A One-Health approach involving multiple departments is the way forward to keep Indias progress in malaria elimination on track

Climate change is prolonging mosquito breeding and malaria transmission periods beyond the monsoons in UPs Sonbhadra. To keep pace with the vector's changing behaviour, more needs to be done through a One Health approach

There are only estimates of Indias gig workforce, and this lack of data is one of the reasons why gig workers are largely bereft of social security in a little-regulated gig sector, say experts

New report by Yale Program on Climate Change Communication shows Indians are very worried about climate change effects and want government to do more

Climate models cannot predict everything because of the inherent chaos in the system but they are a tool to understand what might happen.

103 gram sabhas in the Bopairiguda block of Koraput, Odisha, have come together to collect and sell kendu leaves, improving their livelihood opportunities and reversing the trend of distress migration

Involving rural local bodies in the elimination of tuberculosis can reap rich dividends, but a focus on targets at the cost of process is not helping, experts say

In highly unequal regions, redistribution of opportunities and resources are essential for human development advances, author Swati Narayan says in this interview

India has come a long way from the first election when 2.8 million women could not vote as they refused to disclose their names in the electoral rolls

Underqualified teachers staff schools in all states, and state governments do not provide the in-service training that they are mandated to provide

Lack of quality teachers and classroom inclusivity dampen efforts to improve learning outcomes

The National Clean Air Programme completed five years since inception but without progress on measuring air quality in rural areas, it will not be able to meet its objectives in the true sense, says professor and air quality researcher Abhijit Chatterjee

Migrant weavers have long working hours, meagre earnings, lack access to government schemes, and suffer from health problems triggered by the laborious nature of weaving

A father travels to three hospitals for treatment under the governments insurance scheme, but delays in treatment lead to the childs death, exposing challenges in healthcare access

Even as Indias economic growth has been high, real rural wages have stagnated for the last ten years, defying global economic trends and putting a question mark over the quality of growth.

Women who work as ASHAs are still considered volunteers and not paid salaries, even as the healthcare needs of the communities they serve increase

The Jal Jeevan Mission needs to move away from the legacy of previous schemes that focus on just building infrastructure for water supply and instead also focus on sustaining water resources.

Even as India is seeing the worst of heat stress this summer, plans to combat heat and phasing out coal do not feature in the manifestos of its two largest parties

The tea estates in Assams Barak Valley employ around 60,000 permanent and 50,000 casual labourers, many of whom find it hard to access healthcare facilities.

Tribal communities bear the brunt of conservation policies a decade after a key programme on tiger conservation was launched

The Public Distribution System needs to diversify the food basket it provides, and expand coverage to account for the population increase since 2011, says economist Reetika Khera

In recent years, Jammu and Kashmir has emerged as a new focus area of cutaneous leishmaniasis, with most cases reported from the Chenab Valley, Poonch and Rajouri districts in the Jammu division; and Kupwara and Baramulla districts in the Kashmir division.

Enabling rural households to access gainful self-employment and skilled wage employment opportunities

The aim is to improve the overall standard of school education

Torrent Power supplies power to Bhiwandi near Mumbai, and powerloom owners and public representatives allege that power bills have doubled or tripled since the franchise was brought in, which has dealt a blow to the Rs 10,000-crore powerloom industry here

It aims to improve nutritional outcomes in a phased manner through a holistic life-cycle approach

The invasive species Prosopis juliflora is leading to degeneration of grasslands, but the Vada Koli community depends on the tree, called gando baval, for their livelihoods

Research shows the value of complementing diagnostic surveillance of critical diseases with environmental surveillance, but the government has yet to pledge funds for such country-wide initiatives and for extra staff for now better-equipped public hospitals

Since 2019, the budget allocation for the Mahatma Gandhi Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme that has 129 million active workers has been consistently lower than or at most same as the previous years revised estimates

Aims to encourage and promote skill development by providing free short-duration skill training

The scheme aims to approach pollution abatement of the Ganga river in a holistic manner

PM-KUSUM's objective is de-dieselisation of the farm sector

PM-MVY is a maternity benefit programme that is implemented in all the districts of the country

While out-of-pocket expenditure on healthcare fell in the Modi governments first term, studies suggest this is from under-utilisation of healthcare rather than greater protection

PM-KISAN provides income support to all landholding farmer families in the country, with cultivable land up to 2 hectares

More girls are in high school, more women are accessing maternal healthcare, but few women are in the labourforce, and many of those who are working are engaged in low-quality poorly paid work

A spatial analysis of Delhis land surface temperature juxtaposed with its homeless clusters reveals that while homeless people are concentrated around the central parts of the city, many of the areas being secondary heat islands

Chor Meghna, an Indian hamlet on the Bangladesh border in West Bengal, lies outside the wire fence that separates the two countries. Residents need to prove their identity each time they cross the fence even to access basic services