From placing the emphasis on plastic management rather than production and over-riding stringent state laws, the dilution of ...

Suicides in Indian prisons are significantly higher than in the general population, yet most psychiatrist posts remain vacant ...

Survey limitations and omissions of the ultra‑rich and the most vulnerable are leading to a skewed picture of inequality ...

With an estimated 12 million young people entering the workforce annually and despite impressive economic growth in recent ...

Mumbai: IndiaSpend looked at 35 parliamentary questions on health, education, labour, environment, agriculture, finance, gender and law and justice, between 2015 and 2023, for which the government ...

Large Vacancies, Underutilised Budgets In India’s Forensic Science System Of 3,211 sanctioned posts at 26 labs, 40% were vacant. Of 1,294 vacant posts, more than two in three were scientific posts, ...

Tribal Workers Keep Cities Clean But Have No Social Security, Paid Below The Minimum Wage A survey in Gandhinagar, Surat and Ahmedabad found that sanitation workers were paid below the ...

How Stateless Rohingya Struggle To Find Livelihood & Assistance In India Rohingya refugees and asylum seekers are unable to find jobs and to support their families in India. Lack of domestic ...

Joymala Bagchi is an independent journalist based in Kolkata.

Delhi: In 2020-21, the year the Covid-19 pandemic and related lockdowns hit India, enrollment in government schools increased by 3% from 131 million in 2019-20 to 135 million in 2020-21, and ...

India Cannot Eliminate TB Without Addressing This Hurdle Lack of testing accounts for the highest number of patients lost in the TB care cascade, and stigma keeps many patients from accessing tests ...