There’s a dearth of large nationwide studies, but smaller surveys in various parts reveal systemic bias, discrimination and ...

The linking of rehabilitation of rescued bonded labourers with conviction of the accused in the central sector scheme is a ...

Deposits still form the highest share of financial savings for Indian families, but other instruments are seeing increases, our analysis shows ...

Rajkot: Bhurabhai Sangla*, native of Gujarat’s Dhanpur Tehsil in Dahod, migrates every year to western Gujarat with his family, where they work as ‘Bhagiya’ (wage sharecroppers) for six to nine months ...

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 ...

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, ...

Mumbai and New Delhi: From 1951, when the first woman joined the Indian Administrative Service (IAS), until 2020, women have made up only 13% of all IAS officers. Of 11,569 IAS officers who entered ...

New Delhi: Ramkumar, 38, has manoeuvred his rickshaw through the Sadar Bazar market in Delhi for almost 12 hours every day to earn a livelihood. But when night falls, he has nowhere to go. His meagre ...

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: The number of COVID-19 cases in India is now slowing down a bit, with around 350,000 cases and fewer than 4,200 deaths every day. We know by now that on both numbers, there is considerable ...

Mumbai: In the Union Budget of 2025, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman announced that the government would provide internet connectivity to all secondary schools and public health centres in the ...