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Foreign-Student Enrolment In Indian Universities Drops 6% Over 2 Years
Foreign students at the Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore. The enrolment of foreign students in India declined by 6% over two years, according to government and United Nations data. About...
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PSU Banks Get Rs 22,915cr Booster Shot
An electrician puts lights on the logo of State Bank of India (SBI) at its main branch in Mumbai, India. SBI, the largest public sector bank, will get the most money–Rs 7,575 crore this financial...
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How Reservations Help Disadvantaged-Caste Students Get Higher Education
Indian pro-reservation activists scuffle with the police as they try to cross the barricades during a protest in New Delhi. A review of education data confirms a growing tide of scheduled caste and...
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278 Communal Clashes Across India In 5 Months
India reported 278 communal clashes in the first five months of 2016, according to data released by the home ministry to the Parliament this week. While 38 deaths were reported in the “incidents”,...
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1931 Data Muddy Issue Of Backward-Caste Higher-Education Quotas
A view of the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), New Delhi. History throws up the question: Now that other backward classes (OBCs) appear to have caught up with higher castes in higher...
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Quickr, E-Bay, Amazon, Snapdeal Among 106 Portals Advertising Animal Parts
As many as 106 online portals—including Quickr.com, e-bay.com, Olx.in, Amazon.com and Snapdeal.com—are involved in “advertising sale of rare animals and their parts”, according to a reply in the Lok...
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Job Creation Slows, 68% Fall From 2014 And 2013
In 2015, India created 130,000 jobs in eight industrial sectors, according to new government data, a 68% slowdown from the 400,000 jobs created in 2014, with a similar number in 2013. The data...
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Muslims At Bottom Of Higher-Education Ladder, Alongside Backward Tribes
A view of the Faculty of Social Sciences building at the Jamia Milia Islamia, New Delhi. In higher education, Muslims (13.8%) trailed all the major religions in gross enrolment rate in 2010–Hindus...
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In 2015-16, 93% Fall In AFSPA Cases Adjudged (Over Previous 3 Years)
Protesters from the northeast stage demonstrations in Delhi against human rights violations under the Armed Forces (Special Powers) Act. The year 2015-16 saw least number of cases resolved in the last...
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In Gujarat, 95 Of 100 Suspects In Crimes Against Dalits Acquitted
People from the “Dalit” community block traffic in Ahmedabad, Gujarat, after four men belonging to the community were beaten while trying to skin a dead cow at Una village. Over the decade ending...
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Mothers, Babies In Peril: 343 Hospitals In 6 States Struggle With Hygiene,...
Half the post-natal wards of primary healthcare centres (PHCs) lacked toilets, as did 60% of larger community health centres (CHCs) in Madhya Pradesh, which has a higher maternal mortality rate than...
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New Law Bans Child Labour–But Not In Family Firms, Farms
With evidence that children who work are 70% less likely to complete high school and are excluded from better job opportunities in their youth, a new law–in the process of being passed by...
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A Toll-free Number Helps Villagers Live With Animals
Farmer Shiva Murthy, whose sugarcane crop was trampled by elephants in July 2016–the fifth such pachyderm raid over the past year–used Wild Seve’s toll-free number for assistance. Field agent...
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Muslims Lead Minority Literacy Rate Improvements Over Decade
The literacy rate among Muslims showed the largest increase of 9.4 percentage points, from 59.1% in 2001 to 68.5% in 2011, among India’s minorities, according to data presented in the Lok Sabha...
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Farm Insurance Payout Triples In One Year
A farmer with his paddy produce in a procurement centre in Raipur, Chhattisgarh. The kharif season of year 2015 saw a 200% rise in insurance amount paid to farmers. Claims paid by insurance agencies...
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More Girls Studying, But 84% Drop Out After Graduation
While more young women are enrolled in higher education than ever before–and apparently more successful in clearing 10th-standard board exams than young men–they are either marrying early or not...
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India Short of 500,000 Police. Why It Matters—And Does Not
India was short of more than half a million police officers on January 1, 2015, the last date for which nationwide data are available, the Lok Sabha, parliament’s lower house, was told on July 26,...
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Indian Airlines Report 122 Drunk Pilots Over 3 years
In medical examinations before flights over three years, 122 pilots of Indian airlines were found to have drunk alcohol, the Lok Sabha (lower house of Parliament) was told on July 21, 2016. Mumbai...
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10,000 NGO Registrations Cancelled, Foreign Aid Set To Drop
Greenpeace activists dump nearly a ton of toxic sludge from the Asanikunta Lake in Medak District, at the doorstep of the Andhra Pradesh Pollution Control Board in Hyderabad. GreenPeace was one of...
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Perfect Storm Gathering Over Smriti Irani’s New Ministry
As Textiles Minister Smriti Irani settles in to her new job overseeing an industry that is India’s largest source of formal jobs, the government’s hope that it will continue to be an employment...
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