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"This is India's time...opportunities, income increasing and poverty is re
Updated : 2 years, 1 month ago IST
Noting that a time comes in a country's development journey when all conditions are in its favour, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday said that positive sentiment that exists for India's capability and success in the world did not exist earlier.
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Afghanistan's struggling economy led to deflation, poverty: World Bank Rep
Updated : 2 years, 1 month ago IST
According to the report, Afghanistan has been facing economic challenges due to reduced aggregate demand, including factors like the stronger local currency, dwindling household savings, reduced public spending, and the ban on opium cultivation.
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Hardeep Puri hits back at Opposition's criticism of Interim Budget, calls
Updated : 2 years, 1 month ago IST
Union Minister Hardeep Singh Puri hit back at the opposition's criticism of the Interim Budget, stating that 250 million people have been lifted out of multi-dimensional poverty in the last 10 years.
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KIYG 2023: Weightlifter Jyoshna rises from poverty in remote Odisha villag
Updated : 2 years, 1 month ago IST
The 15-year old daughter of a small-time farmer father and homemaker mother has risen from this impoverished background to become one of India's leading junior weightlifters. After winning bronze at the World Youth Championships in Albania last year, she shattered the national snatch record
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Karpoori Thakur's life was dedicated to social justice, empowering the dep
Updated : 2 years, 2 months ago IST
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday lauded the contribution of former Bihar Chief Minister Karpoori Thakur, who has been conferred Bharat Ratna, saying that he rose to high position while dealing with challenges of social injustice and poverty
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"Had Subhas Chandra Bose been country's first Prime Minister...": Suvendu
Updated : 2 years, 2 months ago IST
"I believe that if Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose had been the country's first Prime Minister, then our country would not have been Partitioned. Everyone in India would have been happy. India would have been rid of poverty, unemployment and corruption," Adhikari said speaking to reporters aft
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Pakistan faced worst economic crises in 2023: Human Rights Watch
Updated : 2 years, 2 months ago IST
Human Rights Watch observed that the insistence of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) on austerity and the removal of subsidies without adequate compensatory measures resulted in additional hardship for low-income groups in Pakistan.
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"NITI Aayog is cheerleader of PM Modi..." Congress brushes off poverty dat
Updated : 2 years, 2 months ago IST
Jairam Ramesh, while speaking to ANI, also discarded the public policy think tank's report that nearly 25 crore people were moved out of poverty in the last nine years.
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"It took PM Modi's leadership to lift 25 crore Indians from poverty": Unio
Updated : 2 years, 2 months ago IST
"After 65 years of empty slogans of 'Garibi Hatao', Prime Minister Narendra Modi through his focused, hardworking, determined, corruption-free governance and 'Garib Kalyan' policies, has lifted 25 crore Indians out of poverty," Chandrasekhar said at a press conference in New Delhi.
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"Garibi Hatao was a jumla...PM Modi actually removed poverty": Rajasthan C
Updated : 2 years, 2 months ago IST
Calling the 'Garibi Hatao' (Remove Poverty) slogan a jumla (false promise), which was given by Congress in 1971, Rajasthan Chief Minister Bhajanlal Sharma on Monday said that it is Prime Minister Narendra Modi who actually made efforts to remove poverty in the country, adding that previou
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24.82 crore Indians escaped Multidimensional Poverty in last 9 years, Inde
Updated : 2 years, 2 months ago IST
Uttar Pradesh registered the largest decline in the number of poor with 5.94 crore people escaping multidimensional poverty during the last nine years followed by Bihar at 3.77 crore, Madhya Pradesh at 2.30 crore and Rajasthan at 1.87 crore.
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Pradhan Mantri Anusuchit Jaati Abhuyday Yojana aims to reduce poverty in S
Updated : 2 years, 2 months ago IST
Pradhan Mantri Anusuchit Jaati Abhuyday Yojana (PM-AJAY) is a merged scheme of the three Centrally Sponsored Schemes, namely Pradhan Mantri Adarsh Gram Yojana (PMAGY), Special Central Assistance to Scheduled Castes Sub Plan (SCA to SCSP) and Babu Jagjivan Ram Chhatrawas Yojana(BJRCY), said U
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