Topic: Madhya Pradesh
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Free bicycles help keep Indian girls in school
Free bicycles help keep Indian girls in school under a new state government program designed to help girls in Bihar, one of India's poorest states, where the female literacy rate of 53 percent is more than 20 points below that of its men.
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Delhi High Court bombing is latest in a string of major attacks
Today's Delhi High Court bombing killed at least 11 people. Many of the recent terror attacks in India remain unsolved due to what experts call a lack of human intelligence gathering.
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Trendy threads from waste
Pratibha Syntex could lead in the next textile wave: low-waste, recycled cotton.
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India, despite poor health care, sees drop in maternal mortality
Maternal mortality in India has fallen by 60 percent since 1980, despite widespread poverty and skeletal health care. The progress surprised some health-care workers.
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Gender selection: In India, abortion of girls on the rise
Gender selection via abortion appears to be on the rise in India – and more common among the wealthy. India's upper classes tend to have fewer children and more access to ultrasounds that reveal their babies’ sex. The gender imbalance means fewer women available to be wives.
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New India state Telangana may fuel other statehood movements
The central government in India announced Wednesday it would move to create a new state, Telangana, within the state Andhra Pradesh. Telangana is likely to serve as a precedent for other statehood movements.
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India's new antipoverty measure: national ID card
The card's introduction, one of the largest IT projects in the world, will eliminate a patchwork of local IDs and is meant to improve the delivery of social services to the poor.
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Anti-Christian attacks flare in India
Some see a government hand in the fanatical Hindu anger against a minority and its converts.
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Indian government's unstable win
In wake of confidence vote, it faces shaky political alliances and corruption claims.
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India's jobs plan goes nationwide
Last week, India's government expanded its ambitious program to provide 100 days of minimum-wage employment per year to millions of poor rural farmers.
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