Millions no longer count as poor, but still live one crisis away from hunger, debt, or despair. Poverty on paper isn't ...

India is preparing to host the G20’s annual summit for the first time. The talks begin in Delhi on Saturday. For months Indian authorities have ordered bulldozers to destroy the homes of people ...

New Delhi — Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced Tuesday that India's nationwide lockdown would be extended until May 3 to fight the spread of the coronavirus. The lockdown that began on March ...

The poverty line is now set at INR 1,632 for rural areas and INR 1,944 for urban areas, significantly higher than the INR 816 (rural) and INR 1,000 (urban) benchmarks established in 2011-12.

As Indian parliamentary elections approach, politicians’ promises resting on uplifting economic status of the poor will get more assertive and aggressive.

Sugar crops in some of India’s major growing regions are in desperate need of rain as drier conditions threaten the production outlook, which may place more pressure on containing rising food costs.

A study of Indians who migrated from rural to urban areas finds that the longer they live in a city, the worse they score on measures of heart health and diabetes risk, compared to those who ...

Despite India’s claim of historic poverty decline, new data raises doubts. Are vulnerable lives masked by changing metrics? Dig into the real numbers.

NAKRASAR, India—India has its own version of America's Depression-era Works Progress Administration: a gigantic program designed to create jobs through building infrastructure in a developing ...

Money has started flowing into one of India's poorest regions, but as Delnaaz Irani finds, any real development is still a long way off.

Indian oilseeds futures are likely to extend the previous session's gains on Tuesday on concerns poor rainfall in the country's biggest soybean producing state may trim acreage and output this ...