Kolkata, India (CNN ... About 60% of India's nearly 1.3 billion people live on less than $3.10 a day, the World Bank's median poverty line. And 21%, or more than 250 million people, survive ...

Annie Gowen, Niko Kommenda, Anant Gupta and Atul Loke traversed Kolkata to document the unequal ... her country — her very life as a poor Indian woman — reflect one of the world’s greatest ...

KOLKATA: The Bengal Police have some definite messages for everyone this Women's Day. Reclaiming the Night should not just be confined to outdoors but equally indoors, they have stated.

The National Library of India celebrates International Women’s Day with an exhibition highlighting literary and professional achievements of Indian women. This event, coinciding with a ...

The Buddha Institute has nurtured 17 women entrepreneurs and aims to nurture another 500 by 2030. The National Rural Livelihood Mission (NRLM) has already brought over 100 million rural poor women ...

A few years ago I was on an assignment in India. I had a day off, so I went to the Mullick Ghat flower market in Kolkata ... but the women I asked told me they were reluctant to have their ...

The most loyal booster of Kolkata would acknowledge that the city has had some genuinely trying times in the 60 years since India became independent ... among the rural poor and disdaining ...

Cancer comes at a cost. For women coming from lower economic strata in India, a diagnosis can reveal faultlines within the family as poverty forces members to recalibrate their priorities ...