This archive collects solutions-journalism stories and milestones from India — covering health, environment, education, technology, and social progress. Each entry highlights real developments and the people behind them.
According to a recent study for estimating the prevalence of blindness and visual impairment in the Indian population, more than one fourth of people in India aged 50 years and above are visually impaired.
Ever since India’s performance in the 2017 Women’s ODI World Cup in England, where they lost to the hosts in the final, the popularity of women’s cricket has seen an unprecedented rise in the country.
A law dating from 1971 had limited the procedure to married women, divorcees, widows, minors, “disabled and mentally ill women” and survivors of sexual assault or rape.
CERVAVAC, India’s first homegrown cervical cancer vaccine, is priced at just $2.50 to $5.00 per dose — a fraction of what HPV vaccines have cost in wealthy countries for nearly two decades. Developed by the Serum Institute of India, it protects against the HPV strains responsible for the majority of cervical cancers worldwide, and the company aims to produce around 200 million doses in its first two years. Cervical cancer is almost entirely preventable, yet it still kills hundreds of thousands of women each year, mostly in lower-income countries where vaccines have been priced out of reach. An affordable, locally made option doesn’t just change the math for India — it points toward a future where health tools belong to the people who need them most.
Droupadi Murmu became India’s first president from a Scheduled Tribe community when she took office in July 2022, representing roughly 104 million people whose voices have rarely reached the country’s highest institutions. Born in a small Santali village in Odisha, she was the first girl from her village to attend college and began her career as a schoolteacher and government clerk before entering politics in 1997. She later served two terms in the state legislature and as Governor of Jharkhand. While the presidency is largely ceremonial, who holds it shapes how India tells its own story — and her rise sends a powerful signal about belonging in public life, echoing far beyond India for every community still waiting to see itself reflected at the top.
The country generates around four million tons of plastic waste per year, about a third of which is not recycled and ends up in waterways and landfills that regularly catch fire and exacerbate air pollution.
The International Rhino Foundation announced the milestone, reporting that the population now numbers 4,014 individuals—up from just 100 individuals 50 years ago.
The highest court in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu has ruled that “Mother Nature” has the same legal status as a human being.
The global bank’s policy research team said the poverty headcount in the country has dropped from 22.5% in 2011 to 10.2% in 2019 with rural areas showing better results.
At COP26, India announced the target to have 500 GW of renewable energy capacity by the end of the decade. These green bonds will offer a major boost toward this end.
