Excessive exposure to light can cause a slew of health issues--from stress, metabolic disorders and inflammation to an ...

Medical certification of deaths is important for a post-pandemic healthcare response, for medical research and for improving ...

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

Central India has recorded five times its usual May rainfall and south India has recorded more than two-and-a-half times the ...

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

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

Mumbai: Nisha Singh made a difficult choice when she decided to quit her job at an auditing firm in Mumbai in June 2019. Her son was about a year old. Neither her family--husband and ...

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.