Mumbai: Tribal populations in India experience worse health outcomes compared to the national average, an IndiaSpend analysis of government data has found. Overall, fewer tribal women receive ...

Climate is disrupting coffee production and quality the world over, but a model in AP’s Araku is working towards a solution ...

As fatality numbers dominate the debate, around 158,576 people a year survive crashes with severe trauma — and most face the aftermath alone ...

Carbon capture includes methods to trap planet-warming carbon dioxide and either repurpose it or store it safely beneath the ...

New Delhi: India has had guidelines for rolling out pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP)—a medicine that reduces the risk of HIV infection—since 2022. Four years later, government centres do not distribute ...

Mumbai: India’s increasing demographic of the elderly needs long-term care, daily support and palliative services. While national policies emphasise care at home, government data show that access to ...

Ayman Khan works in healthcare management in New Delhi, reporting on elder care and healthcare systems. As India’s elder care policies emphasise care at home, parliamentary data show that services ...

One of the results of this underspending on public education is that over one million government schools, where over half (52%) of India's nearly 248 million children study, have remained poorly ...

In September 2024, the tribe was granted habitat rights under the Scheduled Tribes and Other Traditional Forest Dwellers (Recognition of Forest Rights) Act 2006. The Mankidia tribe were officially ...

Is India prepared to cater to the needs of her growing elderly population? Not quite, experts say. In this first of a two-part series, we examine how fast India is ageing and whether the country is ...