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Marathwada Worst Hit, As Monsoon Stutters In Half Of India
Image used for illustrative purposes only. Pune and Marathwada: From driving tractors, to driving cars, Laxman (he did not want his full name used) has come a long way from being a farmer in...
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Subsidies To 234 Stagnant State Companies Double, Now $30 Bn
Delhi doubled subsidies to 234 centrally run public sector units (PSUs) over three years to about Rs 1.73 lakh crore ($30 billion), but a new analysis of their finances indicates a 4% fall in...
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BSNL: Big Losses, But Can India Live Without It?
New Delhi: Once India’s leading telecommunication giant and among its most-profitable state-run companies, Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL) has posted a loss for the fifth straight financial...
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Gujarat Easiest For Business, But Maharashtra Gets Most FDI, Delhi Second
Gujarat may have emerged, in a recent report, as the best state to do business, but it is Maharashtra that receives the most foreign direct investment (FDI), followed by the National Capital Region...
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How Fixing Air India Can Help India
New Delhi: India’s national carrier Air India, the brand that today encompasses both the erstwhile Indian Airlines and Air India, has posted a loss (Rs 5,547 crore) for the eighth successive year...
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No Drought In India–Yet–But Rains Stay Away
While India witnessed a 30% deficit in rainfall last week (September 10-16), there has been a 16% deficit in rainfall across India over the entire monsoon season. With the rainfall short by 63%,...
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Why Start-Ups, Not Small Industries, Are India’s Salvation
On the heels of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Independence Day “Start-up India, Stand up India” campaign launch, finance minister Arun Jaitley introduced the India Aspiration Fund, a Rs 2,000 crore...
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83% Shortage Of Specialists In Community Health Centres
India’s public-health system needs urgent attention and investment–especially in the rural areas, reveals an IndiaSpend analysis. There is an 83% shortage of specialist medical professionals in...
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In 8 Years, Boys 3 Cm And Girls 1 Cm Taller
Eighteen-year-old boys from India’s middle and upper classes are 3 cm taller and girls 1 cm taller than they were eight years ago, according to the latest growth charts published this year for...
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Road Mishaps Kill 382 Daily – 1682 Times More Than Terrorism
India’s daily death toll due to road accidents is more than four times the annual death toll from terrorism. As many as 139,671 people lost their lives on India’s roads during 2014 – 382 deaths...
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Fire Accidents Kill 54 Every Day, Yet Deaths Have Declined
The death of at least 89 people in a massive explosion at a restaurant in Petlawad town in Madhya Pradesh’s Jhabua district spotlights the risk posed by fire accidents, which killed 113,961 people...
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Why Masahun Khatun And 50,000 Pregnant Women Died
Rafiq Khatun, a daily wage labourer from Phulvari Sharif in eastern Bihar, lost his wife Masahun in a botched abortion. Last year, in eastern Bihar’s Phulvari Sharif, 24-year-old Masahun Khatun was...
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From Proxies To Politicians: Bihar’s Female MLAs
A former sweeper from a Mahadalit–or lowest of the low–castes, Bhagirathi Devi (centre), 65, is among 28 female MLAs from Bihar contesting the forthcoming assembly election of their own standing,...
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States With Worst Sex Ratios Have Most Female MLAs
States with poor development indicators for women (mainly sex ratio and female literacy) have higher representation of women in their vidhan sabhas (legislative assemblies) according to an analysis...
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Power Demand Up 94%, But Bihar Cannot Cope
Bihar is now India’s second-fastest growing economy among poor states, with a peak power demand that has risen 94% about seven years. This growth-driven surge in electricity demand sounds...
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How Ignorance Cuts India’s Healthy Life By Half
In 2013, Indian men could expect to live to 64.2 years, 6.9 years longer than in 1990, according to the Global Burden of Disease study, an initiative led by the Institute for Health Metrics and...
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96% Villages Electrified. Yet (In 6 States) 31% Homes Lack Electricity
Nearly 96% villages in India are electrified but only 69% of homes have electricity connections, according to a new report that draws on data from six states. The data imply that a large part of...
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95% Rural Homes Use Wood, Dung For Cooking In 6 States
As many as 95% of rural homes across six energy-deficient states (Bihar, Jharkhand, Madhya Pradesh, Odisha, Uttar Pradesh and West Bengal) still use traditional fuel, such as firewood, dung cakes...
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Rajasthan’s Revolution: In 30 Panchayats, More Girls Born Than Boys
Mali Devi with her two-year-old—and second—daughter Khushi at their home in Dolatpura Kotda, 35 km north-east of Jaipur, Rajasthan’s capital. The panchayat is one of 30 where more girls were born than...
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Karnataka, MP, UP, Bihar–India’s Communal Tinderboxes
Family members of Mohammad Akhlaq, who was killed by a Hindu mob, mourn his death at Bisara village in Uttar Pradesh, India, October 2, 2015. He was killed because of rumours that he slaughtered a...
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