For many migrant workers in India, the inability to cook affordably disrupts the economics of city life. As fuel becomes increasingly expensive due to market volatility and supply shocks, families are ...

Statistics can be fairly deceptive. At least, this is suggested by latest estimates released by World Bank, according to which India’s extreme poverty rate dropped to 5.3% in 2022-23 from 27.1% in ...

The faith India’s poor and excluded had in education is faltering. And it is the consequence of a policy drift, writes ...

India knows how to count the poor. From ration cards to multi-decade surveys such as the National Sample Survey, there are sophisticated systems to track deprivation – who’s getting by, who’s falling ...

The bulldozers and government officials arrived just before dawn, tearing down the row of shanties as its bewildered residents watched inconsolably nearby. “We were so frightened,” said 56-year-old ...

Louis CK talked about his experience after visiting India and seeing how people like in small blocks which are still very ...

Stolen coal worth $1.5 million recovered last year Lack of jobs and skills pushes locals to scavenge coal Pickers use the fuel to cook, sell it cheaply to middlemen JHARIA/CHENNAI, India, Feb 8 ...

India is on its way to becoming the third-largest economy in the world, yet unemployment among young people with graduate degrees is at an all-time high. India’s glass is half-full – and half-empty.

He asserted that although people in India face ‘poverty’, nobody is living ‘homeless or openly consuming drugs’ in the way he ...