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New satellite data and firsthand accounts reveal that PM2.5 levels in rural India far exceed safe limits. From biomass cooking with cow dung cakes to relentless stubble burning and unchecked ...

India will spend 4.57 trillion rupees ($52.81 billion) on subsidies for food, fertilisers and rural employment schemes in the next financial year, nearly unchanged from the current year's allocation, ...

India's unemployment rate stood at 7.8% in December 2024, marginally higher than 7.7% the previous month, data from the Centre for Monitoring Indian Economy showed. In absolute terms, the number of ...

India's rural areas - which account for just over a third of consumer goods sales - have proven a bright spot for an industry struggling with an inflation-led spending slowdown in large cities.