Mumbai: Shoba Kshirsagar, 55, a waste-picker in Pune, became the sole breadwinner overnight after her 35-year-old son, who ...

As the West Asia war chokes LPG supplies and cylinder prices nearly double, Delhi's migrant women are back on wood and coal, ...

Expert committees constituted to advise courts on medical termination of pregnancy are advocating for the rights of an unborn ...

In eight charts, we analyse the year’s weather. Central India recorded over thrice the usual rainfall in March, April March 2023 saw the influence of seven Western Disturbances, causing heavy winds ...

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 ...

Bengaluru: In July 2016, the Union government told Parliament that in its 15-year vision to achieve “total abolition of bonded labour”, it would identify, release and rehabilitate around 18.4 million ...

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 ...

Nayagarh: For 45-year-old Durjyadhana Jani, a resident of a tiny hamlet, Raisar, about 150 km west of Odisha's capital Bhubaneswar, the last three years have been a déjà vu of sorts. As a child, he ...

New Delhi, Gurugram and Bengaluru: In the peak of Gurugram's summer in mid-June, 27-year-old Lalita Devi, a Bihari migrant in Sikandarpur Ghosi, has waited for nearly seven hours in a women’s queue ...

The village has benefited from its proximity to the popular tourist city. Most families here rely on the hotel sector for their income. All the houses have a fresh coat of paint. Deeper in the village ...

Bengaluru: Shishir (name changed) was released on cash bail in the middle of October 2024, after spending three years as an undertrial prisoner in Thane jail in a case of murder. A mason and carpenter ...

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 ...