India is one of the countries hardest hit by climate change-induced extreme weather. What should be our priorities in the upcoming budget?

The rapid expansion of India’s National Highway network, which grew by 60% from 91,287 km in 2014 to 146,145 km by November ...

While Indian policies talk about comprehensive abortion services even at primary health centres, many villages and small ...

Coal mining has uprooted many indigenous communities, forcing them to leave their ancestral lands, even as migrants move to ...

Piyush Mane holds a bachelor’s degree in economics from Fergusson College, Pune, and was a researcher at Centre for Labour ...

Only 7% households, on average, have worked the full 100 days guaranteed under the programme, while wages remain low and allocations are not keeping ...

Many urban local bodies (ULBs) in India collect residential and commercial waste door-to-door, and transfer it directly to Material Recovery Facilities, a solution to the problem of ever-mounting ...

Households in rural Maharashtra complain of having to pay water charges and also spend on buying water from private operators to meet their basic needs ...

Rahul Singh is a Jharkhand-based journalist and reports on environment and rural issues from the eastern states of India.

Noida: This year, India recorded more cases of chikungunya and Japanese encephalitis compared to 2023, while dengue and malaria cases are showing up well beyond the usual months. A strain of ...