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In conflict-hit South Sudan, rare mental health clinics offering crucial counselling risk closure as funding ends. With poverty, displacement and violence fuelling high suicide rates, experts warn the loss of such services could deepen the country’s mental health crisis.

Union Minister Nitin Gadkari stressed creating jobs and reducing poverty through balanced economic policies. Speaking to CA students, he warned against wealth centralisation, highlighted infrastructure progress, and praised domestic investment methods like InvIT bonds for funding major road projects without foreign aid

By August 15, we aim to identify 1.5 million bangaru kutumbams (golden families, beneficiaries) and appoint one lakh margadarsis (guides, benefactors) under P4, Naidu said.

Rachakonda Police Commissioner G Sudheer Babu has announced intensified efforts to eradicate child labour and human trafficking under Operation Muskaan-XI. Special teams are rescuing children, and worksite schools are being established to support the education of migrant children

A comprehensive framework that promotes inclusivity at all levels is a must for ensuring social justice

Rural development must measure not just what people earn but also how they live

Though overshadowed by wars and the return of Trump, the summit in Brazil raised debates on revitalising multilateralism

8% of the Indians are the consuming class while 1 billion Indians are the ghosts in the consumer market

Without robust investment and coordinated efforts, TB will continue to thwart India’s health goals

In urban areas, the poverty level decreased from 13.4 per cent to 8.4 per cent. The decline in poverty in rural areas has been sharper than in urban areas

The report, authored by noted economists, saw the findings as an encouraging development and said, time has come for India to graduate to higher poverty line, much like other developed counterparts

The steep decline in the multi-dimensional poverty index from 13.18 per cent to 3.76 per cent is a befitting answer to the canards being spread in the name of white paper on the State finances.

Telangana has emerged a frontrunner in the multidimensional poverty index (MPI), witnessing a steep decline from 13.18 percentage points in 2015-16 to 3.76 percentage points in 2022-23

Increasing wealth inequality and shrinking opportunities for the youth negates India’s ‘fastest growing’ tag

The accused was identified as Padmini Dandia of Gutingia village of Kandhamal district. She was arrested on Tuesday, the officer said.

A good economic order must incorporate elements of classic capitalism with classic socialism to make it economic pluralism.

Sravanthi, the second of three daughters of sheep rearer Swamy and beedi roller Nagamani, is now finding that the challenge of poverty is not yet ready to let her go.

Chief Minister K Chandrashekhar Rao introduced Dalit Bandhu scheme with an objective to eradicate poverty among SCs. Suman said the Dalit Bandhu scheme was implemented only in Telangana and added that about 30,000 units have been grounded so far with Rs.3,600 crore.

Hyderabad: Poverty, hardships, and family responsibilities did not deter Laxmikanth Reddy Emreddy. Born in the coal city of Godavarikhani in Karimnagar district, Laxmikanth has now polished himself to become a diamond. After a struggle of almost two decades, this Telangana lad has now secured a place in the PGPX programme at the prestigious Indian Institute […]

Despite a surfeit of welfare models being experimented across the world, the gulf between the rich and the poor has been widening. The pandemic has made the world more unequal, with wealth distribution becoming more skewed than ever before. In the case of India, the inequality is all the more stark. The latest ‘State of […]