In 1998, Teliya, a remote village in Jharkhand’s Gumla district, had almost nothing going for it: severe food insecurity, high rates of malnutrition, and barely any cash circulating in the local economy. Twenty-five years later, the same village has year-round crop planning, renovated roads, working irrigation, and a sanitation system with toilets for its 77…
Development organisations usually pick a lane: some do agriculture, others do women’s health, and the two rarely share a budget line. SumArth, a not-for-profit based in Gaya, Bihar, decided that separation didn’t make sense on the ground, where the same woman who needs a reliable harvest also needs a dignified way to manage her period…
India’s Northeast rarely features in national development conversations the way the Hindi heartland does. Seven Sisters Development Assistance, known as SeSTA, was built specifically to close that gap. Since 2011, the organisation has grown from a single-district pilot in Assam into a network working with 160,000 families across 2,540 villages in 24 districts spanning Assam,…
At the 29th UN Climate Conference in Baku, only 8 of the 78 world leaders present were women, i.e half as many as the year before. The gap is not unique to global summits. In India’s own climate and clean energy sector, women remain strikingly underrepresented in leadership roles, even though women and girls make…
Singapore supplied nearly a third of every foreign investment dollar that entered India last financial year — more than any other single country. That fact explains why, on 20 August, a five-member ministerial delegation led by Commerce and Industry Minister Piyush Goyal joined a 70-strong Indian business contingent in Singapore for the fourth India-Singapore Ministerial…
Five Indian states are reshaping gig worker protections through welfare boards, social security measures and platform levies. But whether these laws deliver meaningful benefits will depend on registration, funding, worker participation and effective implementation.
I Jyoti Agarwal n 2022, on an August day, in a small hall in Mumbai, Ratan Tata, aged eighty-four years old found himself among other elderly people and recent graduates. No inspiring speeches, celebrities, or grand philanthropic ventures took place at the event. Instead, it signified the beginning of a new venture, called Goodfellows, which…
The Centre has approved ₹9,450 crore for four railway multi-tracking projects adding 410 km of new tracks across four states, connecting 6,448 villages and around 60 lakh people while boosting freight capacity and employment.
A child who fails to reach his genetic potential will have a disadvantage his entire life, be it in terms of intelligence, income generation capacity, or even illness. They become vulnerable decades later; that is the insidious, cumulative cost embedded in India’s latest nutrition data. While the National Family Health Survey-6 does paint a picture…
By early August 2026, roughly 481 villages across Assam had gone completely underwater. 90 relief camps were sheltering close to 30,000 people. Another 94 distribution centres supplied essentials to those who had not been evacuated. This is not Assam’s first devastating flood season. Unless something structural changes, it will not be its last. The death…
