Indian men’s participation in domestic and caregiving work is concentrated in outdoor activities and playing with children, ...

Medical certification of deaths is important for a post-pandemic healthcare response, for medical research and for improving ...

Excessive exposure to light can cause a slew of health issues--from stress, metabolic disorders and inflammation to an ...

The linking of rehabilitation of rescued bonded labourers with conviction of the accused in the central sector scheme is a ...

Central India has recorded five times its usual May rainfall and south India has recorded more than two-and-a-half times the ...

Mumbai: Nisha Singh made a difficult choice when she decided to quit her job at an auditing firm in Mumbai in June 2019. Her son was about a year old. Neither her family--husband and ...

Micro, small and medium enterprises (MSMEs) provide large employment opportunities at lower capital cost than large industries, but this sector is plagued by low levels of registration. As per the ...

Mumbai: Indian migrant workers, hit by the pandemic-led downturn, are confronted with a new challenge--a reduction in the Minimum Referral Wages (MRW) mandated by the government to protect them from ...

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: Poverty and lack of opportunity in their hometowns drove 93 million Indians from disadvantaged castes and tribes in 2011 to migrate to other areas within their states in the hope of securing ...