NEW DELHI — First things first, it’s a tad premature right now to say India has overtaken Japan and become the 4th largest economy. True, IMF’s projections for India for April are slightly higher than ...

For many migrant workers in India, the inability to cook affordably disrupts the economics of city life. As fuel becomes increasingly expensive due to market volatility and supply shocks, families are ...

As Indian parliamentary elections approach, politicians’ promises resting on uplifting economic status of the poor will get more assertive and aggressive. As these promises become louder, headlines ...

Statistics can be fairly deceptive. At least, this is suggested by latest estimates released by World Bank, according to which India’s extreme poverty rate dropped to 5.3% in 2022-23 from 27.1% in ...

When it won its independence in 1947, India suffered from appalling poverty. Campaigning in rural districts, Jawaharlal Nehru, the country’s first prime minister, had seen the “mark of this beast” on ...

'The extreme poverty rate in South Asia is driven by India,' the World Bank report stated. These people live on less than Rs 180 a day. (Representational image: Unsplash) India has 129 million ...

India is on its way to becoming the third-largest economy in the world, yet unemployment among young people with graduate degrees is at an all-time high. India’s glass is half-full – and half-empty.

The bulldozers and government officials arrived just before dawn, tearing down the row of shanties as its bewildered residents watched inconsolably nearby. “We were so frightened,” said 56-year-old ...

Stolen coal worth $1.5 million recovered last year Lack of jobs and skills pushes locals to scavenge coal Pickers use the fuel to cook, sell it cheaply to middlemen JHARIA/CHENNAI, India, Feb 8 ...

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