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Half Of India’s Airport Narcotic-Hauls In Delhi
Indira Gandhi International (IGI) Airport in Delhi is becoming a transit point of the drug trade, minister of state for home affairs Hansraj Ahir told the Lok Sabha (lower house of parliament) on...
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8 Promises Modi Made On I-Day 2015: Some Met, Some Works-In-Progress
As Prime Minister Narendra Modi is set to deliver his third Independence Day speech on August 15, he is inviting ideas from citizens on issues he should speak on. Share your ideas for the PM's...
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Prime Minister’s 70th Independence Day Speech: Fact Check
Prime Minister Narendra Modi paying floral tributes at the Samadhi of Mahatma Gandhi, at Rajghat, on the occasion of 70th Independence Day, in Delhi on August 15, 2016. IndiaSpend/FactChecker did a...
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Modi Criticises Pak, Its 15-Year Terror Bill Is $118 Billion
As Prime Minister Narendra Modi criticised Pakistan–without naming the country–for supporting terror groups, 671 infiltration incidents and 738 terrorist attacks were reported in Jammu and Kashmir...
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47 Million Indian Youth Drop Out by 10th Standard
India has 47 million youth of secondary and higher secondary school-going age out of school, according to a report by the UNESCO Institute for Statistics and Global Education Monitoring, a United...
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In 2016, Karnataka Charged Students, Union Leaders With Sedition—Amnesty Latest
The police investigation against Amnesty International India—for slogans raised during an event the global advocacy organised—is the second such sedition complaint registered by the police in...
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Why Olympian Malik Is Important For ‘Gender-Critical’ Rohtak
Sakshi Malik with her coach Kuldeep Singh at Rio Olympics. Malik’s home district of Rohtak in Haryana is one of 262 Indian districts and cities listed as “gender critical”, areas where the sex ratio...
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77 Million Women Added To Banking System In 1 Year
As many as 358 million Indian women (61%) have bank accounts, up from 281 million (48%) in 2014, the biggest jump for “banked” women among eight South Asian and African countries surveyed by...
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Banks Race To Targets, Rural Women’s Groups To Defaults
Nirmala Devaki, a landless farmer from Dastikoppa village in Karnataka’s northwestern Dharwad district, had borrowed Rs 10,000 from her self-help group for her cousin’s marriage. At a monthly interest...
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India’s (Official) Olympic Spend A Third Of UK’s—And Falling
A part of the Indian contingent that participated in Rio Olympics 2016. India’s performance deteriorated, from six medals in London Olympics 2012, to two at Rio. India’s last Olympic gold-medal...
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As Cases Double In India’s Green Court, It Pares Delays
A festival organised by spiritual guru Ravi Shankar’s Art of Living, on the floodplains of the Yamuna river, near Delhi. The National Green Tribunal, which will deliver a judgement next month, has had...
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92% Of Villages ‘Electrified’ Have Houses Without Power
As many as 78% of the 18,452 inhabitable villages the government set out to provide with power have been ‘electrified’. However, 92% of the 10,072 newly electrified villages include homes which do...
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Despite Sporting Glory, Indian Women Struggle To Rise
In the 2016 Rio Olympics, shuttler PV Sindhu became the first Indian woman to win a silver medal; Sakshi Malik the first Indian female wrestler to win a medal (bronze), gymnast Dipa Karmarkar became...
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Only 1 Of 27 Indian Sports Bodies Has Athlete As President
Athletes take part in the 35th National Games held in Kerala in 2015. The Athletics Federation of India is the only sports association among 27 studied to have a former national athlete as president....
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In Rural India, Less To Eat Than 40 Years Ago
As India’s 70th year of Independence begins, widespread progress is evident, but in rural India, where 833 million Indians (70%) live, people are consuming fewer nutrients than are required to stay...
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2016 Most Poetic Year In Lok Sabha History
With a series of key legislation debated and passed, the 16th Lok Sabha was among India’s most important parliamentary sessions, but members made sure it was also the most poetic session in history....
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Manual Scavenging A Crime. Govt Agencies Dodge Law
The rail ministry said NO to a question in the Lok Sabha on May 4, 2016, when asked whether it is India’s largest employer of manual scavengers–sanitation workers who clear human excreta, a banned...
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Private Hospitals Treat Twice As Many TB Cases As Govt
A woman walks by as municipal workers fumigate a street in central Mumbai. India now has an enormous number of tuberculosis patients, “appreciably higher than is currently recognised”–between 1.9...
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How Incurable Japanese Encephalitis Threatens Emerging India
Jayanta Potshangbam, a junior resident medical officer at the Shija Hospital & Research Institute, Imphal, Manipur, looks over a 58-year-old male patient of Japanese encephalitis (JE), in critical...
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Fewer Indians Using Contraception, Despite Better Awareness, Services
A sex worker blows a condom inside a tram car during an AIDS awareness programme in Kolkata. Despite greater access to knowledge, fewer people are accessing contraceptives, by choice or for factors...
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