In the leadup to the annual United Nations climate conference, the U.N. Development Programme has released new data about how ...

The declaration follows a targeted four-year push led by local bodies under the state’s Extreme Poverty Eradication Programme ...

As the Kerala government threw a shindig on Nov 1 in its capital city, Thiruvananthapuram, to announce it had eradicated ...

Extreme poverty will rise for the first time this century as COVID-19 hammers the global economy, the World Bank said on ...

The coronavirus pandemic is pushing the number of people worldwide who need humanitarian assistance to survive to new highs, the United Nations said on Tuesday, dramatically increasing the ranks of ...

Marking a big achievement over the last decade, extreme poverty in India has dropped substantially from 27.1% in 2011-12 to 5.3% in 2022-23, according to the latest World Bank data. The remarkable ...

The Communist Party of India (Marxist)-led Left Democratic Alliance (LDF) government achieves a unique feat in India which, ...

According to the World Bank, “extreme poverty” means living on less than $2.15 (about R37) a day. Fully 67% of those ...

Kerala, a model in many sectors, once again shows the way by becoming India’s first State to be free from extreme poverty.

Kerala CM Pinarayi Vijayan highlights extreme poverty eradication as a key achievement of the LDF government ahead of ...

Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan made a historic declaration in the Legislative Assembly on the occasion of Kerala ...

By the end of March 2026 India will overtake Japan to become the world’s fourth-largest economy. But the country falls short ...