The average household in rural India spends just 43 rupees (77 US cents) per head a day, with their urban equivalents consuming almost double, according to new government data.

The latest study from

Poverty will be virtually eliminated by 2030 globally, with a rising middle class of some two billion people pushing for more rights and demanding more resources, the chief of the National Intelligenc

The Bihar government's high pride in achieving a growth rate of 16.71 per cent during 2011-2012, the highest in the past five years, have been dented by reports of rural distress like poor families se

Driven by penury, a woman in Bihar's Nawada district attempted to sell her four daughters but was prevented by the district authorities on Wednesday.

Sub-divisional officer Diwan Zaffer Hasan Khan s

Driven by poverty, a 35-year-old woman allegedly sold one of her infant twin sons to a Nepalese couple for Rs 62 in this district, police said on Sunday.

Shannu Khatun, who begs to make a living, sa

Ram Singh, 17, earns more than Rs 55 from the 100 cups of tea he makes every day outside Delhi railway station, but each evening, after packing up, he goes to the bank and deposits nearly half of it.

The mother of twin baby girls arrested for selling them, has told the Tirunelveli district police that she wanted the money to give her older daughter a better chance in life as she was too poor to c

Moved by their children plight, the Delhi High Court has ordered release of five mothers serving one year detention at a welfare home for begging here after coming from their native place Bhilwara in

In a move, which is seen as a beginning of delinking below poverty line (BPL) list with flagship schemes, Centre is mulling to allow 20 per cent of Indira Awas Yojna (IAY) benefits to go to non-BPL ca

Among the major states, Odisha recorded the steepest fall in poverty from 2004-05 to 2009-10, Minister of State for Planning Ashwani Kumar said on Thursday.

In Odisha, poverty declined by 20.1 per c