Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah on Wednesday defended the Social and Educational Survey—widely referred to as the “caste census”—underway in the state, asserting that the data from the survey ...

CM says Social and Educational Survey will help address poverty and illiteracy; hits out at BJP for resisting caste data collection ...

Poverty and poor health-seeking habits remain some of the biggest obstacles in the fight against cervical cancer and the human papillomavirus. In Mombasa’s informal settlements, many women delay ...

Poverty breeds illiteracy. Illiteracy produces social dysfunction, illicit brews, early marriages, and school dropouts.

Mississippi recognized its reading crisis and took action to solve it — proving to big-spending blue states like New York and ...

This month, the Department of Education released its latest edition of the National Assessment of Educational Progress, the ...

The World Literacy Summit hosted 80 education officials to confront the rapid decline of reading proficiency across the ...

However, learning poverty remains a significant challenge. Incremental progress is occurring, but more needs to happen. India ...

In Balochistan, women are murdered for love, disappeared for protest, and buried under layers of tribal authority – writes ...

Summarising China’s experience in conquering poverty, Xi said the country has blazed a poverty reduction trail and formed an ...

MP Sudama Prasad has urged the President to posthumously award the Bharat Ratna to Bhikhari Thakur, widely known as the ‘Shakespeare of Bhojpuri’. Tha ...