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

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

Pune: Indian prisons have a capacity of about 450,000 inmates, but at the end of 2024, the country’s prison population stood at 511,000, or 13% over capacity, according to data from the Prisons ...

Hyderabad: When the Covid-19 lockdowns stopped migrant workers in their tracks, with little money, work or means to go back home, governments of destination states struggled to figure out how many ...

Pune: Indian factories routinely flout occupational health and safety rules, even as inspections remain scant, and overworked, underpaid workers operate faulty machinery leading to accidents and ...

Mumbai: The average day for 31-year-old Ganga (not her real name) starts at 6 a.m. She cooks and packs food for her children aged six and eight, drops them off at school, and leaves for work. After ...

Pune: India registered 187,702 crimes against children in 2024, or 512 on average every day, the highest in the last 10 years, according to National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB) data. Cases doubled ...

Mount Abu, Rajasthan: Thirty-five-year-old Ritu Bhalla was twice diagnosed with blood cancer, at the ages of four and 11. She developed chronic hepatitis B as a long-term side-effect after cancer ...

Visakhapatnam: Every summer, millions of Indians in informal work lose income they cannot afford to lose. They work slower in extreme heat, take unpaid sick days, or stop work entirely when ...

Mumbai: In March 2025, the Ministry of Railways had stated that most of its divisions maintain “over 90% punctuality”. Behind the headline figure lies the everyday reality of passengers, with the ...