By Prachi Salve From 1.2 billion people in 2011, India is on course to become the world’s most populous country with 1.6 billion by 2050. If India has to curb its population growth, a higher…
By Ankit Sinha Time was when some popular music channels on TV would regularly blare hip-hop, thus exposing the millennial Indian crowd to names like Dr. Dre, Snoop Dogg, 2Pac and the like. I remember…
By Vikas Datta Makindu town, on Kenya’s Nairobi-Mombassa Highway, is most known for its grand and immaculately-maintained gurdwara, which is a must stop for all travellers, not only Sikhs. Dating back to 1902 (though the…
By Himadri Ghosh Bengaluru: No more than six per cent of a government fund – collected over six years from companies and institutions – meant to restore forests lost to development projects has been used,…
By Saeed Naqvi West Indies cricket commentator Tony Cozier’s death last month brings to an end the phase in cricket when the game’s live transmission depended on the spoken word. Radio was king. John Arlott,…
By Amulya Ganguli In addition to the NGOs, including the one run by Teesta Setalvad, the saffron brotherhood’s new target is a formidable one – Reserve Bank of India (RBI) Governor Raghuram Rajan. Till now,…
By Himadri Ghosh Over the last 30 years, forests nearly two-thirds the size of Haryana have been lost to encroachments (15,000 sq km) and 23,716 industrial projects (14,000 sq km), according to government data. Artificial…
By Chaitanya Mallapur Cyber crimes reported in India rose 19 times over the last 10 years (2005 to 2014), from 481 in 2005 to 9,622 in 2014. India is now ranked third – after the…
By Vinod Behl The thinking in the Prime Minister Narendra Modi government that the realty industry should grow on the strength of economy and not on largesse or quick-fix solutions is reflected in its reform-driven…
By Vikas Datta She still is among the world’s most celebrated actresses, sex and beauty symbol, and popular culture icon, with celebrities ranging from Beyonce to Hillary Clinton depicted as her, while her name and…
Devanik Saha Nearly 12 million Indian children were married before the age of 10 years – 84 per cent of them Hindu and 11 percent Muslim – reveals an IndiaSpend analysis of recently released census…
By Abhishek Waghmare A resident of Pune, Maharashtras second-most developed city, uses five times as much water as her counterpart in Latur, the district most ravaged by drought in the south-central Marathwada region. Thats the…
By Tanay Sukumar Four of five Indians could afford the internet if data costs fell by 66 percent, according to a Facebook-commissioned report on Internet access. But Indian telecom operators already run data services at…
By Vikas Datta It is the time of the year when people across the sub-continent start to look beseechingly at the skies for the season to end the tyranny of a scorching sun in leaden…
By Saeed Naqvi It would be almost spiteful to walk upto the US ambassador and say: Congratulations, you have Donald Trump as president. Which way would he look? Secretary of State John Kerry has already…
By C Uday Bhaskar US President Barack Obamas Hiroshima speech (May 27) is a very carefully crafted document and merits some scrutiny – both for what it contains and what is ostensibly excluded. Predictably, Obama…
By Amulya Ganguli Racist attacks against blacks – in Bengaluru and New Delhi in February last year, in a Delhi Metro station last October, in Delhi a few days ago when a Congolese was killed…
By Chaitanya Mallapur & Video Volunteers It is a criminal, non-bailable act, but manual scavenging continues unhindered. We do not have any illegal forms of work, Charu Mori, chief executive officer of Dhrangadhra town in…
By Akshay Agarwal & Prateek Sibal Two-thirds of central government ministries have not implemented more than 50 percent of assurances given to parliament, even as the government completes two years in office on May 26,…
By Devanik Saha As the debate over an alcohol bans grows across India, 15 people die every day – or one every 96 minutes – from the effects of drinking alcohol, reveals an IndiaSpend analysis…