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Fewer Women MLAs In Bihar Assembly
In the newly elected Bihar vidhan sabha (Legislative Assembly), women legislators have declined to 28, six fewer than the 34 elected to the last assembly in 2010. Although still higher than the...
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Why Bihar’s Loss Can Hurt BJP in Rajya Sabha
The indirect impact of losing the Bihar assembly elections for the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) could be in getting important laws passed in parliament. The loss may not appear major for India’s...
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What Nitish Must Do: Create Wealth, Jobs
As Nitish Kumar returns as the chief minister of the state with India’s poorest people, his game plan should be clear: Press on with policies that offer educational opportunities and further...
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68 Million Working Women = $700 Billion Boost For India
India could boost its gross domestic product or GDP by $700 billion (Rs 46 lakh crore) or 16% more than its business-as-usual growth within ten years by putting women on par with men, according to a...
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Skewed Composition Of Coastal Authorities Threatens Climate Resilience
They are supposed to be independent authorities charged with safeguarding a vulnerable coastline–made more so in an era of climate change–along more than 7,500 km, but a recent study has found...
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Through November, Punjab Farm Fires Imperil Delhi’s Air
A farmer in Chandigarh burning paddy husks after a harvest. Since September 2015, an ecological and public health disaster has been unfolding in Indonesia, as fires burn out of control. Such fires...
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Maharashtra Most Indebted, Tamil Nadu Gathering Debt Fastest
Union Finance Minister Arun Jaitley (left) with Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis (right). India’s most industrialised state, Maharashtra, has the largest debt of Rs 338,730 crore ($51...
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Reform Prospect: 29% Central Employees To Retire In 10 Years
One of the chief problems in reforming India’s bureaucracy is that it is a powerful pressure group, which does not like to see a drop in its influence or a drop in its numbers. Now, a rare...
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Why 781 Indians–Needlessly–Die Every Winter
As many as 10,933 Indians (an average of 781 per year) have died over the past 14 years–between 2001 to 2014–due to “cold and exposure”, an analysis of statistics on accidental deaths due to natural...
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415 Million Indians Have Never Been To An Educational Institution
“You can tell the condition of a nation by looking at the status of its women,” India’s first Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru said. As many as 415 million people in India, almost three times the...
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Children At Work 70% Less Likely To Finish 10th Standard
“India is the only country trying to become a global economic power with an uneducated and unhealthy labour force.”—Nobel laureate Amartya Sen, during a speech recently at the London School of...
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Programme Keeps Mothers Safe But Boosts Population
More mothers are being kept safe and alive thanks to a government programme, but its unintended consequence in high-population-growth states could be an increase in female fertility, a new study has...
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Paris Climate Talks: Trouble For The World—And India
The world has used up two-thirds of its carbon space for a 2-degrees-Celsius temperature rise, consumed 35% of known fossil-fuel reserves and cut a third of global forests. These are the numbers...
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Introducing #Breathe, The IndiaSpend Air Quality Index Network
To democratize data critical to savings thousands of lives, IndiaSpend is happy to announce the launch its own network of low-cost sensors to measure the air quality in many Indian cities. We hope...
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Gujarat’s Courts Need 287 Years To Clear Pending Cases
Image for representational purposes only India’s lower courts, burdened by more than 25 million pending cases, need at least 12 years to clear the backlog. The disposal rate varies from state to...
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2 Million Cases Await Justice For Decade Or More
When the Gujarat government decided to build a municipal market in Vadodara in the early 1980s, it acquired land from a man we will call Mr X, who said he was paid nothing. His family does not want...
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If India Had Enough Lower-Court Judges, Delays Would Drop 83%
Cases decided over a five-year period—between 2009 and 2013—in India’s district and subordinate courts–would have increased by 25%, if all judicial positions were filled, according to an analysis by...
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Chubby, Affluent: India’s New Face of Malnutrition
Broadening girths are expanding India’s battle against malnutrition, a new Indian study has revealed, setting off a host of so-called lifestyle ailments. This is happening as India fights a losing...
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644 Or 1,227? Home Ministry’s Internal Data Dispute
India experienced 644 communal riots in 2014, according to data released by the home ministry. But if you believe data released by the National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB)–a home ministry...
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Climate Change Can Push 45 Million Indians Into Poverty
Climate change could effectively negate India’s economic progress, pushing 45 million Indians into extreme poverty over the next 15 years, according to a World Bank report published last month. In...
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