Guj Cong gets over 16 lakh forms on free plots scheme

Last Updated: Monday, October 8, 2012, 23:27

Gujarat Congress` poll promise of providing 100 sq yard of plots to rural poor and middle class women received a huge response.

Brazil's middle class swells as 35 mn climb out of poverty

Last Updated: Friday, September 21, 2012, 14:15

Roughly 35 million Brazilians have climbed out of poverty over the last decade and 53 percent of the country's nearly 194 million people now belong to the middle class, according to an official study released Thursday.

Govt punishing middle class: SAD on diesel price hike

Last Updated: Friday, September 14, 2012, 00:05

Shiromani Akali Dal criticised the steep hike in the price of diesel and LPG by terming it as deliberate punishment being meted out to the citizens.

Gujarat Congress promises free plots to rural middle class

Last Updated: Wednesday, August 22, 2012, 21:13

Gujarat Congress on Wednesday promised free 100 yards plots, to the rural middle class of the state.

A very middle-class Indian upbringing for Aaradhya: Abhishek Bachchan

Last Updated: Wednesday, August 22, 2012, 11:21

Abhishek Bachchan can’t stop raving about his little bundle of joy Aaradhya.

BKU hails Chidambaram statement on middle class

Last Updated: Friday, July 13, 2012, 21:05

Union Home Minister P Chidambaram had earned the opposition`s wrath by giving a statement on middle class.

PC mocks at middle class, says it cribs too much about price rise

Last Updated: Tuesday, July 10, 2012, 21:59

Home Minister P Chidambaram on Tuesday sparked a row by mocking at the middle class.

'Rise of middle classes in India, China key to growth in Asia'

Last Updated: Wednesday, April 4, 2012, 15:20

The rise of middle class in Asian countries, including India and China, will help restructure the region's economic growth, government and business leaders gathered at an economic forum have said.

Over half of Brazilians now middle class

Last Updated: Friday, March 23, 2012, 12:30

The number of Brazilians categorized as middle class has risen rapidly in recent years, climbing from 34 percent of the population in 2004 to 54 percent in 2011, according to a study released Thursday by consumer finance firm Cetelem BGN and the Ipsos research institute.

Tourism Australia plans to target rich middle-class Indians

Last Updated: Thursday, October 13, 2011, 11:02

Australia`s tourism industry is set to announce a new plan to target and attract the rich middle class population of India.

Nepal`s growing middle class takes to the malls

Last Updated: Sunday, February 20, 2011, 22:09

When the first indoor shopping complex opened in Nepal`s ancient capital Kathmandu in the 1980s, it was such a novelty that visitors had to be shown how to use the escalator.

Neetu Singh full of praise for middle-class housewives

Last Updated: Saturday, September 11, 2010, 09:57

Neetu Singh, who stars opposite her husband Rishi Kapoor almost after 30 years in Habib Faisal`s directorial debut "Do Dooni Chaar", says she feels that today`s middle- class housewives are `Mother India`.