An Indian schoolgirl who escaped destitution to become a poster-child at Wimbledon after starring in an Oscar-winning documentary is back in poverty and lives in a house with no door. Pinki Sonkar, ...

Jayati Ghosh discusses the UNDP report showing that poverty in India has halved in the last 10 years, and the newly unveiled healthcare plan for the bottom 40% of the population, nicknamed “Modicare.” ...

With a third of the world’s poorest people living in India, promises of eliminating poverty have always been a key electoral pledge since the country’s independence in 1947. With October 17 designated ...

The champagne world of Formula One has never raced in such contrasting surroundings like this weekend's Indian Grand Prix, with the areas surrounding the track reflecting the deep poverty of much of ...

ASPEN – Yvonne Neuman was familiar with the warning: that people who visit India become overwhelmed by the poverty, finding it impossible to get out of their minds. In fact, the reason that Neuman, an ...

AP Interview: India's environment minister says reducing poverty is climate justice Indian Environment Minister Prakash Javadekar speaks during an interview with an Associated Press correspondent in ...

For 20 years, Ratna Devi was paid no more than 50 rupees (about US$1) a day for her eight hours of work in a brick kiln. The 52-year-old is now bedridden in her shanty home on the outskirts of Indian ...

Indian women past childbearing age are dying at a higher rate than those in other countries because of poverty and limited access to resources such as food and health care, according to a study from ...

The United Nations Development Programme has released its 2019 Multidimensional Poverty Index which highlights the number of people around the world experiencing poverty at regional, national and ...

Attendees of a Native American anti-poverty summit pose for a photo Oct. 17, 2019, at the University of Notre Dame in Indiana, the site of their Oct. 15-17 gathering. (CNS photo/courtesy Father ...