Tripura’s springs are drying up due to deforestation and erratic rainfall. The govt’s household tap water scheme boasts vast coverage, but in hilly villages, many taps remain dry; some never ...

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 ...

The global climate conference held in Brazil concluded on a lukewarm note with a bid to set up a finance work programme and triple adaptation funding ...

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

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, ...

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 ...

New Delhi, Gurugram and Bengaluru: In the peak of Gurugram's summer in mid-June, 27-year-old Lalita Devi, a Bihari migrant in Sikandarpur Ghosi, has waited for nearly seven hours in a women’s queue ...

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 ...

"When we asked persons from the community to send us their bank account details, to forward to the government, around 80% told us that they have no bank accounts," said Tinesh Chopade, advocacy ...