More than a quarter of India’s forest cover is fire-prone, and climate change is increasing the likelihood of fires in some ...

People move in and out of poverty due to life’s circumstances. Given India’s identification of the poor happens every 10-15 ...

Amarmuni Nagesia (26) was over seven months pregnant, and preparing for a four-hour journey for her antenatal check-up. Preparations had begun hours before. Her ...

Dengue, malaria, Japanese encephalitis and kala azar killed 285 people in 2024, as per data from the NCVBDC. A vaccine was discovered for dengue, and new techniques for vector management that aim to ...

Mumbai: Sixteen critical government datasets are delayed, and nine Union ministries have not released their annual reports--some of them for several years. The Census of India is now three years ...