The 16th Finance Commission recommended that heatwaves be notified as national disasters. This could unlock central funding ...

Climate change is making Purulia's fragile agriculture more precarious, pushing more people from the district to seek work in ...

India's 7.7 million gig workers have no shade, no drinking water, and no choice but to deliver through the afternoon heat ...

The move narrows legal recognition and removes self-identification, leaving community members, shelter homes and healthcare ...

Shivam Bhardwaj is an independent journalist based in Bareilly.

Vishal previously worked with AMS, a management consulting company, as a research associate where he did data processing which catered databases to organisations such as WHO and UNICEF. His research ...

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 ...

India ranks 108 of 193 countries on the Gender Inequality Index in 2022, an improvement of 14 positions from the previous year. The index, computed by the United Nations Development Programme, ranks ...

Mumbai and New Delhi: From 1951, when the first woman joined the Indian Administrative Service (IAS), until 2020, women have made up only 13% of all IAS officers. Of 11,569 IAS officers who entered ...

Mumbai and Nagpur: India’s tiger population has increased in the last five decades, but this has come at the cost of people losing their traditional homes, IndiaSpend found through various data ...

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 ...