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Kerala Flood Of 2018 Less Intense Than Deluge Of 1924: So Why Was Damage As...
New Delhi: Kerala’s once-in-a-lifetime rainfall was 2,378 mm over 88 days, four times more than normal–but 30% less and spread over 61 days more than the deluge of 1924, the most intense flood in...
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Why India Must Discard Fear, Give Some TB Patients ‘Game-Changing’ Drug
Johannesburg, South Africa: Like South Africa, India should immediately make available the tuberculosis (TB) drug bedaquiline–till now used as a drug of last resort–to nearly 147,000 Indians with a...
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Daily Wages In India Doubled In 18 Years, But Wage Inequalities Grow
Mumbai: Low pay and wage inequality persist in India despite 7% annual average gross domestic product (GDP) growth over the past two decades, according to a new report by the International Labour...
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Internet Shutdowns Over 6 Years Cost India 1.2 Times Budget For Swachh Bharat
Mumbai: Nearly 16,315 hours of Internet shutdown over the six years till 2017 cost India $3.04 billion (Rs 21,336 crore)–1.2 times the 2018-19 budget estimate for the Swachh Bharat Mission–according...
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India’s Rural Have-Nots: Unconnected, Without Drinking Water, Low Reading...
Mumbai: Up to 23 million households (in over 292,000 villages) without electricity; 7% (43,000) villages without mobile services; 17% rural habitations without clean drinking water; 25% of 14- to...
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660 Million Indians Could Live Longer If India Follows These 5 Recommendations
New Delhi: Provide the public with regular information about polluters and fine industries for emissions that exceed legal limits. These are two of five “evidence-based” recommendations to tackle...
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India’s Leather Exports Decline, As Cow-Related Violence Increases
New Delhi: Exports of India’s leather industry declined more than 3% in financial year 2016-17 and 1.30% in the first quarter of 2017-18, according to the latest available figures, compared to a...
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India’s Public-Health Failures That PM’s Insurance Scheme Won’t Plug: The...
Kailash Burange holds daughter Sanskruti, as wife Arti and his mother stand next to him. The Buranges live in a remote Maharashtra mountain village with little access to public healthcare. After...
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Make Cooling Panels From Farm Waste Instead Of Burning It And Fouling Delhi...
Agricultural fires in Punjab and Haryana cause about half of Delhi’s air pollution, according to a new Harvard University study. Daniel Cusworth, an atmospheric chemist at Harvard and co-founder of...
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In Winters, 64% Of Delhi’s Fine-Particulate Pollution From Outside City
New Delhi: Delhi contributes no more than 36% to its fine-particulate (PM 2.5) pollution during winters, with 64% coming from sources outside the 56,800-sq-km area of the national capital region...
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To Work Or Breastfeed: Tough Choice Sets Back Women In India’s Informal Economy
New Delhi: Kavita, a 24-year-old home-based worker, makes toran (decorative wall hangings) for a living. She lives in a north Delhi settlement, working eight hours a day for a daily profit of Rs...
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Record Foreign Direct Investment Into India Not Boosting Manufacturing
Mumbai: Despite policy changes, there has been “no drastic change in the broad character” of foreign direct investment (FDI) into India during the administration of the current National Democratic...
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More Indians Die Of Poor Quality Care Than Due To Lack Of Access To...
New Delhi: Some 2.4 million Indians die of treatable conditions every year, the worst situation among 136 nations studied for a report published in The Lancet. Poor care quality leads to more...
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‘Majoritarian Views, Popular Morality Cannot Dictate Constitutional Rights.’...
Mumbai: In a judgment that erased a 157-year-old law and catapulted India from a league of 72 nations where gay sex is a crime to another league of 124 that sees it as normal human behaviour, the...
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‘Government Is Preparing The Ground For Decline Of Rural Jobs Programme’
Mumbai: In the budget for 2018-19, the government allocated the largest sum for the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGS), the world’s largest job-guarantee programme,...
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In A Mumbai Slum, Children Become Healthier, As Their Parents Learn To Tackle...
Mumbai: “I think I perhaps knew how to hold a baby and play with one before I had my own, but not really anything else. I didn’t know what to expect when I got pregnant. Growing up, talking about...
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Why Arrested Activists Shouldn’t Despair: 67% Unlawful Activities Prevention...
Mumbai: Two-thirds of trials completed under a 51-year-old law used to arrest five human-rights activists recently ended in acquittal or discharge in 2016, the latest year for which national crime...
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Central Govt Expenses On Civilian Salaries Up 3 Times In A Decade, Vacancies...
Mumbai: The central government’s expenditure on the salaries of civilian employees increased three-fold in 10 years between 2006-07 and 2016-17, even as nearly 500,000 posts remained vacant, on...
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