If grinding poverty hurts your sensibilities, Kolkata is not the place to be in. Beyond the glitz of new street lights and fresh paint lies a world of abject poverty where people barely manage to ...

Kolkata, India (CNN) ... But poor people there can at least walk into a mall and grasp what it would take to pay that amount. They could even possibly save enough to buy it one day.

“Poor people who come to these organizations cannot be left behind in the lurch. There are people who take appointments two years before the date and suddenly you are told you cannot be attended to.

There are still a lot of people sleeping on the streets in Kolkata, but there have been great changes in recent years. After decades of concentrating on its base among the rural poor and ...

The horrific rape-murder of a trainee doctor at Kolkata's busy RG Kar Medical College and Hospital put Mamata Banerjee and her Trinamool Congress in a tight corner. One of her key constituents ...

Nobel laureate Esther Duflo and illustrator Cheyenne Olivier have collaborated on Poor Economics for Kids, an illustrated children’s version of the classic economics text professor Duflo co-authored ...

Even after “City of Joy” became a worldwide success, the French journalist who died yesterday at the age of 91 continued to support many projects for the poor by the missionaries he had met.