India and IFAD launched an eight-year rural development strategy focused on livelihoods, climate resilience, women ...

India has recorded a sharp decline in poverty over the last decade, the World Bank stated this in its latest report “Poverty & Equity Brief,” showing that extreme poverty fell to 2.3% in 2022–23, down ...

Addressing the gathering, Secretary, Department of Economic Affairs, Ministry of Finance, Smt. Anuradha Thakur emphasized the ...

Officials say the new framework is designed to move beyond traditional wage employment guarantees toward a more integrated, ...

IFAD and India launch an 8-year strategy to boost rural incomes, climate resilience, and share development models globally.

Mumbai: Union minister for parliamentary affairs and minority affairs Kiren Rijiju said at a function in Mumbai on Saturday ...

It has been an unusually hot summer even for Kolkata, the capital of the eastern Indian state of West Bengal. Usually, the month of June is when the oppressive heat of the summer makes way for the ...

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