In punishing geography with connectivity nearly cut for five months a year, TB elimination took “remarkably simple things ...

More than a quarter of India’s men and women are now overweight or obese. Experts point to changing diets, nutrition and ...

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

The energy sector alone accounts for around 75% of India’s total emissions, followed by agriculture (14%), industrial processes and product use (8%), and waste (3%), as reported in India’s Fourth ...

Delhi: Ayush* is a legal aid counsel providing free services for criminal cases to those who cannot afford lawyers, at the Karkardooma District Court in Delhi. He makes about Rs 5,000 a month, on ...

Hundreds of children recently died in government hospitals in Rajasthan and Gujarat. Reports say that this was due to a lack of facilities in the hospitals, to treat newborns with severe cases. How is ...

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 ...

Further, the city produces 4,399 million litres per day (MLD) of sewage. But treatment capacity has not kept pace--in the city and across the country--according to our analysis of government data.

New Delhi: “In our out-patient department, we get so many patients who have had stillbirths in the past,” said Tamkin Khan, professor of obstetrics and gynaecology at Aligarh Muslim University. “Every ...

Visakhapatnam: Every summer, millions of Indians in informal work lose income they cannot afford to lose. They work slower in extreme heat, take unpaid sick days, or stop work entirely when ...

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 ...