India faces a high burn burden with an estimated 2.1 million people suffering from injuries, 25,000 deaths, and 1.4 million ...

India has made significant progress in poverty reduction, lifting 171 million people out of extreme poverty, with rates ...

Recently, the World Bank came out with an update on the methodology and level of its poverty line. What does this update say ...

Bizarre as it may seem, especially for a country with so many people at low levels of income and consumption, as well as a ...

Odisha Chief Minister Mohan Charan Majhi on Tuesday asked major private banks to extend more credit to poor people of the state under various welfare schemes. Majhi said this while meeting ...

There is clear evidence that poverty has declined in India. But overstating the extent of this fall by ignoring the limits of the new data goes against sound research.

A helicopter carrying Hindu pilgrims has crashed in the northern Indian state of Uttarakhand, killing seven people on board.

India has made remarkable progress in expanding its social security coverage, with more than 25 crore people moving out of ...

Three people were killed and six injured in a stampede during a festival in eastern India on Sunday (June 29), officials said ...

Five passengers and two crew members on board an Air India flight from London to Mumbai, India, fell ill on Monday, June 23, ...

Opposition leaders in Bihar criticize Election Commission for Special Intensive Revision of electoral rolls, calling it ...