More than a quarter of India’s men and women are now overweight or obese. Experts point to changing diets, nutrition and ...

Textile parks under a two-decade-old scheme have not met their investment and employment generation targets, audits have ...

While some increase is expected with improved access to emergency care, experts say coercion and commercialisation are to ...

Mumbai: Fewer Indian children are now short for their age. However, nearly two in five children continue to have ...

New Delhi: How have successive Union governments managed the country’s finances? Over 20 years since the Fiscal Responsibility and Budget Management (FRBM) Act was passed, and ahead of the new ...

Nearly 3 in 4 Indians in prison are under trial. The average undertrial prisoner is young, often with low levels of education, from a marginalised community ...

Jaipur: With fertility rates falling across states, India does not need a law enforcing a two-child norm as sought by a petitioner recently in the Supreme Court (SC), experts told IndiaSpend. Such a ...

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 ...

Nayagarh: For 45-year-old Durjyadhana Jani, a resident of a tiny hamlet, Raisar, about 150 km west of Odisha's capital Bhubaneswar, the last three years have been a déjà vu of sorts. As a child, he ...

Bengaluru: Dowry-related crimes in India are routinely underreported and undercounted, an IndiaSpend analysis of government data and various studies shows. This reflects in official data as well.

Kachchh: The last quarter of each year is chock-full of festivals--which, traditionally, is when Indians shop for new clothes, spurred on by myriad sales and big discounts. The answer, say experts, ...

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.