Social Issues
Education, health, poverty, gender and welfare schemes
‘Smog’ in the boardroom: India Inc. confronts the cost of air pollution
Mentions of "air pollution" on corporate earnings calls surged in 2025, with nearly 1,000 references in analyst calls and financial presentations Companies a...
How U.S.-Israel attack on Iran could impact millions of Indian migrant workers
Coordinated US-Israeli airstrikes on Iran on February 28, 2026, triggered Iranian retaliatory missile strikes, with some projectiles landing near US military...
Eczema and asthma in children: How household fuels are harming health in poor South African homes
A study of 1,840 preschool children in Mabopane and Soshanguve townships near Tshwane, South Africa, examined the link between household air pollution and ch...
Karnataka Congress stuck in a quota matrix
The recruitment process for government jobs in Karnataka has ignited a fresh controversy over the state's reservation system, with the Congress government ca...
Internal reservation: Dalit Ministers hold meetings to arrive at a consensus ahead of Karnataka Cabinet meeting on March 5
Dalit Ministers in the Karnataka Cabinet held pre-meeting consultations to arrive at a broader consensus on internal reservation (sub-categorisation) for Sch...
United Nations ‘deeply disturbed’ by strike on Iran school that killed 160 children
On February 28, 2026, during the first day of Israeli-US airstrikes on Iran, the Shajareh Tayyebeh girls' elementary school in Minab, southern Iran (Hormozga...
Karnataka’s HPV vaccination plan revived under Centre’s national rollout
Prime Minister Narendra Modi launched India's national HPV (Human Papillomavirus) vaccination campaign on February 28, 2026, from Ajmer, integrating it into ...
India ranks second globally for children who are overweight and living with obesity: report
A new global report — the World Obesity Atlas 2026, released on World Obesity Day (March 4) — places India second globally for the number of children who are...
Gulf conflict: A.P. trying to evacuate stranded people in three days
The Andhra Pradesh government has set a target of evacuating all stranded Telugu nationals from the Gulf region within three days, as the Israel-Iran conflic...
Why finding a stem cell match remains a major challenge for patients with aplastic anaemia
Only 0.09% of India's eligible population is currently registered as blood stem cell donors, creating a critical shortage for patients with aplastic anaemia ...
NEET-UG requirement for physiotherapy, occupational therapy courses deferred to 2027–28
The National Commission for Allied and Healthcare Professions (NCAHP) deferred the mandatory NEET-UG requirement for admissions to Bachelor of Physiotherapy ...
EU experts to start work on social media ban for children
European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen attended the inaugural meeting of a consultative expert panel tasked with advising the EU on a potential s...
Silent surge in districts: Door-to-door screening reveals uneven burden of NCDs in Karnataka
A large-scale door-to-door screening programme for non-communicable diseases (NCDs) across Karnataka's districts has uncovered wide variation in disease burd...
On science and accountability
An editorial intervention has drawn attention to a growing crisis of accountability in India's publicly funded scientific research ecosystem, coinciding with...
Under pressure, Karnataka to revise internal quota of SC communities
Under political pressure from Dalit community groups, the Karnataka government has decided to revise the internal distribution of the 17% Scheduled Caste (SC...
6L kids born with anomalies per year but no national registry to track them
India records approximately 6 lakh (600,000) babies born with congenital anomalies every year, contributing roughly 16% of global deaths linked to birth defe...
Amid West Asian conflict, 4 lakh tn basmati stuck at ports, in transit: Exporters
Approximately 4 lakh metric tonnes (400,000 MT) of Indian basmati rice is stranded at Indian ports or mid-transit as the ongoing US-Israel-Iran conflict disr...
Rural jobs scheme workers flag glitches in monitoring app
Workers under the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGS) have raised persistent complaints about glitches in the National Mobile...
US, Israel attacks Iran: Scheduled, charter flights to be used for repatriation
Following US-Israel joint strikes on Iran (beginning February 28, 2026) and Iran's retaliatory drone and missile campaign across the Gulf region, large-scale...
Iran situation evoking ‘great anxiety’: Govt says some Indians dead, missing amid Iran conflict
The Indian government confirmed that some Indian nationals have been killed and others are missing amid the escalating West Asia conflict, describing the sit...