The state government, under fire for cancelling lakhs of ineligible Below Poverty Line (BPL) ration cards, is now moving to install an advanced integrated software system to curb irregularities and ...

Tension looms large for Meenamma, a 60-year-old resident of Janatha Colony in West Bengaluru diagnosed with breast cancer, after her neighbours received notices about the cancellation of their BPL ...

Think a Below Poverty Line (BPL) or indigency certificate, meant to ensure medical aid to the poor, actually works? Not quite. Fifty-eight-year-old Sridhar Nar, an unemployed father, has been running ...

Anger is brewing among the city’s poor after hundreds of families discovered that their Below Poverty Line (BPL) status had been cancelled without notice. The protesters demanded that the government ...