Medicines account for 70% of out-of-pocket health spending, often pushing millions of Indians into, or deeper into, poverty ...

As heatwaves intensify, informal women workers are losing income, productivity, and protection—while policy response struggles to catch up ...

Under a fifth of the Union budget is allocated to the social sector, and infra-heavy schemes such as affordable housing and rural roads are leaving money unspent ...

The Union health budget is up 9% since the current year. Yet many Indians continue to avoid public healthcare facilities ...

The last tiger census—which credited 60 research biologists, 41 technical assistants, 35 interns and volunteers in addition ...

While public discourse often remains fixed on the severe winter smog in Delhi-NCR, India’s Northeast is emerging as a ...

According to the University of Chicago’s 2025 Air Quality Life Index (AQLI) data, an average resident of the national capital region would gain over eight years of life if the city’s air quality met ...

Gandhinagar, Gujarat: Despite the 14th and 15th Finance Commissions’ recognition of the need for rural local bodies to become more efficient in revenue collection, panchayats’ own income fell 10.5% ...

Noida: India’s consumption gap appears to shrink, but income inequality is rising fast, as per analysis of India’s consumption data by the World Bank. India’s consumption‑based Gini coefficient--a ...

“The first few weeks after a rescue are critical for released bonded labourers so that they do not slip into rebondage,” said Tina Kuriakose Jacob, senior research fellow, International Institute of ...

The first of its kind report titled Budgets for Justice, it analysed budgets of the 11 states with the highest gross domestic product (or GSDP) with a population of at least 10 million--Andhra Pradesh ...