Over 60% women in 12 states and union territories have never used the internet.

According to the study, after Kerala, Delhi has the best literacy rate at 88.7 per cent, followed by Uttarkhand's 87.6 per cent, Himachal P...

Typically, states with relatively low literacy rates also tend to have the highest gender skews, but that is not always true. Andhra Prades...

In case of public hospitals, the average expenditure in rural areas was Rs 4,290 while that in urban areas was Rs 4,837. However, a reverse...

Six NGOs registered with the Depositor Education and Awareness Fund have been selected to execute the pilot project in collaboration with b...

Poll-bound Bihar is historically one of the poorest regions of the country with all the features of a grossly under-developed economy.

Media company DB Corp said that it has launched a new edition of its flagship Dainik Bhaskar in Bhagalpur in Bihar.

Rajan visited Kasturba Gandhi Balika school here, around 60 km from state capital Patna, to have a first hand view of the noble educational...

It has become a highly addictive habit among some people to fall back on random, incorrect numbers to hit out at Modi.

These states will now start getting funds in the ratio of 75:25 as against the existing ratio of 65:35.

Gogoi triggered a controversy when he told a news channel recently that low literacy levels among Muslims contributed to their growing popu...

The plan will be executed under a five-month literacy campaign 'Sakshar Bharat Yojana' to be launched from November 11 next, according to a...

The rate of growth of literacy has slowed down from the last decade to this decade, and this has serious implications on how we need to go ...

With the provisional figures for the 2011 Census sounding an alarm over the falling child sex ratio, it’s a good time to look at who really...

Even as there was a sense of achievement at the improvement in the literacy rate, questions are being raised about what constitutes literac...

To uplift Bihar from bottom of development index, the Planning Commission today raised annual outlay for the state by 20 per cent to Rs 24,...

Nearly 42,000 rural women in the country with zero literacy levels have learnt to read and write in Hindi in just four weeks' time, thanks ...