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

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 ...

Pune: India registered 187,702 crimes against children in 2024, or 512 on average every day, the highest in the last 10 years, according to National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB) data. Cases doubled ...

As climate change intensifies, millions of India’s home-based women workers face worsening heat, unsafe homes, and policy neglect—pushing their ...

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 ...

New Delhi: India’s social sector budget as a share of the gross domestic product is now second lowest in over a decade, and lower even than 2014-15, when the Narendra Modi government presented its ...

Pune: Only one in 10 Indians exercised on a given day in 2024, according to the Time Use Survey by the National Statistics Office (NSO). Exercise participation has increased since 2019, when 5.7% ...

Chennai: D. Tamilselvi recently retired as a community health nurse from the Medavakkam primary health centre after 40 years of service. “In the beginning, I remember always having tree shade to park ...

Noida: IndiaSpend is launching Food Price Watch, a new realtime dashboard, which aggregates food prices from various groups across the country to estimate how much an individual or family would need ...

Bengaluru: Dowry-related crimes in India are routinely underreported and undercounted, an IndiaSpend analysis of government data and various studies shows. This reflects in official data as well.

Noida: India’s consumption gap appears to shrink, but income inequality is rising fast, as per analysis of India’s consumption data by the World Bank. India’s consumption‑based Gini coefficient--a ...

Bengaluru: Occupational mobility has widened the gap between Brahmins and Dalits rather than narrowing it, a new analysis of socioeconomic data from Uttar Pradesh reveals. It finds that there is only ...