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 ...

Women and stakeholders tell stories of denial of services, active discouragement, or prohibitively steep abortion fees, which ...

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 ...

Mumbai: Sixteen critical government datasets are delayed, and nine Union ministries have not released their annual reports--some of them for several years. The Census of India is now three years ...

Surat: Panch Manzila (five-storied building), as locals refer to the building, has a quaint and regal ring to it. But neither its run-down facade nor the dilapidated interiors offer opulence to ...

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 ...