Textile parks under a two-decade-old scheme have not met their investment and employment generation targets, audits have ...

The world’s 12th most polluting landfill is in Mumbai. Despite multiple laws and rules, the city has failed to prevent its ...

While some increase is expected with improved access to emergency care, experts say coercion and commercialisation are to ...

Mumbai: Fewer Indian children are now short for their age. However, nearly two in five children continue to have ...

New Delhi: How have successive Union governments managed the country’s finances? Over 20 years since the Fiscal Responsibility and Budget Management (FRBM) Act was passed, and ahead of the new ...

Nearly 3 in 4 Indians in prison are under trial. The average undertrial prisoner is young, often with low levels of education, from a marginalised community ...

When you think of a state in Northeast India, does an image of a dense forest come to mind? The states of this pristine region have more than 75% of their geographical area under forest cover (barring ...

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 ...

The difference between the estimates can be traced to the different approaches of the surveys. The NFHS 5 focuses on the 'de jure' definition of disability, focusing on counting only people with ...

Hyderabad: When the Covid-19 lockdowns stopped migrant workers in their tracks, with little money, work or means to go back home, governments of destination states struggled to figure out how many ...

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 ...

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.