BENGALURU/HUBBALLI: Congress-governed Karnataka will weed out only "ineligible" BPL ration card holders and shift them to above poverty line (APL) cards based on income, CM Siddaramaiah said Sunday.

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 ...

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 ...

Protests erupted among poor families after their Below Poverty Line status was revoked without notice, threatening access to essential resources. Anger is brewing among the city’s poor after hundreds ...