Leader of Opposition in the Lok Sabha Rahul Gandhi claimed on Monday that Dalits, backwards, tribals and poor general-caste ...

China, for instance, has witnessed sustained high economic growth in the past 40 years, and has pulled 800 million people out ...

She is part of a faceless, often-cited statistic: About 60% of India's nearly 1.3 billion people live on less than $3.10 a day, the World Bank's median poverty line. And 21%, or more than 250 ...

Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Mohan Yadav on Wednesday said that as part of Prime Minister Narendra Modi's vision for housing ...

Almost half of the 1.4 billion people in India live below the median poverty line of $3.65 a day, per the World Bank, and activists say the ostentatious displays of wealth are an affront to the ...

“[The] Gorakhpur tragedy is just another example of the general lack of attention being given in India to basic needs, especially those of poor or marginalized people,” says Jean ...

Shariful Fakir, a Bangladeshi national, broke into actor Saif Ali Khan’s home and stabbed him due to financial desperation.

Ansar Shaikh is the son of an autorickshaw driver from the Marathwada district of Maharashtra's Jalna village.

Despite such progress, challenges remain. India is still home to more than 170 million poor people, and economic growth and access to opportunities have spread unevenly among population groups and ...