Tamil Nadu awaits election results on May 4th, with a record 443 women contesting Assembly seats. Despite historical highs and lows in fema...

India's literacy rate shows progress. The rate is 80.9% for those aged seven and above. Lakshadweep and Kerala lead in literacy. Bihar, Mad...

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...

The survey covered entire country with samples taken from 36,479 households in rural areas and 29,447 in urban areas from 4,577 villages an...

However despite these measures, the Economic Survey points out that the overall standard of education in India is below global Standards.

Tamil Nadu recorded a population of 72,147,030, growing by 97.4 lakh persons in the last decade, of which 80.1 per cent are literates.

Karnataka with a population of over 6.10 crore occupies ninth position in population size among all states and union territories

Bihar's population growth rate has dipped by 3.45% to 25.07% in the past one decade till 2011 compared to 28.62% in a decade earlier.

The overall growth in the literacy rate, however, is one of the lowest recorded so far, just higher than the 3.13% growth rate of 1971 Cens...

Slowing population growth and rise in literacy rates is likely to boost growth and employment prospects in India, the third-largest Asian e...

Himachal Pradesh has registered 12.81 per cent growth in population during the past decade while the female sex ratio improved from 968 to ...

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

The country posted its worst child sex ratio since independence, as ugly preference for male child zoomed alongside much-feted economic gro...

Census 2011 results are out amazingly fast and show acute gender distress.

With cyber crime incidents on the rise, President Pratibha Patil on Monday pitched for proliferation of computer education as part of ongoi...

The unemployment rate in Class-I cities declined by 2 percentage points for both males and females between 1999-2000 and 2004-2005, from 5%...