Men were nearly three times more likely to exercise than women, and participation was much higher in cities than in villages ...

India needs to double down its construction & demolition waste recycling, to reduce the carbon emissions of the building ...

With no vaccine and outbreaks reported across nearly 400 epicentres, Assam’s pig farmers are bearing the brunt of African ...

Half of schools have ramps with handrails, one in three have functional toilets. As a result, enrolment drops at higher ...

Mumbai: Rufino Possa, 52, a fisher from Uttan, a coastal village in north Mumbai, returned home on October 2, after 12 days at sea, four days more than he planned. The rough seas churned up by Cyclone ...

We looked at studies that analysed data from nine cities spanning up to five decades. The images reveal three patterns: extreme sprawl that replaced natural landscapes with concrete, the paradox of ...

Nayagarh: For 45-year-old Durjyadhana Jani, a resident of a tiny hamlet, Raisar, about 150 km west of Odisha's capital Bhubaneswar, the last three years have been a déjà vu of sorts. As a child, he ...

Rajsamand, Rajasthan: The year that Chanchal Kumari was born was the year of the drought in Rajasthan--2002. For two years, the state had a severe water shortage--no water for drinking or even sowing ...

Various factors have contributed to this crisis in the city. The Urban Water Balance Report for Bengaluru, released by WELL Labs, a city-based research organisation, highlights some of these concerns.

Mumbai: Two incidents of mob violence reported from Dima Hasao in Assam and Mangaluru in Karnataka on July 6, 2018, take to 61 the number of mob attacks sparked by rumours or suspicion of ...

Mumbai: Over the past decade, Indian prisons have increasingly had more undertrial prisoners, with their share increasing from 66% of prisoners in 2012 to 76% in 2022, as revealed in the latest Prison ...

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 ...