Suniti Neogy leads a new program at CARE to promote maternal health in India’s poorest villages. But she is not working just with women. Instead, she is working to get men more involved in the health ...

In a striking announcement this April, the World Bank claimed that India has successfully lifted 171 million people out of extreme poverty over the decade spanning 2011-12 to 2022-23. According to its ...

MARTOLI, India (AP) — Dozens of dilapidated stone buildings are what is left of the once-thriving border village of Martoli, in the northern Indian state of Uttarakhand. Nestled in Johar Valley and ...

LONGWA, India (AP) — To the people who live there, Longwa is a typical hilltop village. The most imposing structure is a corrugated tin roof belonging to the Angh, a hereditary tribal chief. But ...

Forsaking the village has become common in Uttarakhand’s hill districts. The youth don’t want to continue with the traditional occupation of agriculture: it’s not remunerative enough. Thus, abandoned ...

GANGTOK, India — Nearly four years ago, Indian Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman told the Parliament she had big plans for India's border villages. "Border villages with sparse population, limited ...

Congress MP Imran Pratapgarhi on Thursday said villages across the country were facing distress and accused the Union government of putting labourers in a “bad situation” by ending the rural ...

Nearly 800 million people in the world lack access to commercial electricity. It is easy to assume that connecting them to the grid will reduce poverty and improve lives. In fact, expanding energy ...

New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday spoke on the newly introduced 'Khelo Bharat Niti 2025', saying that schools and colleges will make sports a part of everyday life and sports startups ...

With the fast-paced development and industrialisation, we have somewhere forgotten our culture—a loss further accelerated by colonisation and the mind set of indigenous people viewing themselves as ...