Excessive exposure to light can cause a slew of health issues--from stress, metabolic disorders and inflammation to an ...

Medical certification of deaths is important for a post-pandemic healthcare response, for medical research and for improving ...

The government’s fertiliser subsidy crowds out private investment in the sector, is a disincentive for production efficiency ...

Central India has recorded five times its usual May rainfall and south India has recorded more than two-and-a-half times the ...

Radha Malani is a Research Analyst in the Fiscal Governance & Architecture Team at the Centre for Social & Economic Progress.

Canning, West Bengal: When 23-year-old Rituri, who uses only her first name, got a job offer from her village dance teacher, she believed it would be the way out of poverty for her family. A series of ...

New Delhi: This year marks the 25th year of the ban on smoking in public places, a landmark judgement of the Kerala High Court. Subsequently, the Cigarettes and Other Tobacco Products Act (COTPA), ...

Mumbai: Indian cities and towns produce about 72,368 million litres of sewage per day (MLD)--enough to fill 30,000 Olympic-size swimming pools--but has the operational capacity to treat only 37% of it ...

Kachchh: In the semi-arid landscape of Kachchh in Gujarat, farmers have traditionally practised Ram-Mol, or multi-cropping, to sustain through the harshest times. Kachchh is characterised by harsh ...