Even among women prisoners, around 74% were undertrial. India’s prisons capacity grew by 0.6% with a net addition of two ...

model’ villages have not been verified even once, while 89% have not completed second verification, exposing gaps in waste ...

Trigger warning: There are references to suicide and self-harm in this story. Bengaluru: When Asif Khan was arrested in Belgaum in October 2006 in connection to the Mumbai blasts in July of that year, ...

Mumbai: Indian schools have wide disparity in access to the internet and smart classrooms, with many lacking even a computer, an IndiaSpend analysis of government data, has found. This is even as ...

Noida: India’s maternal mortality ratio (MMR, or the number of maternal deaths for every 100,000 live births) fell from 130 to 88 between 2014-16 and 2021-23, according to the special bulletin on ...

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 ...

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, ...

Ernakulam and Bengaluru: Kartik Naik is in his 40s, and works as a mason’s helper in the Nettoor area, in Kerala’s Ernakulam, where mostly Odia male migrant labourers reside. As polling for his ...

New Delhi: Some 2.4 million Indians die of treatable conditions every year, the worst situation among 136 nations studied for a report published in The Lancet. Poor care quality leads to more deaths ...

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.

Bengaluru: By December 2022, India’s prisons were filled to 131% of capacity, up one percentage point from 2021, according to latest data released by the National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB). This is ...