Some people trying to disturb peace by spreading venom of caste politics: Modi

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday attacked Opposition for spreading venom in society in the name of caste and asked people to thwart such conspiracies with a view to strengthening the shared......

BJP ridiculing Savarkar when...: Rahul in Lok Sabha

Leader of Opposition Rahul Gandhi on Saturday cited Hindutva idealogue V D Savarkar's criticism of the Constitution that there was "nothing Indian about it" to attack the BJP and said the ruling......

Maharashtra assembly unlikely to have a Leader of Opposition

The Mahayuti landslide in Maharashtra will leave the state assembly without a leader of opposition as no party outside the ruling alliance has been able to get the mandatory minimum 29 seats.......

'Rahul Gandhi Is Stabilising India With Caste Census Demand'

'Rahul Gandhi is raising the issue of a caste census though his party has been doing injustice on this front from the 1950s.' IMAGE: Rahul Gandhi addresses the Samvidhan Samman Sammelan in......

NITI Aayog plays safe on poverty

Not to estimate poverty lines or absolute numbers; will take these from ongoing socio-eco caste census done by states, focus on impact of programmes Taking note of some hard lessons learnt by its......

New panel to review India's poverty data

The Tendulkar Committee's recommendations on poverty have run out of takers, at least in the political circles. Under pressure from all sides over its estimate of people living below the poverty......

Poverty in India falls but poor get poorer

New Planning Commission data show poverty has declined eight per cent in the past five years.But, the bad news is the updated poverty estimates of the Tendulkar Committee have lowered the poverty......

India remains mostly rural and poor

  We can get a measure of the rural poverty from the fact that 38.3 per cent of households are landless and earn mostly from casual labour, notes Subir Roy It is not as if we did not know a......