The Supreme Court on Monday set aside a National Green Tribunal order halting construction activities at Auroville in Chennai for want of environmental clearance and said a "golden balance" needed......
Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh chief Mohan Bhagwat has said the date of Ram temple consecration in Ayodhya should be celebrated as "Pratishtha Dwadashi", as the "true independence" of Bharat, which......
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......
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday mocked Shiv Sena (UBT) chief Uddhav Thackeray for “handing over the remote control” of the party to the Congress as he took poll battle to......
He won two terms, which was a stunning feat for a leader who used his silence as the most vocal weapon to change the economy and lives of a billion people, asserts Tarun Vijay, former BJP MP and......
Almost 129 million Indians are living in extreme poverty in 2024, on less than $2.15 (about Rs 181) a day, down from 431 million in 1990, the World Bank said in report on Tuesday. Photograph:......
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......
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......
Observing that environmental degradation holds back growth, a top official of the World Bank on Wednesday said that conservation of biological diversity is essential for 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 much is $14 million? A salary of 1 crore a year for fifty-eight years. Three orders of Rs 10 pani puri for each of Greater Mumbai's 18 million residents. 145 brand new BMW 5-series sedans OR......
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......