poverty
- Middle East
Lebanon: Nationwide protest against long-term economic crisis
Beirut: Lebanese held a nationwide protest against soaring prices and deteriorating living conditions caused by the long-term economic crisis. Drivers and citizens took to the streets on Thursday in the capital Beirut,…
- India
Kerala magician who shot to fame with 808 fire escapes now sells chips
Thiruvananthapuram: Kerala magician Manu Mankombu’s journey from obscurity to prominence by doing 808 fire escapes, is a thing of the past as now the 46-year-old ekes out his living by making and…
- Health
COVID-19 pandemic pushed over half a billion into poverty: UN report
New York: The COVID-19 pandemic is likely to halt two decades of global progress towards Universal Health Coverage, according to reports released on Sunday from the World Health Organization (WHO) and World…
- Telangana
13.74% of Telangana’s population lives in poverty: Niti Ayog
Hyderabad: Niti Ayog’s Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI) has revealed that 13.74 percent of the population in Telangana is living in poverty. The MPI puts Telangana at 19th position among 28 states and…
- India
Bihar, J’khand, UP emerge as poorest states in India: NITI Aayog
New Delhi: Bihar, Jharkhand and Uttar Pradesh have emerged as the poorest states in India, according to Niti Aayog’s first Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI) report. As per the index, 51.91 per cent…
- Sports
Tokyo Olympics: Through pain & poverty, hockey captain Rani kept dreaming of donning India colours
Tokyo: Indian women’s hockey team captain Rani Rampal’s determination not to give an inch till the last minute of every single game she has played for the country perhaps comes from her…
- Featured News
Forgotten hero dies in dire poverty: Shamsher Khan was the first swimmer to represent India at Olympics
Abhijit Sen Gupta The Olympic Games are considered the greatest sports show on earth but India’s performance at the Olympics has been shockingly poor. For a country which has the world’s second highest population,…
- India
Starving, poverty-stricken family hospitalised in UP’s Aligarh
Aligarh: A widow in Uttar Pradesh’s Aligarh who had lost her job due to the Covid-19 induced lockdown was admitted to a hospital along with her five children, after reportedly starving for…
- India
23 crore Indians pushed into poverty amid pandemic: Report
New Delhi: As the pandemic and the eventual lockdowns wreaked havoc on the economy and livelihoods, around 23 crore Indians have been pushed into poverty during the past one year, showed a report…
- World
President Xi claims complete victory in eradicating absolute poverty in China
Beijing: President Xi Jinping on Thursday declared that China has achieved a “complete victory” in its fight against absolute poverty by lifting over 770 million people out of it in the last four…
- World
Over 2 million UK families likely to plunge into poverty amid COVID-19 crisis
London: Over one million UK families comprising 2.4 million people experienced destitution in 2019, but the number is expected to double, as the COVID-19 pandemic has plunged the United Kingdom’s economy into…
- World
Pakistan: Poverty drives father to throw his five children into canal
Lahore: A father facing acute financial problems threw his five children into the Jamber canal in Pattoki on Sunday, causing the death of two children while other three went missing. Citing rescue…
- Featured News
Asifabad in Telangana is among five most backward districts in India
Amir Ullah Khan and Ramachandra Raju Bhupathiraju Out of the 3.5 crore people in the state, 2.75 crore are below the poverty line, according to statistics available with the civil supplies department. Poverty…
- Telangana
Telangana: Poverty-stricken couple sells daughter for Rs 30,000
Hyderabad: Extreme poverty drove a family in Gadwal to sell their two year old daughter for just Rs 30,000. The dealing was made in the name of adopting the child. According to…
- World
COVID-19 will push 47M women into extreme poverty by 2021: UN
United Nations: The COVID-19 pandemic will disproportionately affect women and push 47 million more women and girls into extreme poverty by 2021, reversing decades of progress to lift this demographic above the poverty…
