India's food inflation slipped below double digits for the first time in five weeks at 9.01 percent for the week ended Nov 12, official data released on Thursday showed.

Food inflation had shot up to

Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister Kiran Kumar Reddy on Tuesday launched Re.1 a kg rice scheme, which will benefit 75 million people out of the state's 84 million population.

According to the state's civi

The world's population touched another milestone today as India and the Philippines welcomed 'symbolic' seventh-billionth babies.

A baby girl, born to 23-year-old Vinita and Ajay at a local communit

A week after it breached double digits, India's food inflation continued with its upward climb and was recorded at 11.43 percent for the week ended Oct 15, official data showed Thursday.

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Prices of pulses, vegetables and milk shot up during the week ending on October 15, taking India's food inflation to 11.43 per cent from 10.6 in the week before, official data showed on Thursday.

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The world's 7 billionth person will be born into a population more aware than ever of the challenges of sustaining life on a crowded planet but no closer to a consensus about what to do about it.

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Planning Commission Deputy Chairman Montek Singh Ahluwalia on Monday said the panel and the government had come to a consensus on the issue of defining people below the poverty line, which had trigger

The Planning Commission on Monday clarified that it was not going by a set poverty line for allocation of subsidised food and supported an approach of giving benefits based on various economic factors

Planning Commission Deputy Chairman Montek Singh Ahluwalia is today expected to clear his stance over the panel's affidavit in the Supreme Court defining poverty line cut-offs which have triggered str

Members of the Sonia Gandhi-led National Advisory Council, Aruna Roy and Harsh Mander, launched an assault against the Rs Rs 32/day Below Poverty Line norm suggested by Planning Commission deputy chai