India produces about 72 billion litres of sewage per day but has the capacity to treat only 37% of it, and actually treats ...

A quarter century since the first public smoking bans came into place, smoking still leads to about 1 million deaths every ...

Ram-Mol involves cultivation of up to seven crops in order to leverage soil nutrition and mitigate climate losses, but the ...

Canning, West Bengal: When 23-year-old Rituri, who uses only her first name, got a job offer from her village dance teacher, she believed it would be the way out of poverty for her family. A series of ...

Mount Abu, Rajasthan: Seventeen people in Kachchh, who developed fever and respiratory distress towards the end of August 2024, died in quick succession between September 3 and 9, prompting ...

Bengaluru: The Census is now four years overdue, and the budget for the exercise has been slashed indicating further delays. This is even as millions of Indians are left without access to subsidised ...

New Delhi: Each evening, as daylight fades behind the rising mounds of the Bhalswa landfill, 26-year-old Paro leaves behind the mohalla’s evening chatter and hurries back to her one-room home in ...

Romita Saluja is an independent journalist, exploring the themes of development, gender, labour, trafficking, health, and human rights. Her writing includes longform investigations, narrative ...

Haryana: Three gunshots were fired, one startlingly close to where Satpal Singh sat in his wheat fields on a foggy December evening. In front of his eyes, lay a bleeding and possibly pregnant nilgai ...

Gurugram, New Delhi and Noida: Why do large private hospitals in India track global oil prices and regime changes around the world? As the preferred tertiary healthcare provider to many unwell people ...