A UN official highlights India's reliance on rain-fed agriculture as a key challenge for its rural economy, impacting food ...

Rising rural inflation, slowing wage growth, and a deficient monsoon are dampening consumer demand in rural India, despite ...

Several market forces seem to be finally aligning in favor of improved connectivity in rural India. As digital adoption soars, telecom giants like Bharti Airtel, Reliance Jio and Vodafone Idea are ...

Growing consumption coupled with increasing smartphone adoption and the government's push to improve coverage in the country's hinterland means that telcos are finally waking up to the potential of ...

Celebrating World Post Day, India Post operates one hundred and sixty-four thousand nine hundred and ninety-nine post offices ...

Based Water Quality Monitoring System for Rural India is an autonomous, low-cost early-warning solution designed to detect ...

A report by the associated Chamber of Commerce states that rural consumer market is estimated to grow at the rate of 40%, while urban market sector growth would be only 25%. By 2020, 66.3% of the ...

The report titled ‘Gender Equity in Access to Education,’ said girls remain disadvantaged in India overall, with an adjusted gender parity index of 0.89.

Solar power is bringing light to remote villages across India. Rural residents, long disconnected from the grid, are increasingly using solar panels and battery banks to charge mobile phones, ...

New Delhi, July 7 : About 86 million more rural Indians have been counted as illiterate than the 2011 census data found.This is revealed by the Socio Economic and Caste Census (SECC), which counted ...