KLANG: Indian community leaders should avoid extreme sentiments as it would not be beneficial in any way, says Prime Minister Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim. “This is not a government which merely speaks without implementation,” said Anwar at the state-level Ponggal celebrations at Padang Chetty on Saturday (Jan 20). He added the government received many demands … Read more
Congress on Thursday questioned the Modi government’s claim that 250 million people in the country were alleviated from poverty in the last nine years. If the claim was right, why did not the consumption rate increase and why did the Centre still provide free food to crores of people, the main Opposition party asked. Disputing … Read more
NEW DELHI: The combined effect of poverty and chronic inflammation could more than double the risk of death from heart disease and triple the mortality risk due to cancer over a 15-year period, new research in the US has found. Poverty has been documented to individually heighten the risk of mental illness, heart disease, hypertension, … Read more
Dr Villanueva added that labourers who serve as primary breadwinners in Filipino households are especially at risk, as they are often outdoors. For them, getting infected could mean losing their primary income source while they recover from the disease. “It’s not just a health problem but also an economic burden to those affected families,” she … Read more
Minister of Humanitarian Affairs and Poverty Alleviation, Betta Edu, on Tuesday, said the budgetary envelope for her ministry in the 2024 budget was incapable of tackling poverty in the country. The minister said this when she appeared to defend the 2024 budget of her ministry before the National Assembly Joint Committee on Humanitarian Affairs and … Read more
However, a new film based on her inspirational life has sharply divided opinion between the public and the state. When Zhang founded her boarding school in a remote area of China’s southwestern Yunnan province 15 years ago, many of the local girls would drop out early to marry or earn a living, while the boys … Read more
