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 ...

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

The government’s fertiliser subsidy crowds out private investment in the sector, is a disincentive for production efficiency ...

Chirag Patel works on inclusive WASH and water security initiatives in India and advocates about climate resilience, city planning and the power of slow, sustainable travel.

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

A quarter century since the first public smoking bans came into place, smoking still leads to about 1 million deaths every ...

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 ...

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: Road accidents in India fell 6% in a decade to 2022, but a higher percentage of these were fatal crashes--up from a quarter of all accidents in 2012 to a third in 2022. As a result, deaths ...

Mumbai: Sixteen critical government datasets are delayed, and nine Union ministries have not released their annual reports--some of them for several years. The Census of India is now three years ...