We looked at studies that analysed data from nine cities spanning up to five decades. The images reveal three patterns: extreme sprawl that replaced natural landscapes with concrete, the paradox of ...

Priyanka Thirumurthy is an award-winning multimedia journalist with a focus on the impact of climate change and excessive ...

As trees disappear and concrete expands, India's urban heat crisis is costing billions—but Tier 2 cities still have time to ...

“ [M]ore than 90% birth or death events are getting registered”, according to a March 2025 circular by the Registrar General of India. This means, about 2.8 million births—more than the population of ...

From protests against air pollution in the national capital region to protests to save the trees in Nashik’s Tapovan, and from policies to curb greenhouse gas emissions to policies that further ...

For a city famed for its many water bodies, often for the wrong reasons, with lakes spewing fire and noxious foam, there is a lack of reliable records about Bengaluru's vital blue infrastructure. The ...

Gandhinagar, Gujarat: Despite the 14th and 15th Finance Commissions’ recognition of the need for rural local bodies to become more efficient in revenue collection, panchayats’ own income fell 10.5% ...

One such woman Dhruv worked with was her 30-year-old client, M. At first, M did not open up to her, Dhruv said. When M was pregnant with her second child, about three years ago, Dhruv helped take her ...

Mumbai: In the Union Budget of 2025, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman announced that the government would provide internet connectivity to all secondary schools and public health centres in the ...

New Delhi: The Union Budget presented by Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman today comes at a time when India faces the challenge of balancing economic growth with inclusive social development. While ...

Many urban local bodies (ULBs) in India collect residential and commercial waste door-to-door, and transfer it directly to Material Recovery Facilities, a solution to the problem of ever-mounting ...

Noida: This year, India recorded more cases of chikungunya and Japanese encephalitis compared to 2023, while dengue and malaria cases are showing up well beyond the usual months. A strain of ...