With a third of the world’s poorest people living in India, promises of eliminating poverty have always been a key electoral pledge since the country’s independence in 1947. With October 17 designated ...

Jayati Ghosh discusses the UNDP report showing that poverty in India has halved in the last 10 years, and the newly unveiled healthcare plan for the bottom 40% of the population, nicknamed “Modicare.” ...

A new report from the United Nations indicates India has made great strides in helping to get its citizens out of poverty: Between 2006 and 2016, the percentage of India's population in what's known ...

ASPEN – Yvonne Neuman was familiar with the warning: that people who visit India become overwhelmed by the poverty, finding it impossible to get out of their minds. In fact, the reason that Neuman, an ...

Nigeria has overtaken India as the country with the largest number of people living in extreme poverty, with an estimated 87 million Nigerians, or around half of the country’s population, thought to ...

AP Interview: India's environment minister says reducing poverty is climate justice Indian Environment Minister Prakash Javadekar speaks during an interview with an Associated Press correspondent in ...

The Indian techie claimed that he landed a job at Nvidia after graduating as a gold medalist from a Tier 3 college. | Trending ...

An Indian schoolgirl who escaped destitution to become a poster-child at Wimbledon after starring in an Oscar-winning documentary is back in poverty and lives in a house with no door. Pinki Sonkar, ...

Nigeria has overtaken India as the country with the largest number of people living in extreme poverty, with an estimated 87 million Nigerians, or around half of the country’s population, thought to ...