NEW DELHI, May 17 (Reuters) - The number of people living in slums in India, Asia's fourth largest economy, has more than doubled in the past two decades, the government said on Thursday. Urban slum ...

New Delhi (CNN) — The bulldozers and government officials arrived just before dawn, tearing down the row of shanties as its bewildered residents watched inconsolably nearby. “We were so frightened,” ...

Mumbai, India — At 7 a.m., Rupali Rao Kilare starts getting ready for the day in the cramped home she shares with five family members. Though the sun has long risen, some alleys remain pitch dark as ...

Statistics can be fairly deceptive. At least, this is suggested by latest estimates released by World Bank, according to which India’s extreme poverty rate dropped to 5.3% in 2022-23 from 27.1% in ...

When Masoom Ali Shaikh arrived in Mumbai in 1974 as a young man from northern India, the patch of land where he set up shop was “just a creek with no proper road and garbage all around,” he said.

A heat wave has left water in short supply across India’s capital region. The poorest are left to crowd around tankers to get whatever they can. By Sameer Yasir Photographs and Video by Saumya ...

On Oct 17, the Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative (OPHI) and United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), released their annual Global Multidimensional Poverty Index (GMPI) report: ...

NEW DELHI, July 17 (Reuters) - Nearly 135 million people, around 10% of India's population, escaped poverty in the five years to March 2021, a government report found on Monday. Rural areas saw the ...

Environmental pollution and poverty are often discussed as separate crises, but they are deeply intertwined, forming a ...