Poverty Controversy

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  "Will Ram Mandir Eradicate Poverty?" Karnataka Minister Triggers Outrage

  Karnataka Labour Minister Santosh Lad stirred a fresh controversy as he asked whether the Ram Mandir construction in Ayodhya would eradicate poverty.

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  Andhra Pradesh Home Minister Under Fire For Controversial Remarks On Rape

  She has blamed "psychological situation" and poverty for incidents of rape and even claimed the accused didn't intend to rape.

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  PM Breaks Silence on Dadri, Says Hindus and Muslims Should Fight Poverty, Not Each Other

  At the height of a war of words over beef, Prime Minister Narendra Modi today took a sharp dig at Lalu Prasad Yadav while campaigning in Bihar and was promptly attacked by Nitish Kumar for his "deafening silence" on the mob killing in Dadri in Uttar Pradesh.

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  Carlos Tevez Stirs Up Controversy With Comment on Poverty in Argentina

  Carlos Tevez has been called a "Europeanized scum" by a few after the footballer said he was shocked to see the poverty in Argentina's northern province of Formosa.

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  Opinion: India's Poverty is Social Violence

  India's poor are exiled from the hope that their children or their grandchildren will one day escape a life of backbreaking toil and social humiliation, says Harsh Mander.

• New Poverty Line: Rs 32 Per Day in Villages, Rs 47 In Cities

  Anyone who spends more than Rs 32 a day in villages and more than Rs 47 in cities is not poor, an expert panel has recommended to the government, igniting a major controversy for the government as Parliament meets for the budget session.

• 'As always, Congress is wrong about Gujarat': BJP on poverty controversy

  The BJP today said that if the Congress is outraged over the fact that Rs 10.80 is the marker used to identify who is eligible for government subsidies in Gujarat, it should look within. "As always, they're wrong about Gujarat," professed BJP spokesperson Nirmala Sitharaman.

• Bharat Ratna is not a fan with a seven-year warranty, says Congress: Highlights

  Congress leader Renuka Chowdhury takes on the Bharatiya Janata Party over the controversy over Dr Amartya Sen's remarks against Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi.

• Raj Babbar says Mumbai meal is Rs. 12. Delhi at Rs. 5, says colleague

  With the government under attack for claiming that poverty in India has declined by 22 per cent in seven years since it came to power, Congress spokesperson Raj Babbar added a new dimension to the controversy by declaring that it's possible, even today, to eat a complete meal in Mumbai for Rs 12.

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  Controversy over claim of 22% fall in poverty: your 10-point cheatsheet

  The Planning Commission's declaration that the number of poor in India has fallen to 22% of the population in the last seven years has evoked strong protests from the opposition and from an important ally, Sharad Pawar's Nationalist Congress Party or NCP.

• Not poor at Rs 27 a day: plan panel's latest report

  As it preps for general elections, the Congress-led UPA government has got some brownie points from a planning commission report that said poverty, both in rural and urban India, had declined in the last eight years. But the panel continues to use controversial poverty benchmarks, in this report capped at Rs 27 a day for rural India.

• Poverty in India drops to 21.9 per cent in 2011-12: Planning Commission

  Virtually sticking to its earlier controversial way of calculating poverty figures, Planning Commission said on Tuesday the number of people living below the poverty line has shrunk in both urban and rural areas.

• India's poverty line likely to be revisited by new panel

  In the wake of the Planning Commission's controversial definition of povery last year, a new panel is likely to be formed to consider the country's socio-economic profile being brought out by the Socio Economic Caste Census (SECC) to determine the poverty line.

• Israel OKs harsh penalties for illegal migrants

  Israel's parliament on Tuesday approved harsh new penalties on illegal migrants and Israelis who help them, passing one of several controversial measures designed to stanch the flood of Africans seeking sanctuary from poverty and conflict.

• Planning Panel drew controversy on Rs 32/day poverty line issue in 2011

  NGOs, commentators and the common man all alike criticised the Planning panel's description of the poor.