India File

If you happen to be at Hampankatta (the central business district of Mangaluru) and want to visit the famous Mangaladevi Temple, there is a city bus ...

The promotion of metros as a favoured mode of mass rapid transit seems to have led to a policy neglect of buses in large cities. The recent BEST strike highlights this neglect as well as demands to privatise mass transport systems

For the working poor in cities, commuting is an extremely costly affair

Seema Chandravanshi has been preparing to crack the Civil Services examination for about two years. A resident of Yamuna Vihar in north-east Delhi, ...

...as a part of a social movement in Kerala

It’s a bright January morning but a fog of gloom hangs over old Jajmau road near Kanpur. About 30 men, old and young, huddle in front of a small ...

The UP government is gearing to host around 12 c

Repackaging the Ardh Kumbh supplements fresh chants of Ram Janmabhoomi in the BJP’s effort to consolidate the Hindu vote in an election year. Poornima Joshi reports

The New Year heralds an election season marked by yearning, anger, uncertainty — and above all, hope. Poornima Joshi reports

The town has tried in vain to emerge as anything but a disputed site that divides religious communities

Politburo member of the CPI (M) and former general secretary of the party, Prakash Karat, speaks to BusinessLine on the key political issues in the ...

Modi regime is spending more on material component, less on labour, so people are not benefited, says CP Joshi

In Maharashtra, it appears the rural jobs scheme is being implemented on paper alone. Contractors, government officials and gram sabha heavyweights cream away the funds,reports Radheshyam Jadhav

In March 2015, when she was diagnosed with stage-four colon cancer, Bengaluru-based Priya Joseph* (name changed) decided to fight it the best way ...

From a conversation with Amit Sengupta:Critical of an insurance-based model, the late Amit Sengupta from Jan Swasthya Abhiyan (JSA) had said that it ...

Indu Bhushan (57) is at the helm of what is pegged as the world’s largest government-funded health scheme — Ayushman Bharat, which provides health ...

Healthcare in India is unaffordable for most people. However, the wheels of health financing are beginning to turn, but slowly, says PT Jyothi Datta

Ooty’s infrastructure serves far more people than it was meant to handle

The effects of ‘Incredible Overkill’ are only too visible in Shimla and Ooty, where the courts have stepped in. But whether it is the Himalayas or the Western Ghats, the problem lies in the development model, says Poornima Joshi

S. Sabu, Assistant Professor in Quality Assurance and Food Safety with Cochin University of Science and Technology is in the process of developing a ...

In spite of a crackdown, its use continues

The formalin scare in Goa has become a major political issue. Nandana James reports on its business and health impact

 As the political perspective shifts from the holistic approach that early policy planners advocated, public health is now separate from health ...

How malnourished tribal adults come to have the ‘rich man’s disease’