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

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 ...

How Dubious Data, Fading Tech Shape India's Global Plastic Stance As nations negotiate a binding plastics treaty, India leans on outdated figures and unproven solutions to justify its stance ...

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

'Herd Immunity A Moving Target As People Start To Mingle More' Anup Malani, who has led several COVID-19 sero-surveys in India with IDFC Institute, talks to us about correctly interpreting the ...

COP26: Just Transition Away From Fossil Fuels Coal is the dirtiest fossil fuel and the single largest cause of global temperature rise to date.

Noida: There are at least five estimates of the number of poor people in India, which put the number of poor in India between 34 million--equivalent to the population of Kerala --to 373 million--more ...

Inside Mizoram, the areca nut--used across India to flavour the ubiquitous paan--has become the heart of a controversy about Myanmarese Chin refugees that flared up when angry local farmers allegedly ...

What about the efficacy of existing Covid-19 vaccines against the Omicron variant? Stéphane Bancel, chief executive officer of Moderna, has said that he feels existing vaccines will struggle with this ...

"Allocations for anganwadi services, supplementary nutrition, and POSHAN Abhiyaan are grossly inadequate and also not even keeping pace with inflation," said Dipa Sinha, an assistant professor at ...