Create your page here
Latest News for: Groupe slum
Edit
The politics of hunger
Dawn 20 Oct 2019
This could also be described as ‘hunger politics’, as extremist and hard-line Hindutva groups such as the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) have come to the government’s assistance and are systematically targeting slums occupied by low-caste Hindus to bring them into the fold of the overarching Hindu identity....
Edit
Abhijit Banerjee says higher taxes on businesses can fund welfare schemes
Live Mint 20 Oct 2019
New Delhi ... Edited excerpts of an interview. ... Do you agree? ... Your book Good Economics For Hard Times speaks of the infrastructure gaps in urban areas that make it difficult for migrants and low-income groups to find a living place other than in slums ... A bunch of reasons has reduced the purchasing power of the low-income groups ... ....
Edit
Romer: We are better than that
Vail Daily 17 Oct 2019
Bush at a Dallas Cowboys game ... “Here’s the thing,” she added ... Comments such as workforce housing being a ghetto (defined as “a part of a city, especially a slum area, occupied by a minority group or groups”), or placing “vote no” signs targeting a young professional woman running for town council who happens to be of Hispanic descent....
Edit
Saffron in the slums
Indian Express 16 Oct 2019
In Uttar Pradesh, slum dwellers constitute about 14 per cent of the urban population, according to the 2011 census ... Since Hindutva groups use religious identity as an important axis of social, political and cultural mobilisation, they have managed to link the economic aspiration in UP’s slums with religious empowerment ... The Group....
Edit
Pune: What’s the point of voting, ask sex workers in Budhwar Peth
Yahoo Daily News 16 Oct 2019
Tejaswi Sevekari, in charge of sex workers’ collective Saheli, said fearing more police raids, many sex workers had left the area ... Plus, there are no facilities... “I am in no mood to vote ... Kayakalp and John Paul Slum Development Project jointly provide targeted interventions in the high-risk group of sex workers to prevent HIV and other diseases ... ....
Edit
Girl footballers set sights on netas in Maharashtra poll season, submit manifesto seeking better facilities, RTE
The Times of India 13 Oct 2019
MUMBAI ... There is no toilet or changing room for us. We want the next government to change that,” said Makhwani ... The group, along with more girls in the slums of Nargis Dutt Nagar and Rahul Nagar, has drafted a manifesto and is handing it to the political parties ... The government needs to create awareness,” said Kajal Shedmake, a member of the group ... ....
Edit
Transfer of official worries residents in Bandra, Santacruz & Khar
Indian Express 12 Oct 2019
SEVERAL CITIZEN groups in Bandra, Santacruz and Khar have expressed concerns over the fate of ongoing public welfare projects following the transfer of Sharad Ughade, the assistant municipal commissioner of H-West Ward ... A social activists’ group comprising residents of Santacruz and Bandra was created ... The Group....
Edit
UAE student named goodwill ambassador for Mission Million 2020
Khaleej Times 11 Oct 2019
After distributing food to people in slum areas in Aligarh district in Uttar Pradesh, Tamanna launched a youth-run initiative called 'Serve the People' that feeds nearly 400 hungry people every day ... The group distributes apples, biscuits and a rice and lentil gruel to the hungry in slums in Aligarh's railway area and Jeevangarh ... Dhanusha Gokulan ... ....
Edit
Azad Nagar renamed after Ajgaonkar, tension ensues
The Times of India 09 Oct 2019
Dussehra celebrations at Azad Nagar, the slum area along Margao’s Konkan Railway station, acquired a political hue after a group of supporters of deputy chief minister Manohar Ajgaonkar popularly called ‘Babu’ decided to rechristen the locality as ‘Babu Nagar’ and erected a board to announce the change....
Edit
India: 70-year old crusader in Ruchika Girhotra molestation case now in Haryana poll fray
Gulf News 09 Oct 2019
With her family members and a small bunch of friends and well-wishers, a team of 25 people fan out daily across the area with a focus to visit villages and slums where people are still deprived of basic amenities ... Unemployment and poor plight of slum-dwellers are the issues core to her heart....
Edit
A journey through William Hogarth’s ‘moral geography’ of London and beyond
The Art Newspaper 08 Oct 2019
• Hogarth ... William Hogarth’s A Rake’s Progress, 4 ... A Rake’s Progress (1734-35) ... The central figure, assumed to be a spinster on her way to church, accompanied by a freezing attendant carrying her bible, encounters with disapproval a group of slumming young gentlemen carousing with market girls, in front of the notorious Tom King’s Coffee House.” ... ....
Edit
Patterns behind the PMC Bank meltdown
Live Mint 07 Oct 2019
The EOW has already arrested the former managing director of the bank Joy Thomas and promoters of real estate company HDIL Group Rakesh and Sarang Wadhawan ... But how did the regulator and auditor miss the fact that Wadhawan group’s exposure, around ₹500 crore till 2006-07, had grown to ₹6,500 crore?....
- 1
- 2
- Next page »
