Kerala Exit Poll 2026: Exit polls suggest the Congress-led UDF could unseat Kerala's ruling LDF after a decade in opposition, with projecti...

Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan campaigns in his Dharmadam constituency. He highlights welfare schemes and development projects. Loc...

Census data shows that individuals migrating for work rose from 30 million in 2001 to 41 million in 2011. This was the very period when Ind...

The theory behind the programme was that the poor are trapped in extreme poverty, due to lack of assets and inability to use financial inte...

A huge controversy had erupted over the poverty line during the UPA regime, forcing the then Congress-led dispensation to clarify that govt...

He said as the economy grows faster, people get more jobs, wealth is generated, people are pulled out of poverty lines.

Nikki Haley, the Indian-American Governor of South Carolina, would do a better job in reducing poverty than US President Barack Obama.

Under the proposal, the beneficiaries would be identified by the panchayats and they would be provided direct central assistance through va...

The beneficiaries would be identified by the panchayats and would be provided direct central assistance through various government schemes.

The Hindu outfit has come under criticism for its programme to "recovert" people who it claims had changed their religion from Hinduism.

Indian govt needs to impose more tax on rich to raise resources for funding its anti- poverty and other social sector programmes, said Jeff...

Miscommunication has led to people not realising that new poverty estimates count more Indians as poor.

There is no mechanism in the hands of the government to ascertain income or expenditure to identify the ‘poor’ on the ground.

The spiraling growth of Medicare and the high cost of renewing President George W Bush's tax cuts are squeezing popular education, health, ...

Nobel Peace Prize laureate Muhammad Yunus told the head of the World Bank on Sunday that its failure to modernise anti-poverty lending prog...

Developing a comprehensive poverty reduction strategy will involve more investment by the state Government in poverty monitoring and evalua...

The Economic Survey has said anti-poverty strategy needs to be reformulated such that it is fiscally sustainable and finely targeted.