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

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 ...

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 ...

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.

East Sikkim/Soreng district: On a cold winter’s day in January 2016, Prime Minister Narendra Modi declared Sikkim as the first organic farming state in India. “Sikkim is an example in the sense that ...

Later that month, United Nations chief Antonio Gueterres visited the village hailing it as a “new temple of the sun based on solar energy”. The announcement of Modhera’s newfound status brought a ...

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 ...

The village has benefited from its proximity to the popular tourist city. Most families here rely on the hotel sector for their income. All the houses have a fresh coat of paint. Deeper in the village ...

Mumbai: Poverty and lack of opportunity in their hometowns drove 93 million Indians from disadvantaged castes and tribes in 2011 to migrate to other areas within their states in the hope of securing ...

Prime Minister Modi has appealed to farmers to reduce chemical fertiliser use three times since 2019. In this period, fertiliser consumption has risen ...

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.