Fewer women use or own mobile devices, and even fewer possess the skills required to leverage the devices and participate in ...

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 ...

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 ...

Mumbai and Nagpur: India’s tiger population has increased in the last five decades, but this has come at the cost of people losing their traditional homes, IndiaSpend found through various data ...

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 ...

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 ...

Bengaluru: What activists, environmentalists and members of various political parties could not do in over two decades, nature’s fury accomplished in a little over 10 minutes. The theory that a ...

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 ...