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World Bank cuts global growth forecast to 2.5%; India seen growing 6.6% amid Iran war- Poverty forced him to leave school in Class 4. Worked as a tailor, then started his own shop. Today, he is one of the top Malayalam actors and a National Award winner
- Quote of the day by Singapore’s former Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong: ''We cooperate with China because of shared interests, not because of shared blood.'' ― What does “shared interests not shared blood” reveal about modern diplomacy and global power balance?
- India's aspirations 'no longer limited to its borders': PM Narendra Modi to diaspora in NetherlandsPrime Minister Narendra Modi described India as a land of opportunities undergoing unprecedented transformation. He stated India's aspirati...16 May, 2026, 05.54 PM IST
- Hundreds of residents are getting surprise $500 deposits — here's how the program worksEvanston, Illinois has approved a new guaranteed income expansion program delivering automatic $500 monthly payments to 102 low income hous...13 May, 2026, 07.39 PM IST
- He dropped out of school, sold vegetables, and worked as office boy to support family. But travel vlogs changed the life of Indore auto driver. ‘Now, if my kids ask for pizza, I start the auto and take them out.’Indore's Ravi Ratnawat, an auto driver, transformed his life by becoming a travel vlogger during the COVID-19 pandemic. Despite facing pove...18 Apr, 2026, 03.08 PM IST
- What happened to poverty during Covid pandemic in India?The decline in inequality and the much modest increase in poverty during the pandemic as observed in various studies is not a finding exclu...30 Mar, 2023, 11.49 PM IST
- From Covid to povertyScheduled castes (SC) are a particularly vulnerable constituency. Unsurprisingly, SC members were more susceptible to going hungry than oth...18 Oct, 2022, 11.07 PM IST
- India lifted 415 million out of poverty in 15 years, says UNThe UNDP report noted that the effects of the Covid-19 pandemic on poverty in India cannot be fully assessed because 71% of the data from t...18 Oct, 2022, 12.13 AM IST
- World Bank says goal of ending extreme poverty by 2030 won't be metThe COVID-19 pandemic marked a historic turning point after decades of poverty reduction, the report said, with 71 million more people livi...05 Oct, 2022, 09.16 PM IST
- Pandemic pushes back Asia Pacific's fight against extreme poverty by 2 years: ADBThe COVID-19 pandemic has set back the fight against poverty in Asia and the Pacific by at least two years, said the latest report by Asian...24 Aug, 2022, 05.14 PM IST
- Parable of inequality: MGNREGS as social protectionThrough its sophisticated social protection system with schemes like the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGS...18 Feb, 2022, 03.43 PM IST
- Poverty as pandemic: A redefinitionWhile the Pandemic is considered to be a rare occurrence, its effects have sent us back years in our social progress. The worst-hit remains...19 Jan, 2022, 04.40 PM 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
- By 2021, as many as 150 million people likely to be in extreme poverty due to COVID-19: World BankThe COVID-19 pandemic is estimated to push an additional 88 million to 115 million people into extreme poverty this year, with the total ri...07 Oct, 2020, 12.08 PM IST
- Over 6% Indian-Americans living below poverty line: ReportAn estimated 6.5 per cent of the 4.2 million Indian-Americans are living below the poverty line and the COVID-19 pandemic is likely to incr...02 Oct, 2020, 09.19 AM IST
- Covid-19 pandemic will push 47 million more women, girls into extreme poverty by 2021: UNThe new analysis by the UNDP said the COVID-19 crisis will dramatically increase the poverty rate for women and widen the gap between men a...03 Sep, 2020, 09.58 AM IST
- India is at risk of losing hard-won gains in the fight against poverty, says World BankIn the IDU report until June 2020, the draft of which has been shared with the government, the World Bank observed that the fiscal impact o...24 Jul, 2020, 09.07 AM IST
- India joins 'Alliance for Poverty Eradication' at UN as founding memberHe will also galvanise Member States, the international community and other stakeholders to support actions geared towards poverty eradicat...25 Jun, 2020, 12.20 PM IST
- Extreme poverty could rise to over one billion people globally due to covid-19 crisis: ReportResearchers from King's College London and Australian National University published the new paper with the United Nations University World ...12 Jun, 2020, 01.26 PM IST
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