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India To Be World’s 4th Largest Renewables Consumer By 2030
Over the next 14 years, India is on course to become the world’s fourth-largest consumer of renewable energy, after China, United States and European Union, predicts the International Renewable...
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Cheaper Renewable Energy Soars Past Nuclear Power In India
Renewable energy in India has overtaken nuclear power as the country seeks carbon-free sources of energy to balance its reliance on coal. Renewable-energy generation in India is higher than its...
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Why 52,911 Profitable Indian Companies Pay 0% Tax
“Why is it that subsidies going to the well-off are portrayed in a positive manner? Let me give you an example. The total revenue loss from incentives to corporate tax payers was over Rs 62,000...
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Electric Buses Earn 82% More Profit Than Diesel Daily
Electric buses generate 27% more revenue and 82% more profits than diesel buses per day, according to an Indian Institute of Science (IISc) study evaluating electric vehicles for urban transport....
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On World Water Day, Worst Water Crisis In Decade
Kanha Reservoir, Karnataka, runs dry, May 2014. India is left with only 29% of water in 91 major reservoirs, to face the upcoming three-month long summer. Water levels at 91 major reservoirs...
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Why India’s Governance Frontlines Are Cash Starved
Between 2010 and 2015, funding shortfalls to local governments nationwide—rural and urban—were as high as half the sanctioned amount and annual payments fluctuated extensively, with variations...
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Communicable Diseases Rise 32% In 5 Years; Spending Up 7%
Spending on programmes to control India’s three main communicable diseases—malaria, tuberculosis and leprosy—increased 7% over five years while cases reported, taken together, increased 32%,...
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Dying Pomegranates And The Threat To India’s New Farming
Sikandar Nazruddin Korabu with his family at his withered orchard in Karkamb village, Solarpur district, one of pomegranate-growing powerhouses that have made India the world’s largest producer of the...
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Average Indian Spends $1.8 Every Day; Chinese, $7
The average American spends $97 every day, the average Chinese $7 and the average Indian $1.8, according to Goldman Sachs data and an IndiaSpend analysis. An Indian living in a town or city spends...
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In India’s District Courts, A Crisis Is Revealed
As of today, there are more than 20 million cases pending in the Indian districts courts; two-thirds are criminal cases and one in 10 have been pending for more than 10 years, our analysis of...
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9 Farmers Commit Suicide Daily In Drought-Hit Maharashtra
As many as 3,228 farmers committed suicide in Maharashtra in 2015, the highest since 2001, according to data tabled in the Rajya Sabha on March 4, 2016–that is almost nine farmers every day. The...
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Murder Of Karun Misra, 9 Other Journalists, Reveals Rising Danger
When Karun Misra did die–shot at close range while riding a motorcycle on his way home–it was a shock to his family. He left behind a wife, Payal, and two young children, including a 15-day old...
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Tea Without Sugar More Effective Than IPL Ban
Mumbai can save 150% more water by drinking tea without sugar for a day than can be saved by banning a season of Indian Premier League (IPL)—India’s professional cricket tournament—matches in three...
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India-Pakistan Ceasefire Violations Peaked In 2015
Ceasefire violations along the India-Pakistan border in Jammu and Kashmir peaked in 2015, according to data available from 2009 on South Asian Terrorism Portal, a South Asian terrorism database,...
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How To Get India’s Women Working? First, Let Them Out Of The House
India boasts superior rates of women serving in political office compared to other emerging economies: the nation just swore in its 16th female Chief Minister, Mehbooba Mufti. Yet it lags well...
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Cereal Output To Fall 41%, Pulses 11%, Maharashtra Farm Crisis Deepens
The production of cereals is projected to fall 41%, and pulses 11%, as agricultural growth in Maharashtra is set to decline 2.7% for the year 2015-16, after deficient rainfall in 278 of 355 talukas...
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Indians Eating Foods That Predispose Them To Sickness
By choice or compulsion, Indians across age groups and income categories are falling short in meeting the World Health Organisation (WHO) recommended daily intake of five servings of fruit and...
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71 Indians Die Daily In Car, Taxi Accidents; Delhi Deadliest
The viral video of a 32-year-old man, Siddharth Sharma, being mowed down by a Mercedes car driven by a teenager in Delhi has generated a lot of outrage, but Sharma is one of 71 Indians who die every...
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India Leads World In Environmental Conflicts
Demonstrators stand in their boats in the Bay of Bengal during a protest near the Kudankulam nuclear power project in the southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu October 8, 2012. There are more...
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