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If National Streetlight Plan Works, India Will Save Rs 5,000 Cr Every Year
People walk through a road illuminated by street lights in Allahabad, Uttar Pradesh. The government’s Street Lighting National Programme aims to replace 35 million conventional street lights with LED...
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The Global Cost Of India-Pak Nuclear War
The Agni-V Missile in a dress rehearsal for the Republic Day Parade in January 2013. After a terrorist attack on an army garrison in the Kashmir town of Uri claimed the lives of 18 Indian soldiers, as...
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Behind Pakistan’s Military Confidence: China’s Growing Shadow
China’s People’s Liberation Army troops (right) and Pakistani troops attend a flag hoisting ceremony at the start of joint military exercises in Abbotabad, 85 km (53 miles) northwest of Islamabad, in...
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Over 17 years, Same 5 States Hobble Sanitation Mission
Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, Madhya Pradesh, Odisha and Jharkhand are the worst performing states under the Swachh Bharat Mission (SBM), which will celebrate its second anniversary on October 2, 2016, with...
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30% To 40%: Will India Accept Paris Clean-Energy Target Tomorrow?
As India prepares to ratify the terms of the Paris Agreement on climate change on October 2, Gandhi Jayanti, it must prepare to fulfil a global commitment by ensuring 40% of its power capacity comes...
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Delhi Continues To Top World’s Most Polluted Megacities List: WHO
Delhi’s air is the worst among world megacities, the World Health Organisation (WHO) confirmed recently, even as IndiaSpend‘s #breathe network of air-quality sensors reported fine-particulate-matter...
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Tamil Nadu, Kerala Have Most Women Entrepreneurs–And High Female Literacy
An artisan paints the idols of Hindu Gods and Goddesses at a workshop in Mumbai. The five states with the largest proportion of literate women–Tamil Nadu, Kerala, Andhra Pradesh, West Bengal and...
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50% Of UP Anti-Foeticide Funds Unspent, India Global Ranking Hit
An expectant mother having an ultrasound examination in Anand, Gujarat. The Uttar Pradesh government has left unspent about half the funds it was allocated to curb female foeticide, according to a...
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Without Knowing Its Test-Tube Babies, India Seeks To Control Their Lives
Surrogate mothers rest inside a temporary home provided by an in-vitro fertilisation centre in Anand, Gujarat. The government has hardly any data to help it regulate the assisted reproductive...
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Diarrhoea, Pneumonia Kill Bihar Children, But Parents Shun Award-Winning...
An ambitious $23-million (Rs 153.5 crore), award-winning five-year-old programme funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation to arrest childhood diarrhoea and pneumonia in Bihar–a state with...
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New Questions Over India’s $165 Bn Gamble Of Linking Rivers
A view of the Betwa river in Orchha, Madhya Pradesh. A new analysis of rainfall data reveals that monsoon shortages are growing in river basins with surplus water and falling in those with scarcities,...
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With Deadline 1 Month Away, UP’s Homes For Urban Poor 73% Incomplete
A man flies a kite on the roof of his house near the Taj Mahal in Agra, Uttar Pradesh. One in four people in UP’s urban areas–or 8.5 million of 34.5 million–lives in a slum, and the state’s cities and...
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Why Boycott Calls Against China—India’s Largest Trade Partner—Will Fail
Chinese crockery for sale in Mumbai’s Manish market. The 500-shop market, next to the Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus, sells mainly Chinese goods, from fancy lights to toys Indian politicians are...
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20% Hike In Taxes Could Cut Sugar Drinks Use By 20%
Government policies that increase final retail price of sugary drinks by at least 20% would lead to proportional reduction in consumption of such products, according to a new report Fiscal Policies...
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50% Rise In Diabetes Deaths Across India Over 11 Years
With a genetic predisposition brought to the fore by changing lifestyles, deaths due to diabetes increased 50% in India between 2005 and 2015, and is now the seventh most common cause of death in...
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India Improves Global Competitiveness But Core Issues Persist
A view of a steel factory in Gujarat. India ranked 39th out of 138 countries in the Global Competitiveness Index. Amongst 12 sub-indicators considered to arrive at the index, India fared worst at...
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Cheaper, But More Damaging: India’s Plan To Cut Global Warming Gases
A technician fills Isobutane gas, an alternative refrigerant to hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs)–major greenhouse gases, with a warming potential ranging from less than 1 to over 12,000 times that of CO2–in...
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In 1 Year, India’s TB Deaths Doubled. Here’s Why
India had double the number of estimated deaths by tuberculosis (TB) in 2015–480,000 deaths, up from 220,000 deaths in 2014–because previous estimates were too low, according to the World Health...
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Nearly 80% Of Divorced Indian Muslims Are Women
In India, for every divorced Muslim man, there are four divorced Muslim women, an IndiaSpend analysis of Census 2011 data shows. Across religious communities, except Sikhs, there are more divorced...
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Undertrial Prisoners In India = Population Of Barbados
* Rudal Shah, arrested in 1953, remained in Bihar’s Muzaffarpur jail for 30 years despite being acquitted in 1968. * Boka Thakur, arrested at age 16, was jailed and detained without trial for 36...
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