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Only 1 In 1,000 Indians Lives In Area With Clean Air: New Study
In 2015, only one in 1000 Indians lived in areas where particulate pollution did not exceed the World Health Organization’s (WHO) safe levels for fine, toxic dust particles called PM 2.5, according...
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Haryana Gave Up More Forests Than Any State, Now Asks Money For Afforestation
Haryana diverted the most forest–79.44 sq km or about 200 times the size of Delhi’s Lodhi Gardens or 900 times size of Mumbai’s Nariman Point–from its forest area of 1,584 sq km between 2014-15 and...
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As Teen Pregnancies Fall Across India, 3 Northeastern States Report Increase
At a time when teenage pregnancy–share of women aged 15-19 years who had begun childbearing–fell in the rest of the country, with some of India’s poorest states registering the highest drops, three...
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Alert For India: Even Brief Exposure To Air Pollution Can Be Deadly, Says...
India, where air pollution touched severe levels this winter, has more reasons to worry about the health hazard it poses to the elderly. Even short-term exposure to air pollution was seen to cause...
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How A TV Serial Watched By 400 Million Changed Gender Beliefs In Rural India
In Pratapgarh, a village that could be anywhere in the Hindi belt, a young man, Ravi, gets to know that his wife, Seema, is pregnant with a girl child, third time in a row. He wants her to get an...
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Educating Girls Can Reduce India’s Population Spiral
If a girl in India studies for 12 years or more–till the age of 18–she is less likely to have teenage pregnancy, less likely to have shorter interval between children and less likely to have more...
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If You Are Among India’s Wealthiest People, You May Have Hypertension
Nearly 13% women and 18% men aged 15-49 in the highest stratum of the wealth index have hypertension (high blood pressure), according to data from the National Family Health Survey, 2015-16...
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Progressive Attitudes to Women’s Sexual Rights In Marriage Decline in India
As the #MeToo movement against sexual violence gains global momentum, in India–the world’s second-most populous country–positive attitudes about consent and safe sex among men declined by 7...
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Budget 2018: After Record Growth, India’s Renewables Progress Slips
In line with its climate-change commitments and domestic pollution concerns, India has one of the world’s largest programmes to expand renewables–a tripling of capacity over the next five years....
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Budget 2018: Why Record Harvests, Govt Spending Not Enough For Farmers
Indian farms produced record harvests in 2017, and the government’s agricultural budget rose 111% over four years to 2017-18. Yet, prices crashed, 8,007 farmers committed suicide in 2015, unpaid...
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Budget 2018: As Cities Swell, Cheques Not Cashed, Progress Slow
With India’s urban population rising by 11 million annually–the equivalent of adding a Bengaluru every year–and urban voters forming a major vote base for the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), making...
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Budget 2018: Highest Funding To MGNREGA In 2017. Yet, 56% Wages Delayed
The 2017-18 budget saw the highest ever allocation to Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA)–the world’s largest make-work programme–at Rs 48,000 crore, but 56% wages were...
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India’s GDP Growth To Decline, Climate Change May Hit Farm Incomes
India’s gross domestic product (GDP) growth is expected to decline to 6.5% in 2017-18, a drop of 0.6 percentage points from 2016-17, according to the Economic Survey 2017-18 released on January 29,...
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Budget 2018: India’s Healthcare Crisis Is Holding back National Potential
India has the world’s highest population of stunted children–short for their age–and the country’s failing primary healthcare and overburdened tertiary care are ill-equipped to handle the crisis of...
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Budget 2018: Falling Education Spending Aggravates India’s Learning Crisis,...
Fund cuts, a learning crisis, poor assessment practices and a shortage of teachers — these factors are weakening India’s demographic dividend, the growth potential a country enjoys when its...
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Budget 2018: India Largest Arms Importer, Yet Defence Of Realm Falters
India is the fifth largest military spender (2016) in the world and the largest importer of arms, accounting for 13% of the world’s total imports between 2012 and 2016, according to the Stockholm...
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Budget 2018: 522 Mn Indians Still Defecate In The Open, Putting Them At Risk...
More Indians than ever before now have access to a toilet, but little attention to education and changing attitudes means that at least 522 million Indians still defecate in the open–leaving many...
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Why Arun Jaitley Must Focus On Education, Health, Nutrition
New Delhi: On February 1, 2018, the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) is all set to present its last full budget before the next general elections to be held in 2019. Expectations and speculations...
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Health, Rural Sector Focus of Budget 2018
Health and agriculture were the focus of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in its last full budget ahead of the 2019 general elections. Finance Minister Arun Jaitley announced the launch of...
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#Budget2018: Farming, Infrastructure Get Big Boost
In the last full budget by the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)-led National Democratic Alliance before the election in 2019, Finance Minister Arun Jaitley increased the allocation for agriculture by...
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