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India Amongst 10 Countries With Highest Declines In Happiness
India figured among 10 countries that saw that largest declines in happiness levels between 2005-07 and 2013-15, according to a report released last month. The World Happiness Report ranked 156...
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81 Towns/Cities Added To India’s Earthquake-Prone List
Eight new cities and towns have been added to a government list of urban areas vulnerable to earthquakes of “very severe intensity”, even as tremblor ripped through India’s northeast and the north...
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Boosting Delhi’s Bus Services Key To Sustaining Odd-Even System
As Delhi’s odd-even road-rationing for vehicles restarted yesterday for 15 days, the positive response of last time will be difficult to sustain through forced compliance and the absence of...
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Railway Cost Overruns = $16.4 Billion = Annual Salary Bill
Delays in completing railway projects resulted in cost overruns of Rs 1.07 lakh crore ($16.4 billion)–equivalent to the yearly salary bill of its three million employees–according to an IndiaSpend...
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India’s Biggest Farm Reform 91.6% Behind Target
India’s biggest reform to transform the life of a crisis-ridden farmer is 91.6% behind schedule this year, prompting Prime Minister Narendra Modi to promise in five months what could not be done...
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Will You Pay Rs 2,600 To Travel On Mum-Ahd Bullet Train?
The Ahmedabad Duronto Express, currently the fastest train between Mumbai and Ahmedabad, takes six hours and fifteen minutes to cover the distance. A proposed bullet train between Mumbai and...
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Kerala Faces Polls With Declining Gulf Remittances
Indian construction industry workers in Dubai. The coastal state of Kerala—going to polls on May 16, 2016—receives 40% of remittances that come to India, which dropped to a four-year low of $14.9...
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Heat-Wave Death Toll Up 3 Times Over 23 Years
Heat-wave deaths in India have increased 296%, or three times, over the last 23 years with more than 150 already dead this year. Summer heat killed 612 in 1992, with the toll rising to 2,422 in...
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3 Reasons Bengaluru Textile Workers Rioted
Policemen stand next to a damaged vehicle after a protest by garment workers in Bengaluru on Tuesday. Bengaluru’s garment workers–about half a million of them, mostly women–have no pensions, job...
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Primed For Change, But Only 3.2% Assamese Have Aadhaar
A 65-year-old citizenship issue, reflecting the strains of migration, has resulted in no more than 3.2% of Assam being enrolled in Aadhaar, India’s biometrics-based unique identity system, the...
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Will You Pay Rs 2,600 To Travel On Mum-Ahd Bullet Train?
The Ahmedabad Duronto Express, currently the fastest train between Mumbai and Ahmedabad, takes six hours and fifteen minutes to cover the distance. A proposed bullet train between Mumbai and...
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7 am: Peak Pollution Levels In 4 Cities
If you think mornings are the best time for outdoor exercise, you’re wrong. Mornings experience the worst air pollution in four Indian cities, according to an analysis of particulate matter (PM)...
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Now, Instant IndiaSpend Air-Quality Updates On Twitter
The air quality in your neighbourhood–and its impact on health–is now just a tweet away. Starting today, in collaboration with Twitter, IndiaSpend is pleased to announce India’s first real-time...
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West Bengal, Epicentre Of India’s Boom In Sexual Slavery
2000Girls rescued from prostitution by a voluntary organisation, Sanlaap, learn to knit in the eastern Indian city of Kolkata. Kolkata: Over nine years since 2005-06, India’s gross domestic product...
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