But there is no denying that Kerala is India’s development champion. According to the Indian government’s “multidimensional ...

Kerala's claim of being extreme poverty-free is challenged by the living conditions of elderly women in Sreekrishnapuram.

Over the past four years, various government departments worked together to provide needy families with food, shelter, ...

Kerala’s extreme poverty-free claim should provoke a return to the political possibility of realising positive freedom—as a ...

By the end of March 2026 India will overtake Japan to become the world’s fourth-largest economy. But the country falls short ...

Kerala’s success today is not accidental. It is the outcome of decades of steady social investment and reform. As early as 1957, it became the first state to implement land reform laws, redistributing ...

India's extreme poverty rate declined sharply to 5.3% over a decade from 27.1% in 2011-12 even as the World Bank revised upwards its threshold poverty line to USD 3 per day. Given India's inflation ...

The Opposition Congress-led United Democratic Front rejected the declaration made by the Left Democratic Front government, ...

Kerala, a model in many sectors, once again shows the way by becoming India’s first State to be free from extreme poverty.

This special report from India Today covers Kerala's historic declaration as India's first extreme poverty-free state, ...

As the Kerala government threw a shindig on Nov 1 in its capital city, Thiruvananthapuram, to announce it had eradicated ...

Kerala claims historic extreme poverty eradication on Kerala Piravi Day, becoming India's first. Learn the multi-phase, community-led, and criticised initiative.