Simultaneous polls could save Rs 7 lakh crore: Joint parliamentary panel chiefHolding Lok Sabha and state assembly polls together could save India Rs 7 lakh crore. This significant saving can be channeled into develop...
20 May, 2026, 10.29 AM IST
CM Vijay allocates portfolios, keeps police, home, youth welfareTamil Nadu Chief Minister C Joseph Vijay has announced cabinet portfolios. Key ministers have been assigned their departments. Vijay himsel...
16 May, 2026, 11.22 PM IST
India, IFAD launch new programme to strengthen rural economyIndia has teamed up with the International Fund for Agricultural Development to introduce a transformative eight-year program, slated for 2...
12 May, 2026, 11.06 PM IST
China lifts over 68 million people out of poverty in 5 years: ReportThe report published by China's State Council Leading Group Office of Poverty Alleviation and Development said it was equivalent to an annu...
10 Feb, 2018, 05.18 PM IST
Applications for urban housing to be received from tomorrowApplications for 1,096 units of urban housing constructed by Urban Development department under the BSUP would be received from tomorrow.
07 Mar, 2016, 04.47 PM IST
China to spend $93 billion to relocate 10 million poor peopleChina will spend $93 billion in the next five years to relocate about 10 million impoverished people as part of its efforts to eradicate po...
15 Dec, 2015, 10.53 PM IST
China vows to lift remaining 70 million above poverty line by 2020China's top leadership has pledged resolute measures to lift the remaining 70 million poor people above poverty line by 2020 which amounted...
29 Nov, 2015, 02.01 PM IST
Xi Jinping pledges to remove poverty in China by 2020Xi Jinping to lift the remaining over 70 million people in the world's second biggest economy out of poverty by 2020, which amounts to a mi...
16 Oct, 2015, 05.56 PM IST
China plans to remove poverty by 2020China will eradicate poverty completely by 2020 as it plans to lift nearly 70.17 million people living in the countryside above the poverty...
12 Oct, 2015, 08.27 PM IST
JVs among SAARC nations to aid development, alleviate povertyBetter exchange, cooperation and building of joint ventures among SAARC countries would lead to development of the region and help alleviat...
10 Mar, 2015, 07.51 PM IST
92 million people living in poverty in ChinaLiu told a seminar in central China's Hubei Province that about 116,600 work teams with 466,000 cadres were dispatched to the villages for ...
06 Dec, 2014, 05.34 PM IST
SAARC comes out with poverty profileA poverty profile for eight South Asian nations was released today to share of the best practices and experiences towards poverty alleviati...
02 Oct, 2013, 07.04 PM IST
- Centre to come up with NULM policy soon: Ajay Maken
The Central Government would soon come up with a new policy of National Urban Livelihood Mission (NULM) to alleviate poverty in urban areas...
10 May, 2013, 11.17 PM IST
- Economic development always part of dialogue with India: US
Economic development issues, including poverty alleviation, are always part of America's dialogue with India, the US State Department has s...
08 Mar, 2012, 11.15 AM IST
- Draft real estate regulation Bill to be made public this week
The government will make public the draft Real Estate Regulation and Development Bill, 2011 for comments from stakeholders this week.
08 Nov, 2011, 08.40 PM IST
- Panel wants survey to identify the urban poor
The Administrative Reforms Commission has recommended a nationwide survey of the urban poor so that they can avail benefits under all pover...
28 Nov, 2007, 10.25 AM IST
- Poor flow of funds to poverty schemes
Eradication of poverty, a prime focus for the UPA government, seems to have been given the short shrift. Housing and poverty alleviation mi...
25 Oct, 2007, 01.09 AM IST