Ayman Khan works in healthcare management in New Delhi, reporting on elder care and healthcare systems. As India’s elder care policies emphasise care at home, parliamentary data show that services ...

As India’s elder care policies emphasise care at home, parliamentary data show that services often fall short, shifting the burden to hospitals, families and unpaid caregivers.

One of the results of this underspending on public education is that over one million government schools, where over half (52%) of India's nearly 248 million children study, have remained poorly ...

In September 2024, the tribe was granted habitat rights under the Scheduled Tribes and Other Traditional Forest Dwellers (Recognition of Forest Rights) Act 2006. The Mankidia tribe were officially ...

As India’s elderly population grows with increasing life expectancy—currently 72 —so are opportunities to invest in the ...

In a reply to a question by parliamentarian Ashok Chavan in the Rajya Sabha, the government said that the annual requirement of blood in the country is 14.6 million units, and a total of 14,601,147 ...

New Delhi: In November 2025, when 16-year-old Manisha Kumari went with her mother to get a blood transfusion in Sadar Hospital in Jharkhand’s Giridih district, she was told that her blood group—O ...

Pune: One in four water samples collected from India’s household tap connections did not meet microbiological standards, according to a 2024 assessment of the Jal Jeevan Mission. While 76% of samples ...

Mount Abu, Rajasthan: Sixty-two-year-old Kusum Devi (name changed to protect identity) developed sudden and severe lower back pain on the night of her daughter’s wedding. She was rushed to a nearby ...

Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh and New Delhi: Santosh Kumar, 44, rides his bicycle slowly, his swollen leg dragging awkwardly behind him with each turn of the pedal. A mason from Har Singh Dev ka Purwa in ...

Mount Abu, Rajasthan: India is known as the ‘Pharmacy of the World’ for being the largest global supplier of generic medicines and affordable drugs. Yet, policy gaps compel India’s poor to struggle to ...