India has about 2.5 million people living with cancer and around 100 million people with rare diseases, many of whom require medicines that fall outside insurance coverage and price control ...

As heatwaves intensify, informal women workers are losing income, productivity, and protection—while policy response struggles to catch up ...

Medicines account for 70% of out-of-pocket health spending, often pushing millions of Indians into, or deeper into, poverty ...

Under a fifth of the Union budget is allocated to the social sector, and infra-heavy schemes such as affordable housing and rural roads are leaving money unspent ...

Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh and New Delhi: Santosh Kumar, 44, rides his bicycle slowly, his swollen leg dragging awkwardly behind him with each turn of the pedal. A mason from Har Singh Dev ka Purwa in ...

As climate change intensifies, millions of India’s home-based women workers face worsening heat, unsafe homes, and policy neglect—pushing their ...

The Union health budget is up 9% since the current year. Yet many Indians continue to avoid public healthcare facilities ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...