As fatality numbers dominate the debate, around 158,576 people a year survive crashes with severe trauma — and most face the ...

Carbon capture includes methods to trap planet-warming carbon dioxide and either repurpose it or store it safely beneath the ...

HIV spreads in the human body by targeting and infecting T cells, the critical white blood cells of our immune system. PrEP ...

Ayman Khan works in healthcare management in New Delhi, reporting on elder care and healthcare systems. As India’s elder care policies emphasise care at home, parliamentary data show that services ...

As India’s elder care policies emphasise care at home, parliamentary data show that services often fall short, shifting the burden to hospitals, families and unpaid caregivers.

One of the results of this underspending on public education is that over one million government schools, where over half (52%) of India's nearly 248 million children study, have remained poorly ...

As India’s elderly population grows with increasing life expectancy—currently 72 —so are opportunities to invest in the ...

Rajsamand, Rajasthan: The year that Chanchal Kumari was born was the year of the drought in Rajasthan--2002. For two years, the state had a severe water shortage--no water for drinking or even sowing ...

Various factors have contributed to this crisis in the city. The Urban Water Balance Report for Bengaluru, released by WELL Labs, a city-based research organisation, highlights some of these concerns.

Ernakulam and Bengaluru: Kartik Naik is in his 40s, and works as a mason’s helper in the Nettoor area, in Kerala’s Ernakulam, where mostly Odia male migrant labourers reside. As polling for his ...

*Note: Data for 1971 were not available for some states. Shown here are numbers for Bihar, Rajasthan and West Bengal from 1981; for Himachal Pradesh, Delhi, Goa, Arunachal Pradesh, Manipur, Meghalaya, ...