It means, the number of poor people in India are somewhere between 2.8 crore to about 7 crore. The last official poverty estimate in 2011 counted 26 crore, or 21.9% of the population, as extremely ...

The paper highlights issues with the methodology adopted by the GoI, which estimates poverty at just 5% based on "positive ...

Communist Party of India (Marxist) leader Brinda Karat on Friday wrote an open letter to Supreme Court Judge B R Gavai over his observations on “freebies”, saying that the so-called freebies are poor ...

Prime Minister Narendra Modi highlighted in Parliament on Tuesday that his government has succeeded in lifting 25 crore ...

According to a Union Ministry of Road Transport and Highways report, potholes caused 4,446 accidents in 2022, leading to ...

Prime Minister Narendra Modi is addressing the Lok Sabha, on the fourth day of the Budget Session of the Parliament.

Health influencer and tech entrepreneur Bryan Johnson has encouraged Indians to organise themselves and tackle the poor air ...

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 ...