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In 2014, India Better Only Than Bangladesh Among Neighbouring Nations In...
India provided electricity access to less than 80% of its population in 2014, according to data from the World Bank. Only Bangladesh’s population, among India’s neighbours, had lower electricity...
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More Education, Fewer Child Brides, Healthier Children
Over 13 million adolescent girls between 10 and 19 years–equivalent to the population of South Sudan–were married in India in 2011, according to census data, but fewer literate women were married as...
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11% Decline In Dowry Death Cases & 6% Fewer Murder Cases In 5 Years To 2015
In five years to 2015, there was a 11% decline in cases of dowry deaths and 6% decline in murder cases despite a 31% increase in violent crimes in India, according to data from the National Crime...
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Why Indian Women Must Eat With Their Families, And How It Can Change India
Morthala (Sirohi district): When the women of this southwestern Rajasthan village sat down to eat, it was usually after the rest of the family had finished its meal — the men first, the children...
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As India Plans Healthcare Privatisation, New Study From Rural Chhattisgarh...
As India prepares a national plan to privatise large swathes of healthcare, a new study reveals how the poor in Chhattisgarh already prefer private care, even though it is twice as costly as public...
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Killer Potholes: 29 Accidents Reported Every Day Over 3 Years
Even as radio jockey Malishka and radio channel Red FM 93.5 are embroiled in a controversy with the Municipal Corporation of Greater Mumbai (MCGM) over a satirical video about the bad condition of the...
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How India’s Sunny, Solar Forecast Could Become Reality
On May 12, 2017, India recorded its lowest-ever solar tariff of Rs 2.44/unit of electricity. That is a 73% fall since 2010, and compares favourably with India’s cheapest power source–coal,...
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How Govt Skills Training Programmes Aimed For Wrong Targets & Wasted Public...
India’s goal of skilling 400 million people under the National Skills Development Programme 2015 is too large, unnecessary and unattainable, a government-appointed committee has found. The...
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Southern, Western States Hit By H1N1 Virus
As many as 13,188 cases of Influenza A (H1N1) and 632 deaths due to the virus have been reported across the country this year till July 2017 compared to 1,786 cases and 265 deaths in 2016, according to...
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Women Migrate For Work At Double The Rate That Men Do
Women migrating for work and education between 2001 and 2011 grew at a rate that outpaced men who moved for similar reasons, shows an IndiaSpend analysis of Census data. In this period, the number...
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Acid Attacks Nationwide Up 9%, Stalking 33% In 2015
Acid attacks increased 9% to 222 in 2015 from 203 in 2014, according to data from the National Crime Records Bureau, a division of the home ministry. ‘Attempts to acid attack’ declined 11% (from 52 to...
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In Mumbai, TB Deaths Spark Data Dispute Between Govt, NGO
India’s richest municipal corporation has denied nonprofit Praja Foundation’s assessment–made from the corporation’s own data–that 18 people die of tuberculosis every day, even as Praja Foundation...
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In 2015, India Better Only Than Afghanistan In South Asia In Providing Access...
With 88% of its population able to access “basic drinking water services” in 2015, India ranked 165 among 233 countries/regions globally, according to the 2017 report of the Joint Monitoring Programme...
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In 2016, India Had 4th Largest Number Of Threatened Mammal Species In The World
India, with 92 threatened mammal species, was fourth in a list of 218 regions across the world, according to data from the World Bank. In 2016, six of 10 regions with the most threatened mammal...
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No Improvement In Drinking Water For Elementary Schools Over 6 Years
Over 85% of rural government elementary schools had a provision for drinking water in 2016, compared to 83% in 2010, while only about 74% of schools had drinking water facilities that were useable,...
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Forest Cover In India Increased By 3,700 Sq Km In 2015
In 2015, forest cover all over India increased by 3,775 sq km–six times the size of Mumbai–as compared to 2013, according to the State of Forests Report. The highest increase was in Tamil Nadu (2,501...
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Only 17 of 100 Biharis support JD(U): Unravelling The Nitish Kumar Myth
Nitish Kumar, the Chief Minister of Bihar, is a very popular leader in that state, with virtues of probity in public life and governance focus on development, the English press and the larger media...
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258 Of 336 Posts For Professors At AIIMS Vacant
76% posts for professors at six All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) institutions are vacant, health minister J P Nadda informed the Lok Sabha (lower house of Parliament) on July 21, 2017....
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MP Mob Attacks Muslim Women Over Beef Rumour; 27th Attack in 2017, Most In 8...
The video shows two Muslim women being slapped, kicked and abused for nearly half an hour by a mob of cow vigilantes, as police stand by. “Gau mata ki jai! (hail mother cow),” the attackers scream,...
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By Ending ‘Zombie Energy’, India Could Cut Premature Deaths From Air...
In 2013 and 2014, India provided subsidies worth $16.9 billion/year (Rs 1.08 lakh crore/year) to produce energy from fossil fuels, mostly through support for state-owned or controlled enterprises....
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