HIV spreads in the human body by targeting and infecting T cells, the critical white blood cells of our immune system. PrEP works by blocking HIV from replicating inside T cells after exposure, ...

As India’s elderly population grows with increasing life expectancy—currently 72 —so are opportunities to invest in the ...

As India’s elder care policies emphasise care at home, parliamentary data show that services often fall short, shifting the burden to hospitals, families and unpaid caregivers.

When you think of a state in Northeast India, does an image of a dense forest come to mind? The states of this pristine region have more than 75% of their geographical area under forest cover (barring ...

Ayman Khan works in healthcare management in New Delhi, reporting on elder care and healthcare systems. As India’s elder care policies emphasise care at home, parliamentary data show that services ...

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

Bengaluru: In July 2016, the Union government told Parliament that in its 15-year vision to achieve “total abolition of bonded labour”, it would identify, release and rehabilitate around 18.4 million ...

One of the results of this underspending on public education is that over one million government schools, where over half (52%) of India's nearly 248 million children study, have remained poorly ...

In a reply to a question by parliamentarian Ashok Chavan in the Rajya Sabha, the government said that the annual requirement of blood in the country is 14.6 million units, and a total of 14,601,147 ...

New Delhi: Jalaluddin Kazi*, 38, lives with bipolar disorder and often has seizures. A resident of North Dumdum near Kolkata, he drove a rented electric rickshaw to support his wife and two children, ...

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 ...

Mumbai and New Delhi: From 1951, when the first woman joined the Indian Administrative Service (IAS), until 2020, women have made up only 13% of all IAS officers. Of 11,569 IAS officers who entered ...