By Bhaswati Mukherjee The decisive rejection last week in the referendum for reform by 41-year-old Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi has once again plunged Italy and the European Union into a crisis. It underlined the…
By IndiaSpend Team The holy city of Varanasi has Indias most toxic air, and many north Indian cities are recording worse air-quality than Delhi, according to a new report in which IndiaSpend is a collaborator….
By Amit Kapoor Jayalalithaa was to Tamil Nadu what Narendra Modi was to Gujarat. Their respective states symbolise their legacy and present unique models of development that have fuelled the long-standing debate on economic growth…
By Salim David Money is a medium that lubricates the economic system. Without it the wheels creak, and turn slowly. Make no mistake: the current cash crunch will last. Let’s face it — we have…
By Sourabh Kulesh New Delhi, Dec 12 (IANS) The year 2017 is predicted to be that of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and machine learning — redefining the way humans communicate with devices to not only improve…
By Sanu George Is Oommen Chandy’s tenure as the most popular leader of the Congress in Kerala coming to an end? The question has begun doing the rounds after it became known that only three…
By Abhishek Waghmare Eighteen 18 per cent positions of teachers in government-run primary schools and 15 per cent in secondary schools are vacant nationwide, according to data tabled in the Lok Sabha by the Human…
By Vikas Datta An art contemporary Indians seem to have forgone is of using an apt quote from a rich and vibrant literary tradition — and recognising the usage. In what is among his trademark…
Prathamesh Mulye As Indias government – fronted by Prime Minister Narendra Modis Twitter account – announced a slew of incentives to propel Indians to discard cash, IndiaSpend found four signs of an expanding base: Five-fold…
By Saeed Naqvi Consider this very plausible rumour I picked up at the Times Lit Fest in Mumbai: Some Bollywood bright sparks are developing scripts around demonetisation in double-quick time. One of them has, in…
By Amulya Ganguli A month into the demonetisation drive, there cannot but be a sense of worry in government circles about the unchanging ground realities with no sign of the long queues before banks and…
By Abheet Singh Sethi India was ranked 7th in the list of countries most impacted by terrorism in 2015, according to the Global Terrorism Index (GTI), 2016, released by the Institute for Economics & Peace,…
By Malini Nair Around 8.30 every morning, hundreds of workers arrive at the main bus depot in Noida Phase II, about 30 km from New Delhi. They fan out into the lanes of the neighbouring…
Los Angeles, Dec 7 (IANS) Filmmaker Michael Moore says people should feel good about the fact that “majority of Americans did not want Donald Trump as their President”. Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton should “take…
Shimla, Dec 6 (IANS) Himachal Pradesh Governor Acharya Devvrat and Chief Minister Virbhadra Singh on Tuesday mourned the demise of Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J. Jayalalithaa. In a condolence message, Devvrat described Jayalalithaa a charismatic…
By Amit Kapoor The decision at the just-concluded 171st ministerial meeting of the Organisation of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) to reduce production by 1.2 million barrels per day to 32.5 mb/day (effective from January…
By Praveen Chakravarty Prime Minister Narendra Modi addressed the nation on November 8, 2016 to announce the withdrawal of Rs 500 and Rs 1,000 notes. The speech (in English) lasted 25 minutes. The Prime Minister…
By Vikas Datta The London policeman, a member of the modern world’s first professional law and order enforcement force, has long been a model for his counterparts and a subject for crime novelists. However, the…
By Amulya Ganguli It may not be entirely coincidental that on the day Donald Trump decreed that those who burn the Star and Stripes in the US will face “consequences”, the Indian Supreme Court laid…
By Md. Muddassir Quamar Israeli President Reuven Rivlin’s November 14-21 visit to India came a year after President Pranab Mukherjee visited Israel in October 2015. In the meanwhile, Home Minister Rajnath Singh (November 2015) and…