India's urban local bodies are underfunded and lack autonomy, but the wealthy are disengaging from reform and finding refuge ...

Reservation has increased women’s presence in local bodies, but representation remains significantly lower in Parliament and ...

Every summer, millions of Indians in informal work lose incomes to extreme heat, as IndiaSpend reported in February 2026.

Internal documents suggest evictions, possible violations of the Forest Rights Act, procedural lapses, selection of ...

Mumbai and New Delhi: From 1951, when the first woman joined the Indian Administrative Service (IAS), until 2020, women have made up only 13% of all IAS officers. Of 11,569 IAS officers who entered ...

Mount Abu, Rajasthan: Thirty-five-year-old Ritu Bhalla was twice diagnosed with blood cancer, at the ages of four and 11. She developed chronic hepatitis B as a long-term side-effect after cancer ...

Bengaluru: Assam has reported the highest rate of crimes against women among all states and union territories for the last three consecutive years for which official data are available. There has been ...

East Sikkim/Soreng district: On a cold winter’s day in January 2016, Prime Minister Narendra Modi declared Sikkim as the first organic farming state in India. “Sikkim is an example in the sense that ...

New Delhi: Jalaluddin Kazi*, 38, lives with bipolar disorder and often has seizures. A resident of North Dumdum near Kolkata, he drove a rented electric rickshaw to support his wife and two children, ...

The first of its kind report titled Budgets for Justice, it analysed budgets of the 11 states with the highest gross domestic product (or GSDP) with a population of at least 10 million--Andhra Pradesh ...

"When we asked persons from the community to send us their bank account details, to forward to the government, around 80% told us that they have no bank accounts," said Tinesh Chopade, advocacy ...