According to UNDP, the MPI looks beyond income to understand how people experience poverty in multiple and simultaneous ways

The Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs has approved an increase in the honorarium for Anganwadi and Asha workers which will become effective next month.

Those who drew an honorarium of Rs 3,000 will from now on get Rs 4,500 and those who used to get Rs 2,200 will get Rs 3,500, he said. The honorarium of Anganwadi helpers will be hiked from Rs 1,500 to Rs 2,500, says the PM.

Prukalpa Sankar is using data power to bring about change in social world.

Dr. Rani Bang's community care model has been replicated in 17 emerging countries.

Praseeda Kunam's Samhita Community helps poor women live a dignified life and offers them opportunity to work.

This is the first time any brand is setting up exclusive stores in rural India at such a scale.

In an apparent jibe at former prime minister Rajiv Gandhi's famous comment about only 15 paise of every one rupee released by the Centre reaching the targetted beneficiary, Modi said, \"If one rupee is released from Delhi, the entire 100 paise (now) reach the house of the poor.\"

The last time the MGNREGA wages and state minimum wages were aligned was in 2009, but since then several states have announced upward revisions arbitrarily.

According to a study published in 2017 by the New England Journal of Medicine, India has 14.4 million obese children - to put this in perspective this is greater than the population of ten Indian states.

The first quarter results have been fairly robust. A revival seems round the corner.

India is building roads at a frenetic pace. The dream of building 40 kilometres a day is within the realm of possibility now.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday visited flood-ravaged Kerala and announced an immediate financial assistance of Rs 500 crore. He also announced an ex-gratia of Rs 2 lakh per person to the next of kin of the deceased and Rs 50,000 to those seriously injured.

As the nation mourns Vajpayee's loss, let's looks at the reasons why the country should be thankful to the poet prime minister.

Paresh Sukthankar, the man who was seen as a natural successor to Aditya Puri, MD & CEO, abruptly resigned on Friday from the largest private bank in the country.

Nitin Gadkari made the remarks, responding to a question on the ongoing agitation by the Marathas for reservation and similar demands by other communities in Maharashtra.

From the 3,000 applications received, 50 startups were shortlisted. All of them underwent training and mentorship programme for a week at IIM-A on business model, customer expectation, and commercialisation.

The government's attempt to sell Air India has failed but its broad public asset management strategy is showing results.

Ayushman Bharat can do to healthcare what GST is expected to do to India's indirect tax regime. But there are challenges, too.

Chairman and MD Sanjiv Mehta seeks to reinvent HUL as a future-ready corporation that can juggle heterogeneous markets successfully.