Six orphan siblings submitted a memorandum to the district magistrate of Kannauj, 125 km from Lucknow, seeking permission to kill themselves as they had no food. The petition was submitted to District Magistrate Selva Kumari J. …
According to the United Nations, a mother dies every ten minutes in India which means that along with malnutrition caused by poverty, India is likely to miss the Millennium Development Goal (MDG) related to maternal health as …
Though India's poverty rates fell from 51% to 37% between 1990 and 2008 it will still not reach the required Poverty Headcount Ratio (percentage of population below the national poverty line) of 23.9% by 2015 to achieve the …
