The 16th Finance Commission recommended that heatwaves be notified as national disasters. This could unlock central funding ...

Expert committees constituted to advise courts on medical termination of pregnancy are advocating for the rights of an unborn ...

India's 7.7 million gig workers have no shade, no drinking water, and no choice but to deliver through the afternoon heat ...

Shivam Bhardwaj is an independent journalist based in Bareilly.

Vishal previously worked with AMS, a management consulting company, as a research associate where he did data processing which catered databases to organisations such as WHO and UNICEF. His research ...

Climate change is making Purulia's fragile agriculture more precarious, pushing more people from the district to seek work in ...

"When we asked persons from the community to send us their bank account details, to forward to the government, around 80% told us that they have no bank accounts," said Tinesh Chopade, advocacy ...

Mumbai: In the Union Budget of 2025, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman announced that the government would provide internet connectivity to all secondary schools and public health centres in the ...

Mumbai: Despite steady growth in women's enrollment in higher education in India, a disparity persists between engineering and technology-related courses and other disciplines. Between 2013-14 and ...

Various factors have contributed to this crisis in the city. The Urban Water Balance Report for Bengaluru, released by WELL Labs, a city-based research organisation, highlights some of these concerns.

East Sikkim/Soreng district: On a cold winter’s day in January 2016, Prime Minister Narendra Modi declared Sikkim as the first organic farming state in India. “Sikkim is an example in the sense that ...

New Delhi: Jalaluddin Kazi*, 38, lives with bipolar disorder and often has seizures. A resident of North Dumdum near Kolkata, he drove a rented electric rickshaw to support his wife and two children, ...