Coal mining has uprooted many indigenous communities, forcing them to leave their ancestral lands, even as migrants move to ...

Many urban local bodies (ULBs) in India collect residential and commercial waste door-to-door, and transfer it directly to Material Recovery Facilities, a solution to the problem of ever-mounting ...

Piyush Mane holds a bachelor’s degree in economics from Fergusson College, Pune, and was a researcher at Centre for Labour ...

Anamika Singh holds a master’s degree in development from Azim Premji University and is the Research Coordinator at Center for Labour Research and Action.

New Delhi: When 34-year-old Kruti realised she was pregnant early in January 2024, she was embarrassed. The Delhi resident has four children--her oldest is 12 years old and the youngest is six. She ...

Parbhani and Solapur: It was the first day of Diwali, and Rupali Hukire (name changed), a 42-year-old beautician, hurriedly cleaned big buckets and steel pots. She draws water from her neighbour's ...

Households in rural Maharashtra complain of having to pay water charges and also spend on buying water from private operators to meet their basic... The Jal Jeevan Mission needs to move away from the ...

Srinagar: "It was a moment of panic for the tourists," says Fayaz Ahmad, the head clerk of Shalimar Garden, recalling the incident when a 300-year-old Chinar tree toppled over in September 2024.

More than a quarter of India’s forest cover is fire-prone, and climate change is increasing the likelihood of fires in some regions ...