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Prolonged gas outage causes adverse effects on economy: Pak Minister
Updated : 4 years, 1 month ago IST
Karachi [Pakistan], January 31 (ANI): Amid the gas crisis in Pakistan's Sindh, the country's Provincial Minister for Industries & Commerce and Cooperative Department Jam Ikramullah Dharejo said the gas outage to industries in the province is having adverse effects on the economy and as a
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Does socioeconomic status affect outcomes post surgery? Research suggests
Updated : 4 years, 1 month ago IST
Chicago [US], January 31 (ANI): "Health is wealth" is a saying engrained in us since childhood, but does lack of "wealth" create complications in "health"? A new research sheds light on this.
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COVID lockdown hits pockets of middle-class, pushes them towards poverty
Updated : 4 years, 1 month ago IST
New Delhi [India], January 30 (ANI): As the nation fought COVID through lockdowns, the impact they had on the pockets of the middle-class is immense. From losing jobs to having to change vocations to make ends meet, lockdowns pushed this section of society towards poverty.
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Afghans sell kidneys as they face starvation
Updated : 4 years, 1 month ago IST
Herat [Afghanistan], January 28 (ANI): Families in Afghanistan's western province of Herat are being forced to sell their kidneys amid dire poverty and starvation.
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Mayawati slams UP, Bihar govts after students protests over RRB-NTPC resul
Updated : 4 years, 2 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], January 27 (ANI): Bahujan Samaj Party chief Mayawati on Thursday slammed the Uttar Pradesh and Bihar governments by holding them responsible for prevailing poverty and unemployment in the state, a day after students staged a massive protest against the Railway exam results
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Chandigarh Welfare Trust, an NGO for well-being, holistic development of C
Updated : 4 years, 2 months ago IST
Chandigarh (Punjab) [India], January 18 (ANI/PRNewswire): With the mission of creating a future full of opportunities, tolerance and social justice, with community well-being at its core, a first-of-its-kind NGO dedicated to development and welfare of the Chandigarh city-- Chandigarh Welf
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Wealth of 10 richest person doubled while incomes of 99 per cent people de
Updated : 4 years, 2 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], January 17 (ANI): The world's ten richest men more than doubled their fortunes from $700 billion to $1.5 trillion --at a rate of $15,000 per second or $1.3 billion a day-- during the first two years of a pandemic that has seen the incomes of 99 per cent of humanity fall an
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Displaced families sell children, organs to survive in Afghanistan
Updated : 4 years, 2 months ago IST
Kabul [Afghanistan], January 16 (ANI): Displaced families are selling children and organs to survive in war-ravaged Afghanistan under Taliban regime.
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Afghanistan: Number of teenagers involved in hard labour rises in Ghor pro
Updated : 4 years, 2 months ago IST
Kabul [Afghanistan], January 15 (ANI): Post-Taliban took control of Afghanistan, the number of poverty-stricken Ghor children involved in hard labour had surged.
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Pakistan's Sindh faces economic challenges as provincial citizen ranks low
Updated : 4 years, 2 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], January 11 (ANI): Pakistan's Sindh is marred with challenges including the financial one as the provincial citizen is at the lowest level on the poverty scale in the country, reported local media.
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State govt to provide free COVID treatment only for patients who fall unde
Updated : 4 years, 2 months ago IST
Guwahati (Assam) [India], January 7 (ANI): Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma on Friday announced that the state government will provide free of cost COVID treatment only to the patients who fall under the Below Poverty Line (BPL) category.
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Tejashwi Yadav slams Nitish Kumar govt over NITI Aayog ranking of Bihar
Updated : 4 years, 2 months ago IST
Patna (Bihar) [India], January 2 (ANI): Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) leader Tejashwi Yadav on Saturday slammed Chief Minister Nitish Kumar over Bihar's low ranking in NITI Aayog's poverty index baseline report and said that the "double-engine" government is responsible for this.
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