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

Mumbai: Fewer Indian children are now short for their age. However, nearly two in five children continue to have lower-than-expected weight for height—a phenomenon called ‘wasting’—and about a third ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Mumbai: India has nearly tripled health insurance coverage over the past seven years, according to data from the National Sample Survey’s (NSS) 80th Round. Yet the average household spends more out of ...

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 ...