In February 2002, the Supreme Court of India passed an order prohibiting state governments and also tribals and other [...]

They build our cities and infrastructures yet are invisible to us while hiding in plain sight. […]

The World Bank’s recent flagship World Development Report, 2018 addressed some immediate challenges of quality education. One of the [...]

The first of its kind , the National Institute of Nutrition has publised Nutrition Atlas of India and the [...]

World’s greatest cities were founded on the banks of rivers (or other water sources such as lakes) to provide [...]

This animated map shows how the world’s largest cities outgrew each other over time. […]

European societies are ageing. In 1950, only 12% of the European population was over age 65. Today the share [...]

Indian children are on the shorter side when compared with children of other similar countries. […]

The frail nature of rural India’s health systems and the extraordinary patient load on a few referral hospitals have become even [...]

Popularly known as NCR, the National Capital Region is one of a kind in the world. It not only [...]

The National Council for Teacher Education (NCTE) was established in 1993 by an Act of Parliament. It is the [...]

India has a long tradition of bright minds poking holes in some distinctly un-bright ideas. And one such mind [...]

Note – Notwithstanding the cliched nature of the title of this post, this article does not have the objective to [...]

About 5,500 of over 76,000 children tested in nine Indian cities have been diagnosed with tuberculosis, 9% of them [...]

Can droughts experienced centuries ago teach us ways to handle the present ones? They can if we care to [...]

In a recent article in an American newspaper, the doyen among police scholars, Prof. David Bayley, expressed his anguish [...]

Ahmedabad is blazing a trail in preserving our cultural heritage, something other Indian cities can emulate to make a [...]

The health policy of India aims at an integrated approach, which is to provide accessible, affordable and equitable quality [...]