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 ...

India needs to double down its construction & demolition waste recycling, to reduce the carbon emissions of the building ...

With no vaccine and outbreaks reported across nearly 400 epicentres, Assam’s pig farmers are bearing the brunt of African ...

Half of schools have ramps with handrails, one in three have functional toilets. As a result, enrolment drops at higher ...

While the release of key datasets marks progress, experts caution that deeper problems persist—methods that break comparability with past data, delayed census weakening survey estimates, and selective ...

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% ...

Mumbai: Indian women disproportionately bear the burden of unpaid domestic and care work, and this burden is especially acute for urban working women, with domestic responsibilities clashing with ...

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 ...

Bengaluru: The five south Indian states--Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh, Telangana, Kerala and Tamil Nadu--in that order, ranked the best among India’s 16 large and mid-sized states on justice delivery, ...

The first of its kind report titled Budgets for Justice, it analysed budgets of the 11 states with the highest gross domestic product (or GSDP) with a population of at least 10 million--Andhra Pradesh ...

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 ...