Mumbai: Road accidents in India fell 6% in a decade to 2022, but a higher percentage of these were fatal crashes--up from a quarter of all accidents in 2012 to a third in 2022. As a result, deaths ...

As a girl growing up in small-town Uttar Pradesh, Pooja wanted to “get ahead in life”. She wanted to be a working woman, earn a comfortable living, and get out of the confines of her village. But her ...

Hazaribagh/Pakur/Ranchi: In Sonbarsa, a village in Sinduari Panchayat of Barkagaon block in Jharkhand, 36-year-old Suresh (name changed) works as a security guard on land he once owned. In 2016, this ...

Rahul Singh is a Jharkhand-based journalist and reports on environment and rural issues from the eastern states of India.

Women and stakeholders tell stories of denial of services, active discouragement, or prohibitively steep abortion fees, which ...

Many urban local bodies (ULBs) in India collect residential and commercial waste door-to-door, and transfer it directly to Material Recovery Facilities, a solution to the problem of ever-mounting ...

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

Anamika Singh holds a master’s degree in development from Azim Premji University and is the Research Coordinator at Center for Labour Research and Action.