Urban romances and stories set in Delhi and Mumbai have dominated Hindi films for the past few years. But the same can't be said about ...
12:33 PM, May 30, 2012
New Delhi: About 60 per cent of India's rural population lives on less than Rs 35 a day and nearly as many in cities live on Rs 66 a day, reveals a government survey on income and expenditure. "In terms of average per capita daily expenditure, it comes out to be about Rs 35 in rural and Rs 66 in urban India. About 60 per cent of the population live...
04:50 PM, May 03, 2012
Mumbai: The World Bank will not reduce its financial assistance at the moment to India for poverty alleviation measures because official data has shown the number of poor people has declined. The international funding agency takes a long-term view on its commitments and the poverty data released on Monday will not have any bearing on that commitment, World Bank (WB) Country Head N Roberto Zagha told PTI on the sidelines...
03:02 AM, Mar 22, 2012
Patna: Flaying the Planning Commission's assessment that a person earning Rs 29 daily should not be deemed as poor, the CPI on Wednesday described the panel as a club of "anti-poor" people. CPI national secretary Atul Kumar Anjaan said it was "ridiculous" that the Planning Commission has described a person earning Rs 29 a day as not poor. "It will be appropriate to describe the commission as a club of...
01:42 AM, Mar 22, 2012
Planning Commission on Monday further reduced poverty line to Rs 28.65 per capita daily consumption in cities and Rs 22.42 in rural areas, scaling down India's poverty ratio to 29.8 per cent in 2009-10. ...
11:55 PM, Mar 21, 2012
New Delhi: Planning Commission on Monday further reduced poverty line to Rs 28.65 per capita daily consumption in cities and Rs 22.42 in rural areas, scaling down India's poverty ratio to 29.8 per cent in 2009-10, the estimates which are likely to raise the hackles of civil society. An individual above a monthly consumption of Rs 859.6 in urban and Rs 672.8 in rural areas is not considered poor, as...
11:29 PM, Mar 19, 2012
Coimbatore: Former President Dr APJ Abdul Kalam on Friday suggested the setting up of vision centers and mobile eye clinics by all the eye care centres, which can service the needs of rural patients, to improve the availability of eyecare facility to them. "South India has made considerable progress in the mission of reducing the avoidable blindness among the citizens, which must percolate to all the States in the country,"...
05:28 AM, Oct 15, 2011
In his award-winning documentary 'Last Train Home', director Lixin Fan draws attention to the plight of migrant Chinese workers living in far-flung industrial cities and the strain they inflict on the country's infrastructure when some 130 million of them make their annual journey back home for the Chinese New Year. It's a film that highlights the social costs of the Chinese economic miracle. It's a film about disillusionment and displacement....
11:30 AM, Sep 15, 2011
Ajay started 'Harva' with a vision to help villages access and harness the opportunities that urban India offers. ...
10:39 AM, Jun 25, 2011
Bhubaneswar: RBI Governor D Subbarao has said that rising prosperity in rural India is leading to food scarcity, which is driving up food prices. "Since rural incomes are going up, people are eating better by shifting from cereal to protein (rich diet) and it is leading to food scarcity," Subbarao told students of the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Bhubaneswar on Saturday. Food inflation, which has been hovering in double...
03:34 PM, Feb 27, 2011
Bangalore: Is it a stove or a lamp? "It is actually both," says engineer-inventor Anil Rajvanshi, developer of a dual purpose device that simultaneously solves the twin problem of cooking and lighting in rural homes that do not have electricity. A lantern, which burns kerosene to produce bright light and also doubles up as a cooking stove, is the latest invention from Nimbkar Agricultural Research Institute (NARI) at Phaltan in...
01:54 PM, Feb 14, 2011
New Delhi: India's annual education survey has some good and bad news on the country’s education. According to the survey, though 96 per cent children in the age group of 6 -14 years in rural India are enrolled in school, but what they learn there leaves much to be desired. The good news is that eight months into the right to education, the number of children in rural India not...
07:00 PM, Jan 14, 2011
New Delhi: The dynamics of rural India will be presented through fine print at the 16th edition of the Delhi Book Fair to be held from 25th December in Pragati Maidan. The fair is held in collaboration between the India Trade Promotion Organisation (ITPO) and the Federation of Indian Publishers (FIP). It will host 270 Indian and foreign publishers from countries like China, Pakistan and Iran, among others. On display...
11:52 AM, Dec 21, 2010
Indrani Medhi, a post graduate from Illinois in the United States, is trying to take computer to those people who cannot read or write. ...
03:59 PM, Oct 25, 2010
Bangalore: An Information Technology researcher, who has introduced those who cannot read or write to the digital world. CNN-IBN's Young Indian Leader awards is a special initiative to honour the young who have chartered their own destiny and proved the power of youth. She can't speak Kannada and the women with her like Mariamma can't read or write but the language barrier hasn't stopped Indrani Medhi, a post graduate from...
02:59 PM, Oct 25, 2010
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