Janadesh 2007: Satyagraha for self-reliance, dignity

Grim reality of India's poverty dip

Remains of the day

Anti-Naxal operations a cover for exploiting tribal people

Chandauli, Mahoba district, Uttar Pradesh

Consumed by hunger

Drought unleashes starvation

Officials admit to 10 deaths in Jharkhand's backward district, actual number might be 20

Reading between poverty lines

Is the latest poverty estimate a true indicator of rural poor in India?  

Free from poverty line

Centre delinks access to welfare schemes from poverty line

Panchayats to get poverty alleviation funds

Tribals continue to be robbed of land in Erode

My father used to say that an adivasi without land is like a living corpse

Should NABARD regulate micro-finance?

NREGA needs a paradigm shift

Budget leak backward districts get short shrift

24 deaths in 2 months

Tax the wealthy: 2 billion people can be lifted from poverty by levying the super-rich, says Oxfam

Gap between the rich and the poor broadened over the past two years

Not a bankable strategy

World Bank's forestry projects have not helped reduce poverty, says its own evaluator

BPL's dividing line

Government undecided on criteria to identify families below poverty line

Denial of the rural

India lifted 271 mln people out of poverty in 10 yrs, claims govt report

The poverty estimates used to back the claims, however, are decade old

Forgotten people Chambal's Bor Khedi villagers are still called the criminal tribe

Sunita's Bytes on Budget

Economy of slippage

Spreading message

Prices rise, not hunger

People prefer to eat less nutritious food than go hungry, says FAO