PM Awas Yojana changed lives, poor families in J&K's Kishtwar get permanent houses

IANS | December 9, 2025 11:37 PM

Kishtwar, Dec 9 (IANS) The Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana (PMAY), one of the flagship welfare schemes launched by the Narendra Modi-led Union government, has provided a roof over the heads of poor people living in Jammu and Kashmir's Kishtwar district and lakhs of people across the country by allotting them pucca (permanent) houses.

Investing in planetary health would deliver higher GDP, less poverty: UN

IANS | December 9, 2025 7:30 PM

Nairobi, Dec 9 (IANS) The most comprehensive assessment of the global environment ever undertaken has found that investing in a stable climate, healthy nature and land, and a pollution-free planet can deliver trillions in additional global GDP, avoid millions of deaths and lift hundreds of millions of people out of poverty and hunger.