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Woman living under poverty line loses plea for BISP help

LAHORE – The Lahore High Court on Wednesday dismissed the petition of a widow seeking financial assistance under the Benazir Income Support Program. A deputy attorney general on behalf of federal government informed the court that t [...]

Posted On : Jan, 19 2012 | Comments : 0

Poverty alleviation: Hunger, thy face is woman

She argued that women may be more impoverished due to societal biases and incomprehensive governmental definitions of what constitutes “productive work”. Societal biases include giving last portions to sons since they need the [...]

Posted On : Jan, 13 2012 | Comments : 0

Poverty-stricken woman kills kids, self

A poverty-stricken woman first poisoned her three children and then committed suicide by consuming pesticide at their home in Chhattisgarh's Bilaspur district. Two of the kids died while the third is battling for life, police said on [...]

Posted On : Dec, 06 2010 | Comments : 0

Poverty-hit woman, kid end lives by jumping before train

Penury forced a 32-year old migrant woman, who had a large family of seven children, to commit suicide here last night along with 12-year old daughter as they jumped before the speeding Howrah Duplicate train, the Government Railway Police [...]