It is unbelievable but true! More than 25,000 people die every day of hunger or hunger-related causes, according to the United Nations. One child dies of hunger-related causes every five seconds, taking a toll on 16,000 poor hungry children each day.
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The great wall of poverty dividing China
A three-hour bus ride from the shopping malls of central Beijing, Yongfengtun, a village north-west of the city, reveals the flip-side of China's economic expansion: deepening inequality that has undermined confidence.
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Poverty And Corruption – India’s Invincible Twins Patronized by Burgeoning Populace: By Dr. Bikkar Singh Lalli
“Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed,” (D. Eisenhower). Thus, every dollar a crook steals, in the Indian corrupt set-up, increases the hunger in India. India has been rocked this year by a series of corruption scandals that have embarrassed the ruling Congress party, rattled markets and delayed reform bills as the opposition stalls Parliament. It is an irony that an ancient civilization like India where highest human values like universal love, environmental worship, charity, kindness, bravery and forgiveness was taught has produced a self-centered and greed infested society. The most disquieting aspect of the widespread corruption in India is the fact that it is not anymore confined to politicians or the government machinery alone. It is prevalent amongst almost every section of the society at every level. There are layers after layers of corruption in every societal channel, which cannot be removed even if hundreds of individuals like Manmohan Singh try their best.
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After poverty, booze kills
20,000 women will stage a morcha to demand that Vidarbha be declared dry, after suffering due to alcohol- related deaths
More than 20,000 women from Vidharba district of Maharashtra, infamous for its farmer suicides, are expected to march today to a small village in Yavatmal, to demand that the district be declared dry.
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Nitin Gadkari blames Congress rule for poverty
Blaming policies of successive Congress governments for the plight of the poor, BJP president Nitin Gadkari today said that the amount of money involved in the second-generation mobile telephony spectrum and Commonwealth Games scams was enough to eradicate poverty.
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