Recognising women as farmers, ensuring their rights to land and productive resources, and allowing them to claim their right ...

MUMBAI/CHENNAI, India, June 22 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Anajana Lalaji Bise's precious last photograph of her husband is a picture he sent to her on WhatsApp a few days before he died from COVID ...

In a striking announcement this April, the World Bank claimed that India has successfully lifted 171 million people out of extreme poverty over the decade spanning 2011-12 to 2022-23. According to its ...

India’s housing schemes for the poor in the urban and rural areas, launched under the Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana are setting ...

Intensifying its attacks on the working class and rural poor, India’s Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)-led government hurriedly pushed the Viksit Bharat–Guarantee for Rozgar and Ajeevika Mission (Gramin) ...

You started the first ever bank for rural women in India, almost 30 years ago. Then you set up a business school for rural women, then business chambers for rural women, livelihoods programmes, then ...

Across rural and tribal India, millions of women and girls still manage menstruation without safe products, accurate information or community support. And the barriers are rarely technological.

India is home to one of the world's most ambitious social programmes - a jobs guarantee that gives every rural household the legal right to paid work. Launched in 2005 by a Congress party government, ...

Pujarini Pradhan, who hails from Bengal’s East Midnapore, discusses caste, feminism, Stanley Kubrick, Munshi Premchand and Khaled Hosseini in her Instagram Reels.