Purab mat jaiyo more Rajaji ...' Passed down through generations, this folk song still echoes the reality of many villages in ...

Suniti Neogy leads a new program at CARE to promote maternal health in India’s poorest villages. But she is not working just with women. Instead, she is working to get men more involved in the health ...

When it won its independence in 1947, India suffered from appalling poverty. Campaigning in rural districts, Jawaharlal Nehru, the country’s first prime minister, had seen the “mark of this beast” on ...

LONGWA, India (AP) — To the people who live there, Longwa is a typical hilltop village. The most imposing structure is a corrugated tin roof belonging to the Angh, a hereditary tribal chief. But ...

Lichen grows on the stone walls of a structure in the abandoned village of Martoli, in the northern Indian Himalayan state of Uttarakhand, on Oct. 4, 2025. (Satish Sharma - AP) MARTOLI, India (AP) — ...

Vidisha (MP), Jan 17 (PTI) Union Minister Nitin Gadkari on Saturday said the country faced no shortage of funds, but needed political leaders who worked honestly for villages, the poor and farmers.

GANGTOK, India — Nearly four years ago, Indian Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman told the Parliament she had big plans for India's border villages. "Border villages with sparse population, limited ...

There is something quietly damning about the priorities a government reveals when it thinks the cost will be borne by people with no voice. In India today, millions of families wake up wondering ...

India said it would help create hundreds of "vibrant villages" along its border with China. Three years later, residents wonder where they are. India and China are in a race to populate their long ...