Mumbai: The Aurangabad bench of the Bombay High Court recently granted bail to a man accused of impregnating his 14-year-old ...

Poverty in India is a complex and multifaceted issue influenced by a combination of historical, economic, social, and political factors. Several renowned economists and leaders have provided ...

There is an urgent need to have an official estimate of the poverty line and bring in policy changes to impact the lives of ...

A total of 234 million persons are living below the poverty line in India, the highest in the world, according to a report released by the United Nations Development Programme and the Oxford ...

This book analyses poverty in India as being intimately connected with the advent of caste, untouchability, colonialism, indentured servitude and slavery, and their relation to modern practices. It ...

Earlier, the World Bank had said that extreme poverty in India had declined by 38 million in 2021 to 167.49 million after growing in the preceding two years. The ‘Poverty, Prosperity and Planet ...

At Second P Sundarayya Memorial Lecture, Patnaik spoke about reliable sources of nutritional data being ‘undermined’, British ...

Despite the scale of the challenge, significant improvements have been made in reducing poverty. In India, some 415 million people left multidimensional poverty in a 15-year period - a historic ...

With the release of new data from the Household Consumption Expenditure Survey (HCES), there is an opportunity to recalibrate ...