poverty
- India
COVID-19 might push 120 million children into poverty in South Asia, India: UNICEF
New Delhi: An estimated 120 million children living in South Asian countries, including India, could slip into poverty within the next six months due to the COVID-19 crisis, taking the…
- Featured News
COVID-19: Over a billion people will suffer from extreme poverty
New York: Global poverty could rise to over one billion people due to the COVID-19 pandemic and more than half of the 395 million additional extreme poor would be located in…
- News
Slain Amjad Sabri’s associate living in abject poverty
KARACHI: Qawwal Saleem Sabri, an associate of slain Qawwal Amjad Sabri is living a life of hunger and poverty. Amjad Sabri, one of Pakistan’s finest Sufi Qawwals was gunned down…
- Top Stories
Oxfam predicts coronavirus could push half a billion into poverty
Paris: International aid group Oxfam on Thursday urged world leaders to agree a comprehensive rescue package to muster some $2.5 trillion needed to prevent half a billion more people being pushed into…
- Middle East
Coronavirus to plunge 8 million into poverty in Arab world: UN
Beirut: The coronavirus pandemic will plunge 8.3 million people in the Arab region into poverty, the United Nation’s Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia said on Wednesday. Two million people…
- Featured News
COVID Times: Saving children of a lesser god
Mohammed Wajihuddin The current lockdown has begun unmasking many an ugly truth about India. One of the truths is that pervasive poverty extenuated by loss of jobs and work may…
- Health
Higher poverty linked to increased youth suicide risk
New York: Researchers have revealed that adolescents living in poverty may be at greater risk of suicide, particularly by firearms. According to the study, suicide in children under age 20…
- Hollywood
When Tyler Perry was running from poverty
Los Angeles: Actor Tyler Perry has admitted that he was “running from poverty” during the early years of his career. In an interview to Times newspaper, the “Star Trek” fame actor…
- India
Nationalism diverts attention from issues like poverty: Abhijit
Abhijit Vinayak Banerjee said strident nationalism diverts attention from pressing issues like poverty, especially in a country like India. The Indian-origin economist jointly won the 2019 Nobel Prize with Esther…
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Muslim minority is a convenient scapegoat for all ills
In his book Through the Russian Revolution, the American journalist Albert Rhys Williams, who was in Russia at the time of the 1917 revolution, writes, “In Moscow I saw two…
- Crime and Accident
Poverty forces dad to drown 20-day-old twin girls in UP
Muzaffarnagar: In a shocking incident in Muzaffarnagar’s Bhikki village, a father killed his 20-day-old twin daughters by drowning them in a pond because he could not afford to raise them.…
- India
Women micro-entrepreneurs break free from poverty in Punjab
Bhagwanpura: Eleven years ago, Charanjit Kaur, then a landless labourer aged 35, was getting increasingly frustrated. With three children to support, she and her husband laboured tirelessly each day doing…
- India
Poverty, not lychees, the real culprit of ‘brain fever’ outbreak
Hichara: From lychees to heat, the factors behind almost 120 children dying in eastern India this month are many, but there are two underlying and preventable root causes: poverty and…
- News
Early life challenges affect how children focus on activities
Washington: Facing adversities and challenges during the early years of lives affect children’s executive function skills and their ability to focus and organize tasks, recent findings suggest. According to the…
- Business
Growth rates in low-income countries below mark to reduce poverty: World Bank
Washington: Growth rates in low-income countries are expected to rise to 6 percent in 2020 from 5.4 percent this year, but that is still not enough to substantially reduce poverty,…
- India
Are hunger, poverty Modi’s nationalism, asks Sidhu
Ahmedabad: Congress leader Navjot Singh Sidhu on Wednesday asked Prime Minister Narendra Modi if he considered the prevailing problems of hunger and poverty in the country as nationalism. Addressing an…
- News
Poverty leaves a mark on nearly 10% of genes in the genome, says study
Washington: A new study has found that poverty leaves a mark on nearly 10 percent of the genes in the genome and experiences over the course of development become embodied…
- Business
India’s middle class, neo-middle class to be largest vote component in 2024 polls: Jaitley
New Delhi: Noting that India’s socio-economic character has significantly altered in the past few years, Finance Minister Arun Jaitley said on Thursday that the country’s middle class and neo-middle class…
- Politics
Poverty increased in Modi’s regime, we will eradicate it: Rahul Gandhi
Congress president Rahul Gandhi on Thursday claimed that poverty has increased during Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s regime, while promising to eradicate poverty if Congress comes to power. “In India, poverty…
- India
Congress’ mantra was entitlement of poverty: Javadekar
New Delhi: Hailing the Narendra Modi-led government for eradicating the country’s poverty at a fast pace, Union Minister Prakash Javadekar on Monday took a swipe at the previous Congress-led government,…
