Under a fifth of the Union budget is allocated to the social sector, and infra-heavy schemes such as affordable housing and rural roads are leaving money unspent ...

The Union health budget is up 9% since the current year. Yet many Indians continue to avoid public healthcare facilities ...

The last tiger census—which credited 60 research biologists, 41 technical assistants, 35 interns and volunteers in addition ...

While public discourse often remains fixed on the severe winter smog in Delhi-NCR, India’s Northeast is emerging as a ...

Men were nearly three times more likely to exercise than women, and participation was much higher in cities than in villages ...

Pune: India’s teaching workforce crossed 10 million in 2024-25, latest publicly available data show. Government schools continue to employ the largest share, even as private unaided schools are ...

Gandhinagar, Gujarat: Despite the 14th and 15th Finance Commissions’ recognition of the need for rural local bodies to become more efficient in revenue collection, panchayats’ own income fell 10.5% ...

Tirupati: An earlier onset of the summer, erratic rainfall, and pests that thrive due to the changing climate are impacting mango farmers’ yields in Rayalaseema in Andhra Pradesh, farmers say and data ...

Mumbai: As India’s mobile phone ownership increases, the country’s digital divide is showing up not in usage but in the digital skills that her citizens possess in order to leverage the devices, data ...

New Delhi: Each evening, as daylight fades behind the rising mounds of the Bhalswa landfill, 26-year-old Paro leaves behind the mohalla’s evening chatter and hurries back to her one-room home in ...

The non-operational mines either remain “abandoned” (owners have no intention to resume mining) or “discontinued”, which implies that mining may resume with upgraded technology. Scientific mine ...