Podampeta, a fishing village in Odisha’s Ganjam district, now lies in ruins after coastal erosion swallowed its homes.

The proportion of undertrials has reduced from 76% in 2022 to 74%, the NCRB report shows. By April 2025, the number of ...

Trigger warning: There are references to suicide and self-harm in this story. Bengaluru: When Asif Khan was arrested in Belgaum in October 2006 in connection to the Mumbai blasts in July of that year, ...

Bengaluru: Dowry-related crimes in India are routinely underreported and undercounted, an IndiaSpend analysis of government data and various studies shows. This reflects in official data as well.

Pune: India’s teaching workforce crossed 10 million in 2024-25, latest publicly available data show. Government schools continue to employ the largest share, even as private unaided schools are ...

Noida: India’s maternal mortality ratio (MMR, or the number of maternal deaths for every 100,000 live births) fell from 130 to 88 between 2014-16 and 2021-23, according to the special bulletin on ...

There are several reasons such as the lack of a generation target, low efficiency of renewable power plants, grid congestion, lack of adequate storage capacity, and inflexible power purchase ...

Mumbai: Eleven years after India launched the Swachh Bharat Abhiyan, the Union government’s flagship rural sanitation programme, it has missed its target of ‘Sampoorn Swachhata’ by 2024-25, exposing ...