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Extreme poverty nearly alleviated in India: SBI research

As the poverty rates in the country declined below 5 percent in 2024, a research study by State Bank of India also highlighted that the extreme poverty in the country has been reduced to minimal.......

Tushar Shah To Travel to Space On Tue

Blue Origin's 10th human flight, NS-30, will lift off from Launch Site in West Texas on Tuesday, February 25. IMAGE: A Blue Origin New Shepard rocket launches. All photographs: Kind courtesy Blue......

'Maharashtra's Economy Is Going Sri Lanka's Way'

'Maharashtra is virtually in a debt trap.' IMAGE: Then Maharashtra chief minister Eknath Shinde showers flower petals on women during the launch of the second phase of the Mukhyamantri Majhi......

'A Great Soul Of India'

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......

SC uses extraordinary power, asks IIT Dhanbad to admit Dalit youth

The Supreme Court on Monday came to the rescue of a Dalit youth, who had lost his seat in IIT Dhanbad after missing the deadline to deposit a fee, by asking the institute to admit him to the BTech......

Falling poverty claims in SBI report spark concerns about methodology

'Before jumping to a conclusion that India has been able to end poverty, we should interrogate the labour markets.' IMAGE: A scavenger, surrounded by a flock of Greater Adjutant birds, collects......

Trump Takes Centrestage At Energy Week 2025

'Trump is good news for us. Energy poverty is real, and fossil fuels are the answer.' IMAGE: Union Minister of Petroleum and Natural Gas Hardeep Singh Puri with Venezuela Minister of Petroleum......

129 mn Indians living in extreme poverty in 2024

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:......

363,000,000 people in India below the poverty line

A new panel has found that 29.5 per cent of India's population was poor in 2011-12 against just 21.9 per cent estimated under the previous methodology which had drawn sharp criticism from various......

8.2% Indian Americans live below poverty line

Boasting of having the highest per capita income among all the major ethnic groups, more than eight percent of the nearly three million Indian Americans are living below the poverty line in the......

Anuja Review: Oscar Hopeful Aims For The Heart

Palak and Anuja endear us to their bittersweet world, observes Sukanya Verma. Anuja begins with a girl telling her tween sibling a Panchatantra story about how a faithful mongoose saved a farmer's......

'I Studied Medicine Only For Papa'

'Thanks to Chhaava's success, I now have the creative freedom to pick and choose.' Photograph: Kind courtesy Vineet Kumar Singh/Instagram "Now that success has finally come my way, it has broken......

'Heeramandi wasn't another sex scene'

'While I was performing it, I had a weird feeling that people would love it because it's so bizarre.' Photograph: Kind courtesy Shekhar Suman Sanjay Leela Bhansali's Heeramandi: The Diamond......

The People Mumbai Forgot

'When the mill strike started, there was crisis in every mill worker household.''One entire generation went without education.''Hunger forced them to take to crime.' IMAGE: Scenes from Todi Mill......

The Magical World Of Muzaffar Ali

'I somehow felt that Muzaffar Ali was in Aligarh to feel the pulse of the Muslim youth, especially in the darker and harsher times that India is passing through,' notes Mohammad Sajjad. IMAGE:......

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