Citizens pledge to eradicate poverty by 2015

A large number of people from various walks of life, including school students pledged on Monday to try and achieve the UN Millenium Development Goal of eradicating poverty by 2015, in what could......

PM @ UN: Eradicate poverty for global peace

Invoking Mahatma Gandhi in his address at the United Nations General Assembly, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday said that 'one must care about the world one will not see', adding that the......

Xi declares victory in eradicating poverty in China

Chinese President Xi Jinping on Thursday declared that China has scored a "complete victory" in its fight against poverty by lifting over 770 million people out of it in the last four decades,......

How Kerala Aims to Be India's First Poverty Free State

Despite facing financial constraints, Kerala has been able to invest in welfare schemes and targeted programmes. IMAGE: Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan at the Left Democratic Front......

Aadhaar to help eradicate poverty, says WB chief

Describing Aadhaar card as one of the best example of integration of technology for social welfare use, the World Bank president, Jim Yong Kim, believes that this massive effort by the Indian......

China sends officials to villages to eradicate poverty

Stepping up its campaign to eradicate rural poverty, China has launched a new scheme under which its provincial officials have to live in villages and develop those areas, where most of its over......

How Modi plans to eradicate poverty, push growth

The Bharatiya Janata Party’s prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi on Thursday said his idea of a better governance model would stand on the feet of greater economic federalism, more......

Grow at 10% to end poverty: Kalam

President A P J Abdul Kalam said on Friday that to completely eradicate poverty in the country, India would have to achieve a GDP growth of 10 per cent continuously for a decade at a stretch."We......

Rahman pens anti-poverty anthem

After scoring hits for Bollywood and southern films, which have won lakhs of admirers around the world, music composer A R Rahman has now written an 'anthem' on the theme of eradicating poverty.The......