Across rural and tribal India, millions of women and girls still manage menstruation without safe products, accurate information or community support. And the barriers are rarely technological.

Life in rural India can be extremely challenging. Poverty, poor job prospects and gender inequality are just a few of the issues that continue to plague the country’s rural population. Limited access ...

Over the last two decades, India has invested massively in rural roads. Today, more than 70% of the country’s road network runs through rural areas, connecting villages that were once physically ...

From rural youth adoption and AI fashion tools to privacy concerns in smart toys, this week’s AI Tracker maps how artificial intelligence is reshaping culture, business and governance.

Mahatma Gandhi wrote in Harijan, in 1936, that India is to be found in its villages. Today, that still holds true: over 64% of the country lives in its rural areas. While the Mental Healthcare Act of ...

NEW DELHI – In the small village of Alwar, Rajasthan, eighteen-year-old Afseena sat on the mud floor of her home, flipping through the worn pages of her only textbook. She had read the same lessons ...

Objective India had an estimated three to five million excess deaths from causes attributable to SARS-CoV-2 during 2020–2021, ...

The analysis shows that mortality is higher in the rural population due to delayed diagnosis and poor access to diagnostic healthcare services. The statistics have shown a steady rise in cancer cases ...