The social and economic gaps continue to grow even though well-intentioned people in the world have spent trillions to fight poverty. Our approach is wrong.
216 million climate refugees are expected to be displaced in six world regions. The top three are sub-Saharan Africa, East Asia and the Pacific, and South Asia.
Bio rights is a financing mechanism that provides global market players ecosystem services by paying small credits to the local communities, writes Ayush Anand.
India's official poverty estimates are more than a decade old. A consumption expenditure survey was last conducted in 2017-18 but its findings were never accepted by the govt.
The Centre rejected the findings, saying the index is an 'erroneous measure' of hunger. With a score of 29.1, the level of hunger in India has been labelled as 'serious'.
According to World Bank, no. of global poor increased by 7.1 crore in 2020, of which at least 33% were in India. Other methods used to estimate poverty in India due to lack of govt data.
Police say they were informed about a suicide in Andheri, but the woman later confessed that caring for her daughter had taken a toll on her, amid financial issues faced by family.
On 19 November 1962, PM Jawaharlal Nehru addressed the people of Assam in a radio address and spoke of the resolve against Chinese attack, saying India won't tolerate this invasion.
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