The lockdown laid bare the fragility of India’s rural economy, one which forces agricultural communities to flee their homes and find insecure jobs in cities that abandoned them in their time of need.
While Ajit Gupta died on the way to hospital, his wife Sindhu died on Wednesday morning. The condition of their daughter is stated to be critical, police said.
Sri Lankans will slip into poverty this year, the World Bank has warned.
India has not released a new household consumption survey since the NSS from 2011. By extension, the country has not released any official estimates of poverty...
Joban Randhawa is associated with the NGO Sikh Aid and is involved in a plethora of social activities that are carried out by the organization. Being a part of...
Prime Minister Narendra Modi in his reply to a beneficiary of the 'Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana', said happiness of getting your own roof and house is priceless.
Hamid, the five-year-old protagonist of Premchand’s story, one of his best, may be a creature of the culture of poverty, but he is not the one suffering from...
Mooknayak, meaning hero or spokesperson of the mute, was the first newspaper launched by Dr Bhimrao Ambedkar. Today, its heir apparent, The Mooknayak, carries...
Every word the Dalit writer, Akhil Nayak, wrote dealt a blow to casteism. The tone and diction of his writings created a furore in Odia literature. The four...
Oprah Gail Winfrey is a talk show host, television producer, actress, author, and philanthropist from the United States. Her chat show, 'The Oprah Winfrey...
The report was published in the latest round of ICE360 Survey 2021, which was conducted by the Mumbai-based think-tank People’s Research on India’s...
Phaniswar Nath ‘Renu’, the journalist-writer, was an insider who told stories and reported on the backwardness of his home state of Bihar.
New report by Oxfam shows how billionaires across the world continued to prosper during Covid even as people scrambled for basics.
The world's ten richest men saw their fortunes grow at a rate of $15,000 per second during the first two years of the pandemic and if these ten men were to...
The cooperative movement, a socio-economic juggernaut, is playing a pivotal role in the growth of Tamil Nadu's rural economy, poverty eradication and...
'No government schemes have reached me, but whom to complain about? I think it was not in my destiny to enjoy government schemes. I am destined to do hard...
Three siblings lost parents in four days. Their hopes of education now crushed by a battle for survival in Bihar.
Bihar craves fresh policy ideas at the top, and better, more imaginative politics at every level.
The State has repeatedly failed the hard-working and resilient Biharis. The point of this Outlook issue is to look at what makes Bihar so poor. More...
How does one determine multidimensional poverty? What are its lacunae? What is the politics behind various poverty indices?
Over the past decade, Bihar has enjoyed two-digit growth, but Biharis remain the poorest. What makes Bihar so poor?
A Bihari labourer whose son passed away while he was trapped in Delhi during the 2020 Covid lockdown, vows never to migrate for work, come what may
Niti Aayog’s prognosis is timely but it has missed the larger picture of irreversible social revolution in Bihar
The Musahar community remains at the lowest rung of society and far away from grand schemes of successive governments and policy-makers in Bihar. Here's why
If Bihar is the poorest state, Kishanganj and adjoining Seemanchal districts are its poorest—a flood-ravaged spread of desolation. Snapshots of a crippling...