The gathering served as a platform to evaluate opportunities, operational challenges and future reform strategies for the rural banking ecosystem.

Objective India had an estimated three to five million excess deaths from causes attributable to SARS-CoV-2 during 2020–2021, ...

MUMBAI (Reuters) - Rural consumption is poised to remain a bright spot in the Indian economy, supporting growth in the ongoing fiscal year, economists said after fourth-quarter GDP growth beat ...

As 5G rolls out across the country, this local layer becomes even more important. Faster mobile networks still depend on ...

In rural India, the number of households consuming tobacco increased from 9.9 crore in 2011-12 (59.3 percent of rural ...

NORTHAMPTON, MA / ACCESS Newswire / February 2, 2026 / Savitri's busy cosmetics and grocery store in Nasopur village, located in Rajasthan, India, hasn't always been as large and well-stocked as it is ...

EAC-PM paper finds sharp rise in rural and urban tobacco consumption between 2011-12 and 2023-24, with poorer households hit ...

Kanadukathan lies around a one and a half hour drive along rural highways from the nearest airport. It has many features travellers would expect from a remote South Indian village: cows grazing freely ...

BENGALURU, May 7 (Reuters) - Indian fast-moving consumer goods' sales rose in January-March, with rural growth outpacing that in urban areas for the first time in five quarters, market researcher ...

Two thirds of India’s 1.3 billion people live in rural areas. Voices from these communities, and issues important to them, however, often aren’t represented in mainstream news coverage. “The primary ...

CHENNAI, Feb 6 (Reuters) - Sales volume growth in the Indian consumer goods sector in the October-December quarter slowed sequentially amid soft sales at mom-and-pop stores, market researcher ...