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

The Opposition Congress-led United Democratic Front rejected the declaration made by the Left Democratic Front government, ...

India's extreme poverty rate declined sharply to 5.3% over a decade from 27.1% in 2011-12 even as the World Bank revised upwards its threshold poverty line to USD 3 per day. Given India's inflation ...

Kerala will be declared India’s first ‘extreme poverty-free’ state on November 1. Pinarayi Vijayan to make the announcement on Kerala’s formation day.

India's poorest state Bihar goes to the polls on Thursday, and for many of its 130 million people, one issue overshadows all ...

Nigeria has overtaken India as the country with the largest number of people living in extreme poverty, with an estimated 87 million Nigerians, or around half of the country's population, thought to ...

Kerala's declaration as India's first poverty-free state is a historic milestone built on decades of decentralised governance, women empowerment through Kudumbashree and strong social infrastructure.

Kerala CM Pinarayi Vijayan declares state first in India to eliminate extreme poverty after targeting 64,006 families. The UDF Opposition boycotts the Kerala Piravi session, calling the claim pure ...

A high-level delegation from the government of Ethiopia has concluded a week-long learning and exposure visit to India, which ...

Addressing the World Summit for Social Development in Doha on Tuesday (Today), he called for the eradication of poverty in ...

Kerala chief minister Pinarayi Vijayan formally announced in the state assembly on Saturday and that the state has eradicated ...