India is one of the countries hardest hit by climate change-induced extreme weather. What should be our priorities in the upcoming budget?

While Indian policies talk about comprehensive abortion services even at primary health centres, many villages and small ...

Only 7% households, on average, have worked the full 100 days guaranteed under the programme, while wages remain low and allocations are not keeping ...

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 ...

Hazaribagh/Pakur/Ranchi: In Sonbarsa, a village in Sinduari Panchayat of Barkagaon block in Jharkhand, 36-year-old Suresh (name changed) works as a security guard on land he once owned. In 2016, this ...

Coal mining has uprooted many indigenous communities, forcing them to leave their ancestral lands, even as migrants move to the state for livelihood ...

Rahul Singh is a Jharkhand-based journalist and reports on environment and rural issues from the eastern states of India.

Many urban local bodies (ULBs) in India collect residential and commercial waste door-to-door, and transfer it directly to Material Recovery Facilities, a solution to the problem of ever-mounting ...

Piyush Mane holds a bachelor’s degree in economics from Fergusson College, Pune, and was a researcher at Centre for Labour ...