Can India’s cities accommodate climate migrants?

Our urban areas need to have appropriate development policies and programmes to accommodate those displaced by climate change

Over 80% Indians not covered under health insurance: NSSO survey

Most people finance hospitalisation by digging into savings and borrowing

India's data blockade: Certainly uncertain terrain

No recent NSSO survey release passed without controversy

Indians spend most on public transport, communication

More than 60% of rural and urban families use bus as their main mode of public transportation, shows the NSSO survey of expenditure on …

Kerosene consumption through PDS registers sharp increase

Consumption of PDS rice and wheat, too, increase

Women are overburdened with unpaid work everywhere across the globe

India can learn from some of the countries that are taking steps to tackle this problem

Indian diets are unhealthy: EAT-Lancet report

The report compared food consumption patterns in India with a reference diet from the EAT-Lancet Commission

Rural expenditure up by 33 per cent: NSSO

Around 83 million rural people still live on less than Rs 20 a day

Agricultural labourers do not get even two square meals a day, reveals NSSO survey

About one per cent rural households do not get enough food throughout the year

PDS rice and wheat consumption has doubled in rural India: NSSO

Reforms in public distribution system and increase in number of people covered by it could be the reasons, say experts

More than half farm-households in India are in debt: NSSO report

Households in southern states are most indebted; 40 per cent agricultural-households take loan from informal sources like money lenders

Unbalanced diets in G20 countries make 75% of global food carbon budget: Report

Food consumption patterns aligning with current national dietary guidelines can reduce total greenhouse gas emissions for G20 countries

Polls won, waivers announced, but govt has no data on farmer suicides

The last NCRB report published in 2016 said a farmer committed suicide every hour in the country

One in three married couples in India have no room to themselves

NSSO report shows half of India has no access to sanitation, drainage or waste disposal

Huge disparity found in livestock census and NSSO data

This has happened in past surveys also, say experts

India growth story marred by disturbing inequity

68th Round of NSSO makes it amply clear that the wave of economic growth has not percolated down from the 0.003 per cent of population of ruling …

Grim news on jobs front for women

About nine million women went out of the job market in the rural areas between 2009-10 and 2011-12, a grim facet of the employment crisis in …

Welfare schemes benefited only a quarter of urban slums: NSSO

Over 30 per cent urban slums across India have no toilets or drainage facilities, in spite of funds being made available under JNNURM and other …