With an estimated 12 million young people entering the workforce annually and despite impressive economic growth in recent ...

Kerala’s one-health approach to studying Nipah between outbreaks is paying off, enabling the health systems to identify and monitor infections effectively ...

32,000 Indians Say They Possess Exotic Animals In Post-COVID Amnesty The environment ministry offered amnesty to Indians holding undocumented exotic animals as a first step towards regulating their ...

At least 9 million Indians are living with dementia. The number is set to double by 2036, but care systems remain unprepared ...

Mumbai: Even though hilly states, such as Arunachal Pradesh, have large government debt to Gross State Domestic Product (GSDP ...

Micro, small and medium enterprises (MSMEs) provide large employment opportunities at lower capital cost than large industries, but this sector is plagued by low levels of registration. As per the ...

Caste impacts decision to migrate, benefits from migration Migration patterns and its impacts are based on a household’s caste, found a 2016 study from Beed in Maharashtra, published in the Social ...

Denied Visibility In Official Data, Transgender Indians Can't Access Benefits, Services The 2011 census estimated that 488,000 Indians identified as transgender. But nearly all major official data ...

Bengaluru: In July 2016, the Union government told Parliament that in its 15-year vision to achieve “total abolition of bonded labour”, it would identify, release and rehabilitate around 18.4 million ...

India Has Mental Health Pensions But They Rarely Reach The Affected For many persons with psychosocial disabilities across India, the disability pension was insufficient, inconsistent or nonexistent ...

‘24-Week Limit For Abortion Is Obsolete’ The Medical Termination of Pregnancy Act does not permit abortions beyond 24 weeks, but this limit is obsolete, as abortions can now safely be performed right ...

Why Local Initiatives May Be Key To Climate Change Adaptation Adaptation plans at national and state levels ignore communities most affected by climate change, but evidence from Jharkhand suggests the ...