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

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 ...

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

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 ...

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

Gandhinagar, Gujarat: Despite the 14th and 15th Finance Commissions’ recognition of the need for rural local bodies to become more efficient in revenue collection, panchayats’ own income fell 10.5% ...

Mumbai: As India’s mobile phone ownership increases, the country’s digital divide is showing up not in usage but in the digital skills that her citizens possess in order to leverage the devices, data ...

Lack of funding, a delayed rollout, and unclear policies have turned the promise of inclusive healthcare for the transgender community into another ...

The non-operational mines either remain “abandoned” (owners have no intention to resume mining) or “discontinued”, which implies that mining may resume with upgraded technology. Scientific mine ...

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 ...

When you think of a state in Northeast India, does an image of a dense forest come to mind? The states of this pristine region have more than 75% of their geographical area under forest cover (barring ...