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

As trees disappear and concrete expands, India's urban heat crisis is costing billions—but Tier 2 cities still have time to ...

Priyanka Thirumurthy is an award-winning multimedia journalist with a focus on the impact of climate change and excessive ...

We looked at studies that analysed data from nine cities spanning up to five decades. The images reveal three patterns: extreme sprawl that replaced natural landscapes with concrete, the paradox of ...

Mumbai: Rufino Possa, 52, a fisher from Uttan, a coastal village in north Mumbai, returned home on October 2, after 12 days at sea, four days more than he planned. The rough seas churned up by Cyclone ...

“ [M]ore than 90% birth or death events are getting registered”, according to a March 2025 circular by the Registrar General of India. This means, about 2.8 million births—more than the population of ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

Nearly 12 million Indian children were married before the age of 10 years--84% of them Hindu and 11% Muslim--reveals an IndiaSpend analysis of recently released census data. To put it in context, this ...

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% ...