Why 2026 Kerala polls are crucial test for Congress-led United Democratic Front after Left front's decade in powerKerala Exit Poll 2026: Exit polls suggest the Congress-led UDF could unseat Kerala's ruling LDF after a decade in opposition, with projecti...
02 May, 2026, 07.43 PM IST
Chandrababu Naidu shirking responsibility through P4, new form of privatization: YSRCPYSRCP's A Rambabu criticises Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu for allegedly evading responsibility on welfare schemes through privatisati...
31 Mar, 2025, 02.06 PM IST
China celebrates official end of extreme poverty, lauds President XiThe propaganda apparatus has been linking national successes to Xi, including fighting the coronavirus, China's rise as a technology creato...
26 Feb, 2021, 12.03 AM IST
China holds first meeting with South Asian countries on COVID-19, poverty relief cooperationChinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Hua Chunying told a media briefing, that the first meeting with the South Asian countries on anti-epi...
08 Jan, 2021, 05.13 PM IST
View: Congress gave slogans, Modi made them realGlitches affected all of Modi’s projects, yet they achieved far more than Congress schemes ever did.
09 Jun, 2019, 10.13 AM IST
'Anandadhara' has been successful in empowering rural women in Bengal: CMOn the International Day of Rural Women, Mamata Banerjee took to Twitter to state that empowerment of rural women was being done through se...
15 Oct, 2018, 11.46 AM IST
Some parties trying to obstruct Modi govt's progress: Mukhtar Abbas NaqviHe made an appeal to Muslims to become a sincere part of the positive inclusive growth being generated by the NDA government.
21 Aug, 2017, 10.31 PM IST
Niti Aayog may set up panel to draw up a new poverty lineThe re-look at the issue was necessitated as the Niti Aayog has to measure the impact of the government's anti-poverty schemes and set a ta...
09 Jul, 2016, 10.45 AM IST
Social entrepreneur Zubaida Bai bags UN honour for corporate sustainability initiativeZubaida Bai, the founder of 'ayzh', a for-profit social venture providing health and livelihood solutions to impoverished women worldwide, ...
24 Jun, 2016, 01.41 PM IST
UN ushers in ambitious 2030 Sustainable Development GoalsThe Millennium Development Goals came to an end with 2015 paving the way for the SDGs, an even more ambitious set of goals to banish a host...
01 Jan, 2016, 11.49 AM IST
NITI Aayog mulls proposal for DBT to five most deprived families in every villageUnder the proposal, the beneficiaries would be identified by the panchayats and they would be provided direct central assistance through va...
13 Jun, 2015, 10.38 AM IST
PM Modi seeks Opposition's support on Land Bill; says ready to change if it is 'anti-farmer'"We knew you (Cong) were passing the bill in haste for political gains, yet we stood by you. Did it take 120 years to find flaws in the law...
28 Feb, 2015, 02.49 AM IST
The war on poverty: An abject failure or a progressive movement?There is strong evidence that anti-poverty programs have long-term benefits, both to their recipients and to the nation as a whole.
10 Jan, 2014, 12.47 PM IST
- Complex system of patronage, corruption blunts India’s efforts to help the poor out of poverty
The Rae Bareli seat in Uttar Pradesh has been a Gandhi family bastion since 1967 when Indira Gandhi first stood for election from there.
09 Jun, 2012, 05.08 AM IST
Is India actually in need of British patronage?Culture of goodness doesn’t resonate with a hard-nosed India that expects Britain to be equally hard-nosed . Good diplomacy and charity can...
12 Feb, 2012, 11.20 AM IST
- SC shows green light for GM crop field trials
The Supreme Court has allowed a panel to examine applications for initiating research and field trials involving genetically modified crops...
15 Feb, 2008, 03.06 AM IST
- India wants 'more inclusive' globalisation
A major challenge for a number of developing countries is to counteract jobless growth and reconcile market forces with the objective of a ...
10 Oct, 2007, 10.40 AM IST