On what seemed like an ordinary Thursday, an Air India Dreamliner carrying 242 people crashed near Ahmedabad—just 30 seconds ...

Statistics can be fairly deceptive. At least, this is suggested by latest estimates released by World Bank, according to ...

India will soon need to focus on reducing relative poverty and inequality too since the spoils of high economic growth cannot ...

In 2016, when the UN adopted the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), the world promised to end all forms of child labour by 2025. The world did not keep its commitment.

The recent estimate by the World Bank says that the number of people in India living in extreme poverty declined from 344 ...

aDepartment of Paediatrics, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, India bAll India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, India cClinical Research Unit, All India Institute of Medical ...

Educator Ananthi Jebasingh received the Colson Center s Wilberforce Award, recognizing the impact she has made over the ...

NEW Labour big beasts are at war over proposals to scrap the two-child benefit cap — as statistics suggest more youngsters are being plunged into poverty. In a bombshell intervention ...

All night, shelling by Pakistani forces had rattled the city of Poonch in India-controlled Kashmir, each blast shaking the walls of his home. He bundled his wife, sister and 13-year-old son ...

The COVID-19 pandemic profoundly impacted children globally, particularly in India, leading to isolation, anxiety, and disrupted routines. School closures affected education, nutrition ...

Compounding the issue, the state recorded a worrying number of teenage pregnancies linked to cases under the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (Pocso) Act.

Born into crushing poverty in 1998, Sumit entered the dark world of crime at a very young age. His parents, both daily wage labourers, could scarcely manage two meals a day. With their time consumed ...