Somewhere in a Gram Panchayat office in a district few outsiders could locate on a map, a clerk logs a birth certificate request onto a screen instead of a register. It takes minutes, not weeks. Multiply that moment by hundreds of crores of transactions. You begin to understand why July 1, 2026 †the day…
The 2026 southwest monsoon has proved the continuing vulnerability of India’s agriculture to climate variability. The delayed rainfall has postponed sowing operations, disrupted crop planning, and increased financial uncertainty for farming households across Marathwada and Bundelkhand. The impact of the monsoon extends beyond agriculture. It influences rural livelihoods, food security, inflation, and water availability across…
“solid waste” means and includes solid or semi-solid domestic waste, sanitary waste, commercial waste, institutional waste, catering and market waste and other non residential wastes, street sweepings, silt removed or collected from the surface drains, horticulture waste, agriculture and dairy waste, treated bio-medical waste excluding industrial waste, bio-medical waste and e-waste, battery waste, radio-active waste…
PM Surya Ghar has solarised 40 lakh homes. The government targets 1 crore by 2027. Each panel carries a 25-year lifespan. In roughly two decades, the clean energy that India is installing today will begin its journey toward becoming waste. The regulatory framework to manage that journey is still being written. In February 2024, the…
The 2026 monsoon has so far claimed over 70 lives and impacted more than 10 lakh residents in the state of Assam, while the toll continues to rise as relief efforts get underway in the cut-off villages of Upper Assam. This year was a little bit unexpected, not because the Brahmaputra overfilled its banks, but…
The plastic age has ushered in a dramatic change in the life of people, never witnessed before. Characterized by being light, strong, cheap and ubiquitous in packaging, pharmaceuticals, construction, agriculture and transportation, plastic age is a unique thing. It is, in fact, due to the nature of the material, that it has been deemed to…
Inside the invisible highways of labour that connect the heartland to the metros a data-backed anatomy of who moves, where they go, what they earn, and how the state is finally learning to see them On the morning of 24 March 2020, when Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced a nationwide lockdown with four hours’ notice,…
The BRICS Health Ministers’ Meeting marked a historic milestone by formally integrating traditional, complementary, and integrative medicine into the bloc’s healthcare agenda, emphasizing scientific validation, AI, research collaboration, and global health equity.
Eighty-one-year-old Felisa Cuc walks the path to her home in rural Sepur Zarco, Guatemala, trying to outrun the heat. Thousands of kilometres away, in a district in Rajasthan, another woman leaves before sunrise to fetch water, hoping to finish the walk before the day’s heat becomes unbearable. Neither woman set the thermostat on the planet….
India’s newest health survey data, and why a national gain in girls’ secondary-school completion still depends heavily on where a girl happens to be born. Nationally, the proportion of Indian women aged 15 – 49 with at least 10 years of schooling, according to the NFHS definition, is a proxy for secondary level – increased…
