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million more Indians now living below the poverty line:
India now has 100 million more people living below the poverty line
than in 2004, according to official estimates released on Sunday.
The poverty rate has risen to 37.2 percent of the population from
27.5 percent in 2004, a ....
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Raipur:
Unable to get money to treat her children, a poor woman in a
Chhattisgarh village set herself and her two children on fire,
police said Friday.
The incident took place Thursday in Bhelwa Pataibahar village in
Jashpur district, some 400 km north of capital Raipur, when
27-year-old Kamla Bai killed her three-year-old daughter and
three-month-old son before ending her own life.
Interrogation of family members and neighbours revealed that Kamla's
husband Nehru Sai had no money to treat the two children, who had
been down with fever for a few weeks, B.S. Paikra, the police
official who investigated the incident, told IANS over the phone.
"Sai's wife Kamla Bai was very disturbed for failing to take her two
kids to the doctor. She tried her best to manage money from
neighbours and relatives but could not succeed and finally set
herself on fire with both the kids," Paikra said.
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