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Expensive taped sneakers trigger outrage for glorifying poverty
Updated : 7 years, 6 months ago IST
New Delhi [India] Sep 20(ANI): An unusual pair of sneakers has triggered outrage on social media.
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Gates Foundation's report calls for focus on health, education in poorest
Updated : 7 years, 6 months ago IST
Seattle [United States], Sep 18 (NewsVoir): The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation today launched its second annual Goalkeepers Data Report, pointing to demographic trends that could stall unprecedented progress in reducing global poverty.
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Rajasthan govt to provide free mobile phones to women of BPL families
Updated : 7 years, 6 months ago IST
Jaipur (Rajasthan) [India], Sep 4 (ANI): In a bid to boost Prime Minister Narendra Modi's flagship 'Digital India' campaign, Rajasthan government will soon distribute mobile phones to women under the Bhamashah Yojana. Focused on women who fall under the Below Poverty Line (BPL), the scheme a
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BIMSTEC members call for seamless connectivity, poverty eradication
Updated : 7 years, 6 months ago IST
Kathmandu [Nepal], Aug 31 (ANI): The member states of the Bay of Bengal Initiative for Multi-Sectoral Technical and Economic Cooperation (BIMSTEC) have agreed for establishing seamless connectivity within the region and committed to work for the eradication of poverty by 2030.
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BIMSTEC: Nepal PM calls for eradication of poverty
Updated : 7 years, 6 months ago IST
Kathmandu [Nepal], Aug 30 (ANI): Nepal Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli while addressing the Bay of Bengal Initiative for Multi-Sectoral Technical and Economic Cooperation (BIMSTEC) summit pressed on the need of eliminating poverty to give people a prosperous future.
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Bill and Melinda Gates to host second annual Goalkeepers Event
Updated : 7 years, 7 months ago IST
Seattle (United States), Aug 22 (NewsVoir): Bill and Melinda Gates, co-chairs of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, will gather emerging and established leaders in government and business, as well as activists and performers, at Goalkeepers 2018 in New York City, September 25-26. In its se
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UP Minister backs demand for separate Purvanchal state
Updated : 7 years, 7 months ago IST
Varanasi (Uttar Pradesh) [India], Aug 4 (ANI): Uttar Pradesh Minister Om Prakash Rajbhar has backed the proposal of a separate Purvanchal state, saying that illiteracy, poverty and unemployment could only be eliminated if the division takes place.
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Homeless man flooded with job offers after he hands out resumes
Updated : 7 years, 8 months ago IST
Washington DC, [USA] July 29 (ANI): Several companies approached a homeless man with job offers after he started to hand out resumes instead of begging in order to alleviate himself out of poverty.
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Efforts towards increasing income of poor in Jharkhand
Updated : 7 years, 8 months ago IST
Dumka (Jharkhand) [India], July 19 (ANI): There are still many states in the country that are behind the average rate of growth and whose GDP is significantly below the projected target. Jharkhand figures prominently in this category.
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Poverty drives K'taka farmer to work as cattle
Updated : 7 years, 8 months ago IST
Kalaburagi (Karnataka) [India], July 12 (ANI): A poor farmer and his wife have been working as cattle on the field in Nandhikoor village of Kalaburagi, Karnataka.
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Muslim intellectuals advise Rahul to avoid talking about the community in
Updated : 7 years, 8 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], July 11 (ANI): In a meeting with 12 Muslim intellectuals here on Wednesday, Congress President Rahul Gandhi was advised not to talk about Muslim community in particular and rather speak on issues like poverty and education on a whole.
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Son of college peon makes it to Indian football team
Updated : 7 years, 8 months ago IST
Muzaffarnagar (Uttar Pradesh) [India], July 6 (ANI): Defying all odds and poverty, son of a college peon at Mangal Bahadur Janata Inter College in Muzaffarnagar's Bhopa area has made it to the Indian national football team.
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