Maharashtra Poverty

Upcoming Lok Sabha elections are a fight between Prime Minister Narendra Modi whose government has lifted 25 crore people out of poverty and the leadership of Congress leader Rahul Gandhi, Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis said on T

Four persons were arrested in Maharashtra's Palghar district for allegedly selling a two-year-old boy for Rs 2.35 lakh by taking advantage of the poverty of his parents, a police official said on Thursday.

Struck by extreme poverty, a 32-year-old woman from Shirdi town in Maharashtra's Ahmednagar district allegedly sold her three-day-old son to a man in Mumbai for Rs 1.78 lakh, police said on Wednesday.

A man surrendered before the police after allegedly stabbing his 73-year-old father to death over a property dispute in Maharashtra's Nagpur city on Wednesday, police said.

A tribal woman, reportedly unable to cope with extreme property accentuated by the coronavirus crisis, died by suicide in Maharashtra's Palghar district, around 150km from Mumbai.

The Congress today cited statistics released by the Election Commission to claim a "moral defeat" for the BJP in the Maharashtra and Haryana assembly polls, maintaining that its "insensitivity" towards the poor has finally begun to have an impact on its electoral performance.

A poverty-stricken 35-year-old man allegedly killed his son and daughter before committing suicide at a village in Maharashtra, police said today.

The Maharashtra government has decided to adopt e-tendering of sugar from the open market to supply below poverty line (BPL) beneficiaries under the public distribution system.

In Maharashtra, over 50,000 people who were supposed to get houses are now forced to observe Diwali as homeless.

Urban poverty levels in Maharashtra dropped by a massive 47 per cent in 2011-2012, according to the latest poverty estimates by the Planning Commission.

The total number of poor in the country has been estimated at 34.47 crore in 2009-10.

Farmers in Vidarbha district of Maharashtra are a desperate lot. Poverty has pushed them to do the unthinkable. Kishan Rao Dapurkar, a farmer, is tilling his land using his sons instead of bullocks.

It may be one of the richest states in the country but Maharashtra is also known for its sharp inequalities. National data shows that poverty in Maharashtra is rising. Yet, strangely, Maharashtra has slashed the number of families below the poverty line by over two and a half lakhs in the last one year. The state is grappling with farmers' suicides...

Upcoming Lok Sabha elections are a fight between Prime Minister Narendra Modi whose government has lifted 25 crore people out of poverty and the leadership of Congress leader Rahul Gandhi, Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis said on T

Four persons were arrested in Maharashtra's Palghar district for allegedly selling a two-year-old boy for Rs 2.35 lakh by taking advantage of the poverty of his parents, a police official said on Thursday.

Struck by extreme poverty, a 32-year-old woman from Shirdi town in Maharashtra's Ahmednagar district allegedly sold her three-day-old son to a man in Mumbai for Rs 1.78 lakh, police said on Wednesday.

A man surrendered before the police after allegedly stabbing his 73-year-old father to death over a property dispute in Maharashtra's Nagpur city on Wednesday, police said.

A tribal woman, reportedly unable to cope with extreme property accentuated by the coronavirus crisis, died by suicide in Maharashtra's Palghar district, around 150km from Mumbai.

The Congress today cited statistics released by the Election Commission to claim a "moral defeat" for the BJP in the Maharashtra and Haryana assembly polls, maintaining that its "insensitivity" towards the poor has finally begun to have an impact on its electoral performance.

A poverty-stricken 35-year-old man allegedly killed his son and daughter before committing suicide at a village in Maharashtra, police said today.

The Maharashtra government has decided to adopt e-tendering of sugar from the open market to supply below poverty line (BPL) beneficiaries under the public distribution system.

In Maharashtra, over 50,000 people who were supposed to get houses are now forced to observe Diwali as homeless.

Urban poverty levels in Maharashtra dropped by a massive 47 per cent in 2011-2012, according to the latest poverty estimates by the Planning Commission.

The total number of poor in the country has been estimated at 34.47 crore in 2009-10.

Farmers in Vidarbha district of Maharashtra are a desperate lot. Poverty has pushed them to do the unthinkable. Kishan Rao Dapurkar, a farmer, is tilling his land using his sons instead of bullocks.

It may be one of the richest states in the country but Maharashtra is also known for its sharp inequalities. National data shows that poverty in Maharashtra is rising. Yet, strangely, Maharashtra has slashed the number of families below the poverty line by over two and a half lakhs in the last one year. The state is grappling with farmers' suicides...