Central India has recorded five times its usual May rainfall and south India has recorded more than two-and-a-half times the typical amount. Multiple factors led to these unseasonal rains, experts say ...

But these subsidies have not incentivised the industry to make production more efficient, or encouraged greater private investment in the sector. Cheap chemical fertilisers also harm soil health and ...

Radha Malani is a Research Analyst in the Fiscal Governance & Architecture Team at the Centre for Social & Economic Progress.

Mumbai: Indian cities and towns produce about 72,368 million litres of sewage per day (MLD)--enough to fill 30,000 Olympic-size swimming pools--but has the operational capacity to treat only 37% of it ...

India produces about 72 billion litres of sewage per day but has the capacity to treat only 37% of it, and actually treats only 28% ...