As the West Asia war chokes LPG supplies and cylinder prices nearly double, Delhi's migrant women are back on wood and coal, ...

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 ...

Bengaluru: In July 2016, the Union government told Parliament that in its 15-year vision to achieve “total abolition of bonded labour”, it would identify, release and rehabilitate around 18.4 million ...

Mumbai: Sixteen critical government datasets are delayed, and nine Union ministries have not released their annual reports--some of them for several years. The Census of India is now three years ...

New Delhi: The Union Budget presented by Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman today comes at a time when India faces the challenge of balancing economic growth with inclusive social development. While ...

Nayagarh: For 45-year-old Durjyadhana Jani, a resident of a tiny hamlet, Raisar, about 150 km west of Odisha's capital Bhubaneswar, the last three years have been a déjà vu of sorts. As a child, he ...

Many urban local bodies (ULBs) in India collect residential and commercial waste door-to-door, and transfer it directly to Material Recovery Facilities, a solution to the problem of ever-mounting ...

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 ...

Pune: Between 2018 and 2022, suicides in India linked to mental health rose 44%, according to National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB) data. Three in five such suicides were reported among the 18- to ...

Mumbai and New Delhi: From 1951, when the first woman joined the Indian Administrative Service (IAS), until 2020, women have made up only 13% of all IAS officers. Of 11,569 IAS officers who entered ...