Last month, the World Bank released yet another set of poverty estimates for India and bang, bang. The hammer dropped.

India, April 27 -- India has significantly ... bringing 171 million people above the poverty line, a World Bank report has said. Rural extreme poverty dropped from 18.4 percent to 2.8 percent ...

Living along the LoC - the volatile India-Pakistan border - means life in a fragile limbo between war and peace.