Sikkim Governor Om Prakash Mathur highlights the state's achievements in growth and development during the 2025-26 Budget ...

At the time of Mr Dube’s visit in 1995 almost half of India’s population still lived below the international poverty line, according to the World Bank. Mr Dube lamented India’s lack of progress: the ...

Statistical debates around poverty estimates in India underline the importance of survey data. How does the absence of ...

The Supreme Court on Wednesday (March 19) orally commented that there are certain States which, despite boasting of having ...

Considering the poverty line set at $3.65 ... According to this SBI report, the poverty rate in India fell below 5 percent, nearly eradicating extreme poverty. It estimates that the current ...

Chief Minister A. Revanth Reddy will launch the “sanna biyyam” (fine rice) distribution scheme for below poverty line (BPL) ...

With poverty ratio falling drastically, many of the ‘priority households’ may not need subsidised food any longer ...

Haryana's poverty rate has surged six-fold to 51.83 lakh families (over 2 crore people) in the past five years, as per official data.

The court questioned whether the subsidised ration system, intended to provide food security to the poor, was being used by ...

In 2013, the year for which the most comprehensive data on global poverty is available, 767 million people, or 10.7 percent of the population, were estimated to be living below the international ...