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Govt. reaches out to farming community, raises credit to Rs. 10 lakh crore
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Feb 1 (ANI): Asserting that the government's focus is on rural areas, alleviation of poverty and boosting infrastructure, Finance Minister Arun Jaitley in his budget for 2017-18 announced to raise credit to farmers to Rs. 10 lakh crore.
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Manipur's Asian Games hero now battling cancer, poverty
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
New Delhi, Jan.31 (ANI): Dingko Singh, who made Manipur proud by clinching a gold medal in boxing at the 1998 Asian Games is fighting for his survival as he is going toe-to-toe with bile-duct cancer.
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KCR for comprehensive plan for welfare of SCs, STs
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
Hyderabad (Telangana) [India], Jan. 27(ANI): Telangana Chief Minister K. Chandrashekhar Rao on Friday expressed his agony that despite several programmes, schemes and plans for the SC/STs since independence, there is still poverty among these communities.
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Tackling unemployment, poverty tops Congress' Goa poll manifesto
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
Panjim, Goa [India], Jan 23 (ANI): Amid the hustle and bustle of assembly polls in five states, the Indian National Congress released their manifesto for the 2017 state assembly elections in Goa in Panjim on Monday.
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UN chief calls businesses 'best allies' to curb climate change,
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
Davos [Switzerland], Jan. 20 (ANI): Addressing the World Economic Forum in Davos, United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Thursday called for a new generation of partnerships with the business community to limit the impact of climate change and to reduce poverty.
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Sri Lankan PM pledges to reduce poverty by half in next four years
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
Colombo [Sri Lanka], Jan. 15 (ANI): Sri Lankan Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe has promised to reduce poverty by half in the next four years and make Sri Lanka a high income country by 2030.
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India, US agree to cooperate in reducing poverty through sustainable econo
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Jan. 14 (ANI): The United States and India have agreed to cooperate in the Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC) with a common aim of reducing poverty globally through sustainable economic growth.
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India, Bangladesh to continue joint fight against poverty, terrorism, fund
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
Agartala (Tripura) [India], Dec. 31 (ANI): A former Bangladeshi foreign minister has said that India and Bangladesh shall continue to fight together against poverty, terrorism and fundamentalism.
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Govt. issues 1.5 crore LPG connections to poor under PMUY scheme
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Dec. 30 (ANI): 1.5 core LPG connections have been issued to the Below Poverty Line (BPL) households under the Pradhan Mantri Ujjwala Yojana (PMUY) scheme, the petroleum ministry said on Thursday.
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Sri Lanka to establish 'Happy Villages' to eliminate poverty
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
Colombo [Sri Lanka], Dec.28 (ANI): The Sri Lankan government will next month launch the ambitious 'Happy Villages' project with the aim of empowering communities to eliminate poverty.
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Congress slams NITI Aayog's scheme to incentivise digital payments
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Dec. 11 (ANI): Slamming the National Institution for Transforming India (NITI) Aayog's decision to reward Rs.1 crore for promoting e-payment, Congress leader Sandeep Dikshit on Sunday questioned the government whether cashless exchange was more important to it than po
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JobsForHer partners with Global Action on poverty to bring women back to t
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Dec 8 (ANI): JobsForHer (JFH), a connecting portal enabling women on a professional break to restart their careers announces its partnership with Global Action on Poverty (GAP) an initiative of Head Held High (HHH) Foundation aiming to alleviate poverty. The main objective
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