Households in rural Maharashtra complain of having to pay water charges and also spend on buying water from private operators ...

As bureaucrats and legislators receive hefty pensions, India’s working class face dwindling support in a broken system ...

Many Chinar trees in Srinagar are now showing signs of disease, with large hollowed-out cavities in their trunks caused by pest and pathogen attacks. These areas mark the early stages of decline in ...

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

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

Suchak Patel is an independent writer.

India is the world’s second-largest sugarcane producer, and has been consistently generating more sugar than it consumes. But estimates show that to meet the 20% target that the government has set for ...

Noida: This year, India recorded more cases of chikungunya and Japanese encephalitis compared to 2023, while dengue and malaria cases are showing up well beyond the usual months. A strain of ...

Ganjam, Odisha: Kamallochan Sahoo (42) was just 18 when he first boarded a train to Surat along with a few others from his village, Kalamba, in Odisha’s Ganjam district to work. It was not his last ...

Much of the reporting on concerns around HMPV virus happens only because the combination of the words ‘China’ and ‘virus’ attracts inordinate attention, says Gautam Menon professor at ...