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...

A report by State Bank of India reveals that a 1% rise in literacy in India increases female voter turnout by 25%. Employment schemes, sani...

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...

Survey also shows only 3.3 per cent such women faced violence during pregnancy. This indicator seems to reflect a better awareness of their...

The 38% jump in women with bank accounts is complemented by the fact that 84% married women in the age of 15-49 years are participating in ...

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...

President Pranab Mukherjee today emphasised on stepping up efforts toward complete eradication of illiteracy from the country.

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

Literacy among women in Bihar has leapfrogged to over 53 per cent from 33 per cent 12 years ago due to sustained efforts of the government.

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...

The state recorded its slowest decadal increase in population of 4.8% between 2001 and 2011, or a compounded average annual growth rate of ...

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...

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%...