Textile parks under a two-decade-old scheme have not met their investment and employment generation targets, audits have ...

While some increase is expected with improved access to emergency care, experts say coercion and commercialisation are to ...

Nearly 3 in 4 Indians in prison are under trial. The average undertrial prisoner is young, often with low levels of education ...

The world’s 12th most polluting landfill is in Mumbai. Despite multiple laws and rules, the city has failed to prevent its ...

Mumbai: Fewer Indian children are now short for their age. However, nearly two in five children continue to have ...

New Delhi: How have successive Union governments managed the country’s finances? Over 20 years since the Fiscal Responsibility and Budget Management (FRBM) Act was passed, and ahead of the new ...

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 ...

Co-founded in 2019 by Columbia Journalism Review and The Nation magazine in association with the Guardian and WNYC, Covering Climate Now supports, convenes, and trains journalists and newsrooms to ...

When you think of a state in Northeast India, does an image of a dense forest come to mind? The states of this pristine region have more than 75% of their geographical area under forest cover (barring ...

With the growth of cities, projects to build housing and inter-city infrastructure such as roads and railways have created a large number of jobs in the construction sector. Employment in this sector ...