As trees disappear and concrete expands, India's urban heat crisis is costing billions—but Tier 2 cities still have time to ...

Priyanka Thirumurthy is an award-winning multimedia journalist with a focus on the impact of climate change and excessive ...

“ [M]ore than 90% birth or death events are getting registered”, according to a March 2025 circular by the Registrar General of India. This means, about 2.8 million births—more than the population of ...

From protests against air pollution in the national capital region to protests to save the trees in Nashik’s Tapovan, and ...

Chasing Methane: Emission Spikes is IndiaSpend’s latest effort to bridge this data gap. The dashboard, developed in collaboration with Respirer Living Sciences, aims to track and identify high ...

Evidence suggests that dowry deaths are misreported as accidental deaths, thereby underestimating the number of women who die following dowry ...

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, ...

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.

Bengaluru: Shishir (name changed) was released on cash bail in the middle of October 2024, after spending three years as an undertrial prisoner in Thane jail in a case of murder. A mason and carpenter ...

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 ...