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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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

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

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 ...

New Delhi: When 34-year-old Kruti realised she was pregnant early in January 2024, she was embarrassed. The Delhi resident has four children--her oldest is 12 years old and the youngest is six. She ...