Tag: India poverty
Girl starves to death over not linking Aadhaar, Ration cards
A 11-year-old girl from Jharkhand’s Simdega district has died of starvation after her family was refused subsidised rations on the grounds that their ration card was not linke to an Aadhaar card.
Nepal, Bangladesh reducing poverty faster than India, says study
NEPAL and Bangladesh are reducing poverty faster compared to India, according to a new study based on the multidimensional poverty index developed at the University of Oxford and used by the UN Development Programme (UNDP) in its Human Development Reports.
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No foul play in Mandissa’s death, police say
While no cause of death has been revealed, Franklin Police Department officials in Tennessee said Monday that no foul play is suspected.
