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World Bank 'to step up support' for India's poorest : NEW DELHI - World Bank President Jim Yong Kim said Wednesday the institution will funnel more development support to India's poorest states as part of its drive to end poverty globally within a generation. Kim, on his first trip to the nation of 1.2 ... AsiaOne

Thousands attend Imran Khan's rally against corruption in Pakistan : After over a decade of trying to gain a foothold in Pakistani politics, he has finally elbowed his way into the big league. Casting himself as a populist anti- corruption crusader challenging the traditional political elites, he is seen as a threat to ... NDTV

India emerging as global development partner: US This would also help "bring Indian resources and talent and entrepreneurship to Africa, Burma, Afghanistan , Bangladesh, and a number of other settings as India takes more responsibility on the global stage for ending extreme poverty and its ...

B'desh poverty rate to decrease below 15pc by 2021: Razzaque : The poverty rate in Bangladesh will decrease below 15 per cent and most of the people will be able to consume 2,122 kilocalories of food everyday by 2021, said Food Minister Muhammad Abdur Razzaque in an article published by an international food ... Australia-Malaysia | 中国 | 日本 | 한국 | ราชอาณาจักรไทย | Tiếng Việt | Stigmabase | eGAYlity

`Half of Bihar's population below poverty line in 2009-10` : `Half of Bihar's population below poverty line in 2009-10` New Delhi : More than half the population in Bihar lived below the poverty line in 2009-10, Minister of State for Parliamentary Affairs and Planning Rajeev Shukla said in Parliament Thursday ...

Pakistan bans former president Pervez Musharraf from leaving country : Islamabad: Pakistan on Saturday stopped former president Pervez Musharraf from leaving the country a day after a court ordered it. The interior ministry issued directives to the immigration authorities to put Musharraf's name on the Exit Control List ... IBNLive

Mother of 4 Is Said to Be 110th Tibetan to Self-Immolate : Her death comes more than two months since a respected Tibetan writer, Naktsang Nulo, published an online essay calling for the Dalai Lama to ask Tibetans to stop self-immolating. Unusually, the essay is still available on China's censored Internet ... New York Times (blog)

'Chinese leadership's political will can resolve Tibet issue' : `Chinese leadership`s political will can resolve Tibet issue` Washington: The Tibetan issue, including a wave of self-immolation protests, can be resolved if the new Chinese leadership shows "political will" to address their grievances, an envoy of the ... Australia-Malaysia | 中国 | 日本 | 한국 | ราชอาณาจักรไทย | Tiếng Việt | Stigmabase | eGAYlity

Tibetan Administration deplores China sentencing over self-immolations : The Tibetan Central Administration has reported on March 23, 2013, Dharamsala deplores China sentencing Tibetans over self-immolation. Recently, a Chinese court in Tsongkha Khar in Tsoshar in eastern Tibet 's Amdo Province, sentenced three Tibetans ...

Pakistani Taliban withdraw offer of peace talks with government : PESHAWAR, Pakistan -- The Pakistani Taliban on Monday withdrew their offer of holding peace talks with the government, saying that the authorities were not serious about following through with negotiations. The Taliban statement came as a pair of ... CTV News

Increased population in Myanmar-Bangladesh border threatens poverty ... Over population in Myanmar- Bangladesh border area has been the main challenge to poverty elimination. An aid worker working with one of the UN agency said assistance from the international organisations have been pouring into these areas for years but ...

Israel and Turkey Agree to Restore Diplomatic Ties : Israel and Turkey agreed to restore full diplomatic relations on Friday after Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu apologized in a phone call for a deadly naval raid against a Gaza-bound international flotilla in a dramatic turnaround partly brokered by ... ABC News

Cruel Harvest: US Intervention In The Afghan Drug Trade : The suffering imposed on Third World countries by elite nations for political and economic gain is scandalous. Afghanistan , a country destroyed by decades of outside interference, is but one example. Juliam Mercille's short yet detailed analysis of ...

Israel condemns award to Hungarian reporter it calls anti-Semitic : Israel and a European human rights official criticized Hungary on Monday for presenting an award to a television journalist they accuse of anti-Semitism. A dozen former recipients of the Tancsics prize for journalistic excellence handed their awards ... Haaretz

Mongolia Seeks to Play Peacemaker as North Korea Declares 'War' : Mongolia called for six-party talks to be resumed after North Korea said it's in a “state of war” with its neighbor to the south. “ Mongolia would like to extend its relationship with North Korea,” Prime Minister Norovyn Altankhuyag said at a press ...

Out-of-school children's percentage highest in poorest families : Monday, March 18, 2013 - Lahore—Many poor families in Pakistan are not able to send their children to school because of poverty and the highest percentage of out-of-school children (46%) is among the poorest of poor families. A recent survey conducted ...

Pakistan denies asking Afghanistan to snap ties with India Pakistan on Friday rejected Afghanistan's contention that Islamabad had asked Kabul to sever all ties with New Delhi. On Thursday, an AFP report from Kabul quoted Afghan President Hamid Karzai's spokesman Aimal Faizi as saying that Pakistan “demanded ...

Reported sex crimes up after Indian gang-rape Indian police have attributed the rise to more confidence among victims to report complaints. "More women are shedding their inhibitions and registering complaints with us. After the December 16 gang-rape, nobody in Delhi wants to brush crime under the ...

Poverty reduction lesson for India in Nepal, Rwanda NEW DELHI: For lessons in poverty alleviation, India should turn to its poorer neighbours. An Oxford University study of 22 countries, released this week, has found Nepal and Bangladesh to be among the top three nations, along with Rwanda, that have ...

PM for 'collective wisdom' against poverty : ... Ambassadors and the High Commissioners of the CIRDAP member countries to Bangladesh , the Prime Minister said their cooperation could make the ICT Centre a hub and a place of sharing the best practices on rural development and poverty alleviation.

Helping a Woman, a Village and the Whole World In 1971, Dr. Yunus returned to his native Bangladesh with a PhD in economics from Vanderbilt University. He was oppressed by the crushing poverty in a neighboring village and wanted to help. He made a $6 loan to a woman basket weaver making 2 cents a ...

Afghan Region Makes Name For Drug Mules, Tragedy : Those dangers hit home recently as locals buried the bodies of 10 men from Kalafgan who were hanged in Iran, reportedly for drug smuggling . Residents say that in the past six months they have buried 80 villagers who were executed in Iran. As many as ... RadioFreeEurope/RadioLiberty

France's Hollande juggles trade and rights in Moscow : PARIS (Reuters) - President Francois Hollande will aim to balance French concerns over Russia's human rights record with a push to boost trade ties during a debut Moscow visit on Thursday that could prove a diplomatic obstacle course. An encounter in ... Australia-Malaysia | 中国 | 日本 | 한국 | ราชอาณาจักรไทย | Tiếng Việt | Stigmabase | eGAYlity