Delayed reimbursement and disputes over treatment costs have impaired Ayushman Bharat, the union government’s flagship national health insurance scheme, with rising demand not matching its claims.

More than two years after the Supreme Court granted bail, Mohammed Zubair faces his gravest criminal case yet, “endangering sovereignty, unity and integrity” of India, which carries a maximum ...

Fisherfolk near Deepor Beel, a permanent freshwater wetland on the southwest of Guwahati in Assam, have lived and worked here for generations, their ancestors conserving the wetland and protecting it.

Three critical cases impacting the PMLA and its use remained pending before the Supreme Court of India for the past 12 to 55 months. Despite promising to address the larger concern around the ...

More than six years after 17 Muslim men and two minors were accused of celebrating Pakistan’s victory in a cricket match in June 2017, a Madhya Pradesh court found the case was fabricated after the ...

As the union and state governments clear the second phase of mining operations at a controversial coal mine, over 15,000 trees were cut, in addition to 81,000 cut since 2012. Activists say this is an ...

A rise in mechanised excavation of riverbed minerals along the Jhelum and its tributaries has devastated local communities. As mineral production nearly doubled between 2021 and 2023, multiple rules ...

At the 2021 Glasgow summit, India promised to meet 50% of its power requirements from renewable energy by 2030. The $48 billion decentralised renewable energy industry, with solutions such as solar ...

In this second of the two-part series, we look at the challenges faced by the Indian legal system to eradicate the widespread prevalence of perjury and fabrication of evidence. Overburdened judges, a ...

Though perjury, or lying under oath, and fabrication of evidence remain widespread in India’s justice system, prosecutions for the two offences are rare. In the first of a two-part series, we analyse ...

Has anything changed from the British Raj to now? The answer, certainly in the proposed Clause 150 meant to replace Section 124A, or sedition, is an unambiguous no. It proposes that the government and ...

After four people in a religious procession—infiltrated by Hindu extremists wielding swords and firing guns—were killed in an attack by Muslims, two Muslims died in retaliation. As rioting reached ...