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

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

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 ...

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

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

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, ...

Rajsamand, Rajasthan: The year that Chanchal Kumari was born was the year of the drought in Rajasthan--2002. For two years, the state had a severe water shortage--no water for drinking or even sowing ...

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 ...

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 ...

Srinagar: Despite, and partly because of, the increasing tourist footfall at the iconic Dal Lake, Biba Banoo, a fisherwoman in her mid-sixties, is perturbed. Her son Bilal Ahmed has been unable to ...

Ernakulam and Bengaluru: Kartik Naik is in his 40s, and works as a mason’s helper in the Nettoor area, in Kerala’s Ernakulam, where mostly Odia male migrant labourers reside. As polling for his ...