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Drowning: An unknown public-health disaster

About 80 people drown every day, or more than 29,000 every year, according to data gleaned from the National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB).

Why malnutrition remains a challenge for India

Rural areas have seen more declines in malnourished children than urban India, due to reduction in open defecation, increase in institutional deliveries and more vitamin A supplements

How India lags China In submarine race

Most of India's conventional submarines are more than 20 years old and are reaching the end of their service life

6 hurdles to building 44,000 homes a day

An estimated 44,000 homes will have to be built every day to meet PM Modi's target of providing a home to all urban poor by 2022

Only 10% of toilet-building target met, 4 years left as funding dries up

With nearly 99 million households still needed by 2019, India will need to maintain the toilet-building pace and make money available.

For climate change, India is a make-or-break player

India has emerged as the world's fastest-growing major polluter and is the single most critical player when it comes to global climate change

670 million Indians in rural areas live on Rs 33 per day

More than half of rural households depend on manual labour for livelihood, and 75% of the rural population, or 133.5 million families, earn less than Rs 5,000 per month.

Northern, Western states hold key to stabilising population

For now, India is the second-most-populated country in the world and by these estimates, we will surpass China by 2050

Rs 11,300 cr Mumbai coastal road likely to be a "disaster", if poorly planned

Holland is providing technical expertise to the Maharashtra government to build the 34.6-km-long road but have warned poor planning can destroy the city's coast

Mathuranpura, the world's worst groundwater crisis

The groundwater crisis in this UP village hold important lessons for the rest of India

Vyapam scam probe will join CBI's 6,562 pending corruption trials

Over the past four years, the CBI has brought down its case-load by no more than 9%, from 7,178 in 2011 to 6,562 in 2014

Up to 75% companies who adulterate, misbrand food go scot-free

Over the past seven years, 72,861 companies were found guilty of misbranding and adulteration

Terrorism has cost Pakistan $100 billion in past 11 years

Pakistan says that the heightened incidence of terrorism is a reaction to the conflict and instability in Afghanistan, after the 9/11 attacks.

Why education does not interest Delhi's child workers

As many as 82% of child workers in the national capital said that given an opportunity, they would not like to attend school

Facts belie minister's immunisation prediction

Only 65% of children are now immunised, the best rate achieved in 38 years since the Universal Immunisation Programme (UIP) was started

#SelfieWithDaughter: Can India save 23 million girls?

India's child sex-ratio is the worst in 70 years, and could lead to a deficit of 23 million women in the 20-49 age group by 2040

India is now world's fastest-growing major polluter

India's CO2 emissions from energy use increased by 8.1% during 2014, making it the world's fastest-growing major polluter.

What villages ignore: water, sanitation, streetlights

Village panchayats are spending money, but there are stark imbalances in where it is going

The missing girls of Maharashtra and Gujarat

Both states are failing to implement a law that prohibits sex selection, before or after conception

Swachh Bharat: 96 percent of Jammu-Kashmir's share unspent

This is despite J&K sanitation being one of the worst in India, with more than 54% households without toilets