There’s a dearth of large nationwide studies, but smaller surveys in various parts reveal systemic bias, discrimination and ...

Deposits still form the highest share of financial savings for Indian families, but other instruments are seeing increases, our analysis shows ...

The linking of rehabilitation of rescued bonded labourers with conviction of the accused in the central sector scheme is a ...

Indian men’s participation in domestic and caregiving work is concentrated in outdoor activities and playing with children, leaving the bulk of the associated mental and physical labour to the women ...

Birth and death registrations help establish legal proof of identity, age and citizenship and play a crucial role in ensuring that beneficiaries are able to access education, healthcare and social ...

New Delhi: Each evening, as daylight fades behind the rising mounds of the Bhalswa landfill, 26-year-old Paro leaves behind the mohalla’s evening chatter and hurries back to her one-room home in ...

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 ...

Punjab: Harwant Singh Aulakh, a farmer in his late sixties, grows basmati rice near Amritsar, just as his father and grandfather did before him. Amir Ghafourimanesh, a commodities importer in Tehran, ...

When you think of a state in Northeast India, does an image of a dense forest come to mind? The states of this pristine region have more than 75% of their geographical area under forest cover (barring ...

One such woman Dhruv worked with was her 30-year-old client, M. At first, M did not open up to her, Dhruv said. When M was pregnant with her second child, about three years ago, Dhruv helped take her ...

Mumbai: In the Union Budget of 2025, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman announced that the government would provide internet connectivity to all secondary schools and public health centres in the ...

As a girl growing up in small-town Uttar Pradesh, Pooja wanted to “get ahead in life”. She wanted to be a working woman, earn a comfortable living, and get out of the confines of her village. But her ...