New satellite data and firsthand accounts reveal that PM2.5 levels in rural India far exceed safe limits. From biomass cooking with cow dung cakes to relentless stubble burning and unchecked ...

Union Minister Nitin Gadkari highlights migration from rural areas to metro cities due to poverty and unemployment, ...

Microfinance loans are small loans granted to individuals or groups in rural areas who lack access to conventional banking ...

With 488 million internet users in rural regions—outpacing ... the surge in internet adoption, 41% of India’s population—approximately 630 million people—remains offline (non-active ...

Zoho's Sridhar Vembu urges entrepreneurs to hunt for talent at the source in Rural India which holds more youth demographic ...

India will spend 4.57 trillion rupees ($52.81 billion) on subsidies for food, fertilisers and rural employment schemes in the next financial year, nearly unchanged from the current year's allocation, ...

Indian consumer goods major ITC and biscuit maker Britannia Industries beat estimates for quarterly profit on Thursday, ...

The paper highlights issues with the methodology adopted by the GoI, which estimates poverty at just 5% based on "positive ...

presents an overview of the evolving internet landscape in India. By 2025, the country is projected to surpass 900 million internet users, driven largely by an increase in rural adoption.

The FM announced the government's plan to transform India Post into a major public logistics organisation, leveraging its ...