16 PM IST
Growth in Gujarat hasn’t been confined to 1% of populationThe proportion of the population living below the poverty line in Gujarat fell from 32.5% in 2004-05 to 17% in 2011-2012.
18 Dec, 2017, 10.00 AM IST
Centre issues ultimatum to Kerala, Tamil Nadu for implementing National Food Security ActThe Kerala government had earlier said it would implement the NFSA from November but now the state is planning to do it from December.
16 Sep, 2016, 04.26 PM IST
CCEA may approve extra PDS grain for three states from WednesdayCCEA is likely to approve tomorrow a proposal to allocate an extra monthly 62,300 tonnes of grains for supply through ration shops in Tamil...
31 May, 2016, 09.13 PM IST
Ghulam Nabi Azad hits out at PM over Somalia remark in KeralaHe said there was all respect for Somalians but comparing people of Kerala which has a literacy rate of 100 per cent with them is "regretta...
12 May, 2016, 10.19 PM IST
Amartya Sen vs Bhagwati: Who is right in the debate on Gujarat-Kerala growth models?The 79-year-old’s detractors led by Jagdish Bhagwati question his intellectual honesty and the quality of his works. ET probes the relevanc...
28 Jul, 2013, 09.50 AM IST
Food Security scheme: Kerala conveys its concerns to CentreThe Congress-led UDF ruled Kerala has conveyed to the Centre the problems the state might face while implementing the Food Security program...
17 Jul, 2013, 08.06 PM IST
Gujarat promises continued, accelerated and all-around progress: Jagdish Bhagwati & Arvind PanagariyaGujarat Model is a metaphor and you can apply it to Tamil Nadu & Maharashtra. It also applies to Kerala in large measure, they said.
20 Jun, 2013, 12.36 PM IST
Quality of governance results in southern states surging aheadQuality of governance and better leadership has led to southern states surging ahead of their northern counterparts.
07 May, 2013, 04.08 PM IST
The Gujarat miracle: No denying the economic advances the state has made under Narendra ModiCritics who view Modi through the 2002 lens fail to separate their economics from politics & fall short of 20/20 vision.
23 Sep, 2012, 02.54 PM IST
Cracking the Kerala Myth: Image as a state-led success crumbles in the face of hard factsHigh inequality means that, contrary to claims by many, Kerala could not have achieved the decline in poverty without significant increases...
08 Jan, 2012, 11.09 AM IST
- Growth, reforms lift living standards in India: Human development Index
HDI improvement was led by a 28.5% increase in the education index, which ranged from 0.41 in Bihar to 0.92 for Kerala.
22 Oct, 2011, 04.17 AM IST
Poverty reduction and creationThe statistics on poverty hide as much as they reveal, providing fresh insights into the poor simultaneously overcoming and being consumed ...
25 Jan, 2010, 06.18 AM IST
- India below sub-Saharan Africa in hunger index
Despite robust economic growth in recent years, India’s record on hunger is worse than that of nearly 25 sub-Saharan African countries and ...
15 Oct, 2008, 01.49 AM IST