NEW DELHI (AP) — India released new data Friday showing that more than 70 percent of its people live in villages, with the majority extremely poor and dependent on manual labor. The data from India’s ...

Jay Sehgal discusses rural transformation, water conservation, education, and women-led entrepreneurship through impactful ...

Suniti Neogy leads a new program at CARE to promote maternal health in India’s poorest villages. But she is not working just with women. Instead, she is working to get men more involved in the health ...

LONGWA, India (AP) — To the people who live there, Longwa is a typical hilltop village. The most imposing structure is a corrugated tin roof belonging to the Angh, a hereditary tribal chief. But ...

Lichen grows on the stone walls of a structure in the abandoned village of Martoli, in the northern Indian Himalayan state of Uttarakhand, on Oct. 4, 2025. (Satish Sharma - AP) MARTOLI, India (AP) — ...

Dibrugarh: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday highlighted the emergence of a “neo-middle class” in India, announcing that 25 crore people have escaped poverty over the past 11 years due to his ...

For the last 6 years the 52 year old has walked for hours under brutal summer heat carrying water across villages in Mirzapur ...

GANGTOK, India — Nearly four years ago, Indian Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman told the Parliament she had big plans for India's border villages. "Border villages with sparse population, limited ...

Prime Minister Narendra Modi addressed the nation on Sunday through his 'Mann Ki Baat' radio program about the newly introduced 'Khelo Bharat Niti 2025' (National Sports Policy 2025), highlighting how ...