India’s gram panchayats prepare development plans to access funds, but without meaningful community input and structural constraints, local needs are often sidelined ...

How Industries, Chemicals Ministry Influenced India’s Plastic Rules From placing the emphasis on plastic management rather than production and over-riding stringent state laws, the dilution of India’s ...

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

At the primary level, tribal children see higher enrolment rates than the all-India average, but many do not continue to secondary and higher secondary school ...

Urban Indian women spend more time working in paid employment but they spend as much time as their rural counterparts in unpaid care and domestic work in the household.

As climate change intensifies, millions of India’s home-based women workers face worsening heat, unsafe homes, and policy neglect—pushing their fragile livelihoods to the edge.

At present, India is developing an early warning system for landslides, but it is likely to be operational not before 2025 ...

Why BharatNet Remains An Unfinished Dream As of January 2025, only 1.99 lakh villages out of 6.5 lakh villages or 30.4% had broadband internet access ...

Nearly 50% More Women In Higher Education, But Fewer Choose Engineering, IT Societal conditioning since birth, the financial burden of an engineering education, and the lack of women-friendly policies ...

Mumbai: Road accidents in India fell 6% in a decade to 2022, but a higher percentage of these were fatal crashes--up from a quarter of all accidents in 2012 to a third in 2022. As a result, deaths ...