 |
News ScanBangalore homeless: 20 dead, 40 critical in 48 hours
Twenty homeless people suffering from various ailments and old age have died in the past two days. The authorities have ordered a probe and an inspection of the relief centre in Bangalore where they were lodged More... Job guarantee plan falls short of targetsDespite the government’s tall claims, the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGS) has fallen short of its targets More... NAC for food security in one-fourth of districts, for nowThe National Advisory Council has decided to make initial recommendations that could be implemented by the end of 2010, without waiting for the Food Security Bill to be finalised and legislated More... Some Indian states poorer than Africa’s poorestEight Indian states including Bihar, Uttar Pradesh and West Bengal together account for more poor people than the 26 poorest African nations combined, a new ‘multidimensional’ measure of global poverty has revealed More... Poverty rate in India will dip to 24% by 2015The number of poor people in India is expected to halve by 2015, according to a United Nations 2010 Millennium Development Goals report More... Gujarat launches India’s first micronutrient-mix food programmeIntroducing micronutrient pre-mix for 44,000 anganwadis across the state, the Gujarat government aims to improve the health of malnourished children with a diet that comprises a pre-mix of soybean, cereals and pulses containing 18-20% protein and 600 gram kilocalories More... Mud for meals: Supreme Court team slams Uttar PradeshIn April 2010, media reports revealed acute hunger and deprivation in a village in Uttar Pradesh. Now, a Supreme Court inquiry team that visited the area finds the situation is indeed dire More... Slum-dwellers send postcards to Sonia Gandhi on food security billThe postcard campaign follows reports that the food security Bill that is awaiting passage in Parliament cuts the amount of foodgrain to be made available to below the poverty line families in the public distribution system and ignores above the poverty line families More... India raises official poverty estimateIndia’s Planning Commission has adopted the Suresh Tendulkar Committee’s methodology for poverty estimation, which includes spending on education and health, besides calorie intake, taking the number of the country’s poor to a whopping 37.2% from the 27.5% earlier estimated More... |
View articles by page |
|
|
||||||
| Microsites | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|
| Newsletter |
|---|
|
|
| Syndicate |
|---|
 |