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 ...

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

Bengaluru: Nearly 3.8 million hectares, or 2.7% of the total area under farming in India, is farmed organically or through natural methods, which means using natural processes and inputs to improve ...

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 ...

New Delhi: The Union Budget presented by Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman today comes at a time when India faces the challenge of balancing economic growth with inclusive social development. While ...

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 ...

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 ...

Pune: Between 2018 and 2022, suicides in India linked to mental health rose 44%, according to National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB) data. Three in five such suicides were reported among the 18- to ...