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Full text: President Murmu's R-Day eve address to the nation

'Today, let us reaffirm our commitment to strive to realise Gandhiji’s dreams. His watchwords, truth and nonviolence, will continue to remain relevant for the whole world. He also taught us......

UK's richest 10% took half of wealth from India during colonialism

The United Kingdom extracted USD 64.82 trillion from India over a century of colonialism between 1765 and 1900 and USD 33.8 trillion of this went to the richest 10 per cent -- enough money to......

BJP's Karnataka Rout: A Defeat Foretold

The rising pitch of road shows and long rallies with hectoring pitches seem to have exhausted and numbed the audiences, rather than motivating them to vote for the party, observes Shreekant......

'200 cows, $200M lines of credit': Modi ends 2-day Rwanda visit

Prime Minister Narendra Modi began the first leg of his three-nation Africa tour from Rwanda on Monday. During his stay, Modi held wide-ranging talks with Rwanda's President Paul Kagame. He......

Full text: President Murmu's address to Parliament's Budget Session

‘Wherever in the world there is political instability, those countries are beset with severe crises today. But India is in a much better position than the rest of the world due to the......

Extreme poverty in India declined by 12.3 percentage points during 2011-19

Extreme poverty in India declined by 12.3 percentage points between 2011 and 2019, with rural areas doing better than urban centres, according to a working paper of the World Bank. Photograph:......

China plans to raise income of its poor

Gearing up to reshape its export oriented economy to that of the one driven more by domestic consumption, China plans to rise the income level of its poor from $176 to around $200, amid criticism......

Five steps to remove poverty

The government should become more accountable, carry out labour and land reforms, ensure higher credit flow to rural India and improve education to bring down poverty in India, according to a study......

Stop protectionism, India tells 1st World

India has asked rich nations to end protectionism, which costs developing countries $ 700 billion a year in export income, if the world is to meet the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) aimed at......

Robert Zoellick to be new World Bank president

The executive directors of the World Bank unanimously selected Robert B Zoellick to succeed Paul Wolfowitz, effective July 1, 2007, as the 11th President of the Bank for a five-year term. Paul......

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Full text: President Murmu's R-Day eve address to the nation

UK's richest 10% took half of wealth from India during colonialism

BJP's Karnataka Rout: A Defeat Foretold

'200 cows, $200M lines of credit': Modi ends 2-day Rwanda visit

Full text: President Murmu's address to Parliament's Budget Session

Extreme poverty in India declined by 12.3 percentage points during 2011-19

China plans to raise income of its poor

Five steps to remove poverty

Stop protectionism, India tells 1st World

Robert Zoellick to be new World Bank president

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