A survey in Gandhinagar, Surat and Ahmedabad found that sanitation workers were paid below the government-mandated minimum ...

Piyush Mane holds a bachelor’s degree in economics from Fergusson College, Pune, and was a researcher at Centre for Labour ...

Households in rural Maharashtra complain of having to pay water charges and also spend on buying water from private operators to meet their basic needs ...

As bureaucrats and legislators receive hefty pensions, India’s working class face dwindling support in a broken system ...

New Delhi: When 34-year-old Kruti realised she was pregnant early in January 2024, she was embarrassed. The Delhi resident has four children--her oldest is 12 years old and the youngest is six. She ...

Many Chinar trees in Srinagar are now showing signs of disease, with large hollowed-out cavities in their trunks caused by pest and pathogen attacks. These areas mark the early stages of decline in ...

Suchak Patel is an independent writer.

As bureaucrats and legislators receive hefty pensions, India’s working class face dwindling support in a broken system ...

India is the world’s second-largest sugarcane producer, and has been consistently generating more sugar than it consumes. But estimates show that to meet the 20% target that the government has set for ...