As the year comes to a close, we explain how deeper problems persist, including a delayed census weakening survey estimates ...

“ [M]ore than 90% birth or death events are getting registered”, according to a March 2025 circular by the Registrar General of India. This means, about 2.8 million births—more than the population of ...

From protests against air pollution in the national capital region to protests to save the trees in Nashik’s Tapovan, and ...

Chasing Methane: Emission Spikes is IndiaSpend’s latest effort to bridge this data gap. The dashboard, developed in collaboration with Respirer Living Sciences, aims to track and identify high ...

Evidence suggests that dowry deaths are misreported as accidental deaths, thereby underestimating the number of women who die following dowry ...

Ranchi: Dadichapar, nestled in the Netarhat hills in Jharkhand’s Latehar district, is a small village housing about 35 families belonging to the Birjia tribe, one of the 75 particularly vulnerable ...

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, ...

Later that month, United Nations chief Antonio Gueterres visited the village hailing it as a “new temple of the sun based on solar energy”. The announcement of Modhera’s newfound status brought a ...

Mumbai (Maharashtra): In May this year, a group of scientists and conservation experts from across the world lay bare an unfolding catastrophe: Almost 50% of the world's birds are undergoing ...

The textile industry is a vital sector of the Indian economy, contributing 2.3% of the gross domestic product (GDP), 13% of industrial production and 12% of exports. But this also means that the ...