The contentious issue of India’s poverty estimates is all set to get a relook, with the government informing the Lok Sabha on Wednesday that it will soon be appointing a technical group to “revisit” t

Planning Commission deputy chairman Montek Singh Ahluwalia on Saturday said that the annual rate of decline in poverty between 1993-94 and 2004-2005 was 0.74 per cent per year. Since 2004, it has been

Rubbishing reports that the government was artificially reducing the number of people below the poverty line, Planning Commission deputy chairman Montek Singh Ahluwalia on Saturday said that a new tec

Facing criticism over the methodology being adopted to measure poverty, the Planning Commission will soon set up a technical committee comprising experts to look into the whole issue.

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A teenager immolated himself in Pakistan's northwest tribal region after his parents failed to provide him with new clothes to wear during his examinations.

Though his age was not disclosed, Kamran w

Rejecting widespread criticism for pegging poverty line at Rs 28.65 daily consumption, Plan panel Deputy Chairman Montek Singh Ahluwalia on Saturday asserted that the number of poor in the country has

Reacting to the Planning Commission figures of poverty, Leader of the Opposition in the Lok Sabha Sushma Swaraj on Wednesday blamed the government since Prime Minister Manmohan Singh was leading the p

The World Bank has announced USD 4.3 billion financial aid to India through a new innovative and flexible financing arrangement to help the country fight poverty.

This arrangement, while facili

Children living in urban India are equally vulnerable to poverty as their rural counterparts. A new Indian specific statistics presented at the launch of the Unicef’s flagship publication,Children in

The wrath of the cold wave currently gripping the nation's capital has been particularly harsh on some 60,000 homeless who continue to live in sub-human conditions notwithstanding repeated orders of t