Although bus fare subsidies eliminate the economic barrier, major gaps in public transport infrastructure and services ...

Addressing the issues facing agriculture and food supply in the mountainous and hilly states could provide affordable food ...

Financial sector data indicate a parallel rise in online payment frauds: Frauds of Rs 1 lakh and above increased to 29,082 cases in 2023-24, involving Rs 1,457 crore, according to the Reserve Bank of ...

For a city famed for its many water bodies, often for the wrong reasons, with lakes spewing fire and noxious foam, there is a lack of reliable records about Bengaluru's vital blue infrastructure. The ...

Adjacent to her house is a shack turned into a small kirana (grocery store). Her neighbours have stopped buying from the family’s shop. Their fear is that if they touch her, they too will get what she ...

Delhi has 38 air quality monitors, but their placement leaves out 65% of the national capital without reliable air quality estimates ...

New Delhi: The National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB) recorded 236 victims (or 0.006% of all crime victims) who were transgender persons in 2020 and registered no cases of rape, buying and selling of ...

The first of its kind report titled Budgets for Justice, it analysed budgets of the 11 states with the highest gross domestic product (or GSDP) with a population of at least 10 million--Andhra Pradesh ...

Ranchi: Dadichapar, nestled in the Netarhat hills in Jharkhand’s Latehar district, is a small village housing about 35 families belonging to the Birjia tribe, one of the 75 particularly vulnerable ...

New Delhi: Jalaluddin Kazi*, 38, lives with bipolar disorder and often has seizures. A resident of North Dumdum near Kolkata, he drove a rented electric rickshaw to support his wife and two children, ...

New Delhi: Ramkumar, 38, has manoeuvred his rickshaw through the Sadar Bazar market in Delhi for almost 12 hours every day to earn a livelihood. But when night falls, he has nowhere to go. His meagre ...