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 ...

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

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 ...

Adjacent to her house is a shack turned into a small kirana (grocery store). Her neighbours have stopped buying from the family’s shop. Their fear is that if they touch her, they too will get what she ...

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 ...

Bengaluru: In July 2016, the Union government told Parliament that in its 15-year vision to achieve “total abolition of bonded labour”, it would identify, release and rehabilitate around 18.4 million ...

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 ...

Micro, small and medium enterprises (MSMEs) provide large employment opportunities at lower capital cost than large industries, but this sector is plagued by low levels of registration. As per the ...

Mumbai: Poverty and lack of opportunity in their hometowns drove 93 million Indians from disadvantaged castes and tribes in 2011 to migrate to other areas within their states in the hope of securing ...