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@ISignalOfficial has been a member of Linktree for 7 years and joined in July 2019. The social media accounts linked to from @ISignalOfficial are: • Facebook • Instagram • YouTube • LinkedIn • Email • Telegram • X Besides social media accounts, ISignalOfficial has populated their site with: • Why India Needs Better Flood Preparedness • Farmers part of projects under voluntary carbon markets say they have not been informed of potential earnings from credits • Why Real Impact Of Assam’s Riverbank Erosion Is Unclear • Complaints rose fivefold since 2021, and digital payment and ‘digital arrest’ scams surged • Different departments have different estimates, but a national figure is missing • Researchers say paper-leak cases need immense human and technical intelligence, but police and forensic agencies face a resource crunch • High Trial Pendency In Fast Track Special Courts Set Up For Child Sexual Abuse Cases • What’s Slowing Down India’s Fast-Track Courts • Mining for critical rare earth elements is changing coastlines, holding consequences for the lives and livelihoods of coastal communities • In punishing geography with connectivity nearly cut for five months a year, TB elimination took “remarkably simple things done consistently”, says Rakesh PS • The climate pattern could potentially weaken an already below-normal monsoon this year, which could have cascading effects on weather, agriculture and inflation • More than a quarter of India’s men and women are now overweight or obese. Experts point to changing diets, nutrition and lifestyle factors behind the trend • Inadequate geological investigations, very sharp slopes going up to 60-70 degrees, roads being too wide, roads right by the riverside, deforestation are increasing disasters in India’s Himalayan states, says environmentalist Ravi Chopra • Textile parks under a two-decade-old scheme have not met their investment and employment generation targets, audits have found • While some increase is expected with improved access to emergency care, experts say coercion and commercialisation are to blame for unnecessary C-section deliveries • Indian children are now taller than before, but their weights have not improved • 3 Workers Die Every Day In Indian Factories, Govt Data Show • The world’s 12th most polluting landfill is in Mumbai. Despite multiple laws and rules, the city has failed to prevent its wet waste from reaching landfills, contributing to pollution and warming • Kidnapping and POCSO made up 77% of all registered cases, nine in 10 cases before courts remained pending at the end of the year • Snakes & Ladders: India's Path Out Of Poverty • #DataViz: Are Indian Schools Ready For The Digital Age? • Despite high-speed trains and higher safety spending, Indian Railways continue to battle chronic delays. Data and experts point to aging infrastructure, poor maintenance, and congestion • The health ministry intends to promote India as a quality healthcare destination worldwide but does not have a plan yet • Explained: The Critical Mineral Foundation Missing In India’s Climate Ambitions • The Missing Diversity In India’s Justice System • Nearly half of India’s undertrial prisoners are aged between 18 and 30 years • Why Indian Women Struggle To Get Even A Legal Abortion • Compared to the Union government’s social security code, the state gig work legislations go further by not just providing a framework, but also regulating certain aspects of conditions of work, says Saurabh Bhattacharjee • There’s a dearth of large nationwide studies, but smaller surveys in various parts reveal systemic bias, discrimination and harassment of LGBTQIA+ individuals • A new report reveals distinct patterns in migration corridors, including on where and how far informal workers are willing to go in search of work • India’s insurance schemes are centred around hospitalisations, but non-medical costs and outpatient care can push families into poverty • Year-round surveillance for AES and ARDS is vital to identify and contain Nipah spillovers • Cases of ‘cruelty by husband or his relatives’ fell 10% in 2024 vs 2023, but attitudinal surveys reveal entrenched beliefs and women’s reluctance to report spousal violence • Vector-borne diseases present year round, reproductive and child health services affected by flood or drought. Is the present system equipped to handle the new patterns of diseases? • From rain-fed fields to absent procurement centres, India's oilseed farmers lack the systems needed to meet the country's ambitious production targets, and cut imports • How A Case Sets A Dangerous Precedent For Environmental Protection • The move narrows legal recognition and removes self-identification, leaving community members, shelter homes and healthcare providers in uncertainty • Prime Minister Modi has appealed to farmers to reduce chemical fertiliser use three times since 2019. In this period, fertiliser consumption has risen 15% • Evidence suggests that dowry deaths are misreported as accidental deaths, thereby underestimating the number of women who die following dowry harassment • #Dataviz: Heat-Related Excess Mortality Among Women Could Increase By Over 2.5 Times By 2050 • www.indiaspend.com • Why India’s Review Mechanism To Release Prisoners Is Inadequate • For low-income families, a crash turns into a financial catastrophe from which many never recover • As Indian Summer Breaks Temperature Records, Birds Feel The Heat • Explained: Why India’s Early Warning Systems For Floods And Cyclones Fall Short • As the West Asia war chokes LPG supplies and cylinder prices nearly double, Delhi's migrant women are back on wood and coal, breathing toxic smoke in intense heat • As heatwaves intensify, informal women workers are losing income, productivity, and protection—while policy response struggles to catch up • Expert committees constituted to advise courts on medical termination of pregnancy are advocating for the rights of an unborn child, not recognised in Indian law • A fraction of people use air conditioners in India but these ACs together consume just about as much energy as all the electric fans used by the masses • The 16th Finance Commission recommended that heatwaves be notified as national disasters. This could unlock central funding and make way for compensation for death or illness • The linking of rehabilitation of rescued bonded labourers with conviction of the accused in the central sector scheme is a problem for timely rehabilitation • India's 7.7 million gig workers have no shade, no drinking water, and no choice but to deliver through the afternoon heat • Why India Could Miss 2030 Target To Eliminate Cervical Cancer • As trees disappear and concrete expands, India's urban heat crisis is costing billions—but Tier 2 cities still have time to chart a different course • Private school fees are 10 times government school fees, and nearly four in ten secondary students pay for coaching on top • India's urban local bodies are underfunded and lack autonomy, but the wealthy are disengaging from reform and finding refuge in gated communities • Demography Is Destiny: Can India Find Jobs For Its Young Workforce? • Reservation has increased women’s presence in local bodies, but representation remains significantly lower in Parliament and higher offices • Access to water, toilets and shade becomes scarce for both indoor and outdoor workers during summer • #DataViz: Unpaid Wages, Fund Delays Persist Under MGNREGS • #TIL Explainer: How India’s Warming Nights Impact Health • Experts warn that scaling up trial sites without fixing consent failures, financial oversight, and ethics committee lapses will put vulnerable patients at greater risk • Central India has recorded five times its usual May rainfall and south India has recorded more than two-and-a-half times the typical amount. Multiple factors led to these unseasonal rains, experts say • As habitat shrinks and conflict rises, Hathi Mitra Dal volunteers work with forest officials to keep elephants and humans apart • The Last Remaining Bustards Of Gujarat • Between 2017-23, the share of young men in education has fallen from 38% to 34%, more so among upper-middle income households, says Rosa Abraham, associate professor of economics and lead author of a new report • As Karwar's Port Expansion Threatens Jobs & Fisheries, Fisherfolk Question 'Development' • As India resets its TB elimination target by five years, clinicians and researchers say the answer lies in reaching patients earlier—before symptoms appear, and before a fragmented testing system loses them • Labelled As Witches In Rajasthan, Women Face Harassment, Torture And Ostracism • Climate is disrupting coffee production and quality the world over, but a model in AP’s Araku is working towards a solution • What’s In The Blood: Why Trans Persons Can't Be Blood Donors In India • As fatality numbers dominate the debate, around 158,576 people a year survive crashes with severe trauma — and most face the aftermath alone • How Electric Cooking Can Help Indian Families Transition To Cleaner Fuels • Carbon capture includes methods to trap planet-warming carbon dioxide and either repurpose it or store it safely beneath the Earth's surface • Urban Indian women spend more time working in paid employment but they spend as much time as their rural counterparts in unpaid care and domestic work in the household. • Why BharatNet Remains An Unfinished Dream • India’s HIV intervention is plateauing and pre-exposure prophylaxis can help, but needs policy push • As climate change intensifies, millions of India’s home-based women workers face worsening heat, unsafe homes, and policy neglect—pushing their fragile livelihoods to the edge. • As India’s elder care policies emphasise care at home, parliamentary data show that services often fall short, shifting the burden to hospitals, families and unpaid caregivers. • We Should Mainstream Weather Forecasting For Everyday Life, IMD Chief Says • India is greying fast; the support system is yet to catch up • Vast parts of the country are characterised as “blood deserts” where blood is not available for transfusions • ‘India Could See An Epidemic Of Lung Cancer From Air Pollution’ • Jharkhand’s blood banks scarcely organise blood donation camps, lack manpower and adequate testing facilities, records have shown • Cities like Vishakhapatnam, Bhavnagar face a higher risk of their baseline sea level itself rising whereas extreme sea level will affect Mumbai, Kolkata and Chennai in the future • India needs to double down its construction & demolition waste recycling, to reduce the carbon emissions of the building sector, prevent illegal dumping and bring in circularity • Pass rates were lower in schools, anganwadis and health facilities compared to households • India has about 2.5 million people living with cancer and around 100 million people with rare diseases, many of whom require medicines that fall outside insurance coverage and price control • India Is Seeing Fewer, But More Deadly Road Accidents • Medicines account for 70% of out-of-pocket health spending, often pushing millions of Indians into, or deeper into, poverty • Rajya Sabha Reply • Government school enrolment dropped by 8.7 million in a year, yet their Class III reading levels improved by 7 percentage points since 2022 • A volunteer from Bandhavgarh records his experiences of tiger estimation • Under a fifth of the Union budget is allocated to the social sector, and infra-heavy schemes such as affordable housing and rural roads are leaving money unspent • The Union health budget is up 9% since the current year. Yet many Indians continue to avoid public healthcare facilities • While public discourse often remains fixed on the severe winter smog in Delhi-NCR, India’s Northeast is emerging as a critical pollution hotspot • Men were nearly three times more likely to exercise than women, and participation was much higher in cities than in villages • Road Accidents • With no vaccine and outbreaks reported across nearly 400 epicentres, Assam’s pig farmers are bearing the brunt of African Swine Fever • Half of schools have ramps with handrails, one in three have functional toilets. As a result, enrolment drops at higher grades • Between 2003-2020, India's cities warmed twice as fast as rural areas. Satellite data documents exactly why • Citizens Could Save India’s Environment, If A 15-Year-Old Law Is Used Well • Data Viz: The Human Cost of India’s Extreme Temperatures • While India’s water resources dwindle and demand rises, sewage generation is on the rise. Treating this wastewater could help India mitigate water stress • Gautam Menon, professor at Ashoka University, and his team modeled a potential H5N1 spillover in a poultry district. Their finding: Once the virus escapes farm workers' families, only lockdowns can stop it • India’s Gig Workers Remain Undocumented, Unprotected • With a 90% registration rate, India may have missed counting a population equivalent to that of Bhopal • From protests against air pollution in the national capital region to protests to save the trees in Nashik’s Tapovan, and from policies to curb greenhouse gas emissions to policies that further forest diversion, this year saw it all • As the year comes to a close, we explain how deeper problems persist, including a delayed census weakening survey estimates • ‘If You Destroy Aravalli Forests, Delhi, Gurgaon Will Be Devastated’ • Read all Latest Updates on and about MGNREGA • ‘Air Pollution Mitigation Cannot Succeed Without Taking Rural India Into Account’ • Small firms are stepping up, industry-aligned spending is striking, but most funds continue to flow to low-poverty districts • Tripura’s springs are drying up due to deforestation and erratic rainfall. The govt’s household tap water scheme boasts vast coverage, but in hilly villages, many taps remain dry; some never connected to source • Delhi has 38 air quality monitors, but their placement leaves out 65% of the national capital without reliable air quality estimates • Although bus fare subsidies eliminate the economic barrier, major gaps in public transport infrastructure and services continue to strain women’s access to the city • Ram-Mol involves cultivation of up to seven crops in order to leverage soil nutrition and mitigate climate losses, but the laborious system is seeing a decline, aided also by remunerative cash crops • Construction Absorbs Low-Skilled Casual Labour? • Addressing the issues facing agriculture and food supply in the mountainous and hilly states could provide affordable food for all • How Stateless Rohingya Struggle To Find Livelihood & Assistance In India • A Separate Bail Law Can Help Decongest India’s Jails: Experts • 11 Richest States Allocate 4% Of Budget For Justice Delivery • Garima Greh's Struggle for Transgender Rehabilitation Amid Funding Delays • Stories by Shreehari Paliath and Nileena Suresh won awards, while Mansi Vijay and Maitreyee Boruah received jury appreciation • Keeping Rohingya Children Out Of Schools Is A Denial Of Basic Rights • In 2020, 225,000 Indians Died Of Cancer From Preventable Risk Factors • Delhi’s Air Pollution is Killing Children • COVID-19 Lockdown Causing Further Shortage At Blood Banks • India Food Prices Dashboard | Daily Retail Food Price Tracker – IndiaSpend • Communities in the disaster-prone region live on the edge. Many choose to migrate in search of work, but those who remain face mental health issues • The year 2025 was an aberration in terms of food prices, government data suggest • Repeated cyclones, heatwaves, and floods force prolonged school closures, causing irreversible learning loss • Agriculture Policy, Soil Health Crucial For Nutrient Security • How Japan Combines History & Science To Prepare For Disasters • How Efficient Buildings Can Help India Meet Its Climate Goals • Nearly nine in 10 teachers have at least a bachelor’s degree • 22% ‘model’ villages have not been verified even once, while 89% have not completed second verification, exposing gaps in waste management • Read all stories on and about Abortion • AYUSH Ministry's COVID 'Remedies' Lack Evidence, Add To Confusion • Data Gaps: Is India’s Highest Suicide Rate Because Of Better Reporting Or Rising Distress? • 2023 Economics Nobel And How It Relates To India’s Qualified, Underpaid Women • Why Your Groceries Cost 9% More This July • Nearly 50% More Women In Higher Education, But Fewer Choose Engineering, IT • Indian Prisons Saw A Surge In Undertrial Prisoners Over A Decade • Stray Dogs and Climate Change Threaten Ladakh’s Snow Leopards • India Needs An Urgent Early Warning System For Landslides, But Challenges Abound • In the villages of Uttar Pradesh, a test case in environmental law is clashing with inheritance, displacement and politics on the ground • Explained: Why India’s 2025 Ethanol Blending Target May Not Be A Good Idea • Why India Fell From 133 To 142 In The World Press Freedom Index In Five Years • Explained: What’s Green Hydrogen And Why It’s Important For India’s Climate Goals • Objections raised by parties led to a collapsed consensus, a hollow draft, and rising frustration among smaller nations left to bear the plastic fallout • India’s Need To Step Up Solar, Wind Capacity Addition • How Patients—And Private Hospitals—Are Struggling With Ayushman Bharat • Large Variations The Mainstay In ‘Normal’ Monsoon 2024 • Explore all stories about Plastic. • Southern States Best In Justice Delivery, Vacancies Persist Nationwide • How Industries, Chemicals Ministry Influenced India’s Plastic Rules • #DataViz: Where Tribal Students Are Left Behind • Women Who Overturn Gender Norms Face More Violence In Marriage: Study • The Brewing Mental Health Crisis In Indian Prisons • Do More Detected Cases Mean Leprosy Is Making A Comeback In India? Experts, Government Differ • Explained: Why India’s Inequality Is Underestimated • How Man-Animal Conflict Led To Poaching Networks In Haryana • The Shrinking Forests In India’s Green Frontier • The Long Forgetting: Inside India’s Dementia Emergency • 8 Years On, Poor Compliance With Sexual Harassment Law • #DataViz: Over Half Of Delhi’s Garbage Ends Up In Landfills • Poor Enforcement, Training Behind India's High Road Accident Numbers • India’s Unregulated Bidis Harm Workers, Consumers • How Villagers Living Near Coal Power Plants Lost Health, Water Security • How Declining Population Could Impact Finances Of Southern States • AYUSH Doctors Fill In Public Healthcare Gaps By Providing Allopathic Medicines • Birth Certificates Are Citizenship Proof, Govt Says. But 38% Under-5 Children Don’t Have One • In 6 Years Pre-Covid, Average Farm Incomes Rose 59%, Debt 58% • How AC Temperature Limits Can Help Save Energy • 70% Of India’s Farm Families Spend More Than They Earn--Debt Main Cause of Suicides • ‘Caste Census Essential Tool To Advance Social Justice’ • 8 Years On, Are India’s Smart Cities Ready? • AP’s Mango Farmers Battle Climate Change, Pests • Why India Needs To Urgently Address Gender Gap In Digital Skills • Why India Needs To Act Decisively On Microplastics • Queer Indians Forge Alternative Careers Amid Workplace Discrimination • India’s Disconnected Urban Roads Lead To Longer Commutes, Higher Emissions • The Changing Nature Of Indians’ Savings, Debt • India Will Miss 2030 Target To End Bonded Labour–By 98% • India Will Have Largest Population But Data Show The Growth Is Slowing • Why Packaged Foods Continue To Make A Killing • India’s Fight Against Bonded Labour: A Tale Of Delayed Rehabilitation • Census Delays Leave 120 Million Indians Without Access To Foodgrain • Kashmir’s Iconic Chinar Trees are Disappearing • How Light Pollution Harms Health Across India • Thane-Borivali Tunnel: A Shortcut Through Mumbai's Green Heart • At Top UK University, US, Chinese Students Outnumber Indians • Unseasonal Rains Defy Forecasts, Damage Crops, Disrupt Lives • 'Law Not Sufficient To Bring Social Change That Will End Child Marriage' • Why India Needs To Urgently Rehaul Sewage Treatment Plans • Why India’s Fight Against Smoking Needs A Behavioural Shift • TB Care Is Free, But 45% Patient Families Suffer ‘Catastrophic’ Expenses • Why Interest In Multi-Cropping Is Declining In Kachchh • Climate Crisis Makes Sundarbans Population Vulnerable to Migration-Related Exploitation • ‘Mystery’ Diseases: A Tale Of Pathogens & Persistence • How Humidity Is Breaking Your Body’s Thermostat • Why India’s Urban Poor See Worse Health Outcomes • Scorching Heat Threatens Home-Based Women Workers • Can Treated Wastewater Help Meet India’s Increasing Water Needs? • How India Is Turning Into A Popular Medical Tourism Hub • Ayushman Bharat’s Broken Promise to India’s Transgender Community • How Warmer Spring Impacts Harvest, Health • How Climate Change Threatens India's Pulse Production • India’s Illegal Bird Markets Thrive Despite Prohibitory Laws • Why Tribal Indians See Worse Maternal, Child Health • Rating States Based On Faster Green Approvals Could Weaken Environmental Safeguards • Why India Is Struggling To Be A World Leader In Bamboo • India, Bangladesh and Myanmar Face Big Quake Threat • #DataViz: The Rise Of Mental Health-Linked Suicides • 564 People On Death Row In India, Highest Since The Turn Of The Century • ‘We Should Look Upon Refugees As A Resource Not A Burden’ • 2025 TB Elimination Goal Marred By Low Govt Spending, Erratic Drug & Diagnostics Supply • As Earth Gets Hotter, India’s Fisheries Sector Faces Challenges • Why India’s Anaemia Problem Is Worsening • IndiaSpend: Data Journalism & Analysis on India’s Economy • Unfinished Business: India’s Coal Mine Closure Crisis Threatens Just Transition • How Injuries Impact Women In Automobile Supply Chain • Selling Water: How Punjab’s Basmati Exports Are Worsening Its Groundwater Crisis • 'Countries With Leaders Supporting Science See Better Outcomes' • Tribal Workers Keep Cities Clean But Have No Social Security, Paid Below The Minimum Wage • How ASHA Workers Can Help Women Get Abortion • From Cyclones to Heatwaves, How Climate Crisis is Tripping India’s Power Sector • How Getting An Abortion Is Linked To Contraceptive Use • Why More Indians Die Of Sepsis Than Of Cancer • #Budget2025: Four Key Trends in Union Govt’s Social Sector Expenditure • How India Budgets For Changing Climate • #Budget2025: Why Increasing MGNREGS Work Days Alone Is Not Enough • Repeated Displacement Forces Jharkhand Tribals To Leave Ancestral Lands • Maharashtra Villages Struggle To Get Water Under Jal Jeevan Mission • How Pensions Fail the Common Man • How India Fared In Battling Vector-Borne Diseases In 2024 • Critical Data Remain Elusive, As 2024 Comes To A Close • How Caste Identity Prevails Among Odia Migrant Workers In Surat • Watch: Can India’s Ethanol Blending Target Create A Food-Fuel Conflict? • How Caste Shapes Migration From Ganjam • How Ladakh Is Battling ‘Hidden Hunger’ • What A Four-Hour Trek Reveals About Jharkhand’s Healthcare Access • Explained: The Fine-Print In Modi Govt’s Rooftop Solar/Free Electricity Scheme • India’s Fiscal Transition Goals Through The Lens Of Union Budget 2024 And Beyond • Photo Essay: The Frayed Working Conditions In Surat’s Textile Hub • Three Charts On Ayushman Bharat’s Achievements And Shortfalls • Why Elephant Conflicts Are On The Rise In Jharkhand • Data Gaps: Undercounting Disability In India • Elimination by 2027? India’s Final Push Against Lymphatic Filariasis • How Reduced Scrutiny Of Polluting Units Could Lead To Industrial Disasters • How Women in UP Confront A Neglected Disease–And Stigma • Why India Must Keep Covid-Era Oxygen Plants Running • HIV Rates Are Down. There’s Little Else Going For India’s Sex Workers • COP27: What Are India's Plans To Decarbonise Trucking, Shipping And Aviation? • Budget 2023: Is India Allocating Sufficient Public Resources To Prevent Gender-Based Violence? • Textile Waste A Growing Environmental Concern • India Likely To Miss 2030 Child Health Targets • Dams And Irrigation Projects Have Not Brought Respite To Farmers In Marathwada • What India Expects From The Developed World’s Climate Plans • ‘Sedentary Lifestyle Responsible For Diabetes Surge’ • Why UP’s Dengue Cases Have Been Rising • Learning Crisis: 78.2% Increase in Funding But One In Five Grade III Student Struggles to Read • Low Payments, Lack Of Respect: Why Quality Of Free Legal Aid In India's Districts Is Poor • 6 in 10 Newborns Continue To Face Delayed Breastfeeding in India • Habitat Rights Promise To Secure Ecology, Tribal Heritage In Odisha • How Poverty Is Perpetuating Trafficking In Assam’s Tea Gardens • Goa’s 100% Molecular Testing Helps Early TB Detection • How Goa Is Fighting TB Among High-Risk Groups • 34 Million or 373 Million: Do We Know How Many In India Are Poor? • It Took A Pandemic To Let Rural Women Earn — But At A Cost • Climate Crisis In The Sundarbans Makes Women Vulnerable To Trafficking • Uncollected Waste At The Heart Of India’s Plastic Crisis • Why India Needs To Invest In Health, Education Of Adolescent Girls • How A Drug To Treat Dermal Kala-azar Is Affecting Patients’ Eyesight • DataViz: One In Five Families With Mental Health Expenses Fell Below Poverty Line • India’s Tiger Reserves Depend On Undertrained Workers, Home Guards • 32,000 Indians Say They Possess Exotic Animals In Post-COVID Amnesty • How A Rohingya Rape Survivor’s Abortion Became Legally Complicated • No Tigers In Bangladesh Sundarbans By 2070, As Region Faces 100% Habitat Loss Over Next 50 Years • Ageing India Needs Better Primary Care, Universal Health Coverage • Prevention, Awareness Key To Fight Vector-Borne Diseases • Dataviz: Why Indian Districts Are Not Equal • Why Female Sterilisation Remains India’s Most Popular Family Planning Method • India’s Teacher Training Landscape Needs Urgent Reform • In Mumbai, A Mercurial Mithi And Those Who Await A Permanent Address • Wide Gender Pay Gap For Similarly Qualified Indian Women And Men • Explained: Why Air Cooling Technologies Are Heating Up The Earth • In Meghalaya, Traditional Knowledge Inspires A ‘Living’ Staircase • The Case For Better Media, Digital And Information Literacy In Schools • 4,500 High School Teachers Did Not Clear Grade IX • India’s Millets Boom Is Not Helping Farmers’ Incomes • IndiaSpend Weekly | Substack • Why India’s Stillbirths Are Still Not Counted Properly • IndiaSpend Contributor Sneha Richhariya Wins Laadli Award • India UnderSpends On Nutrition, New Nutrition Programme Yet To Be Implemented • Why Marathwada’s Farm Workers Are Migrating Even In Summer • Underweight Prevalence Falls, But India Grapples With Obesity, Micronutrient Deficiency • ‘Drug & Vaccine Funding, Surveillance Critical To End Neglected Tropical Diseases’ • India’s Air Quality Improved In 2022, But Still At Concerning Levels • In Varanasi, Dashed Hopes For Graduates Of Skill India Programme • Road To Myanmar: Beware The Bumps • How Baghpat’s Trafficked Brides Suffer Rape, Abuse • AP’s Cancer Screening Drive Aims To Slash Health Costs, Improve Outcomes • What India Needs To Do Urgently To Support Its Ageing Population • Why A Robust Gig Work Legislation Will Help Women Workers • Low Testing And Climate Change Hamper India's Fight Against Dengue And Malaria • A Camp In Myanmar, Fear From The Skies, And A School Takes Wing • How Youngsters From Small Town India Are Making It Big On YouTube • Rebel Power: Myanmar Regime Loses Key Positions • The Hidden Cost of India’s Tiger Reserves: Loss of Tribal Rights • How India's Solar Training Programme Is Faltering • Why State Govts Are Struggling To Raise Health Spending • Ground Report: Trafficking In Women Rife In Bihar's Seemanchal • In Delhi, A Different Kind Of Heat Worries Slum Dwellers • ‘How Much Land Can We Keep Giving to The Ocean?’ • 83 People Died Every Day From Drowning In 2018, Yet No Prevention Plan • Gender Budget Gets 19% More, But Health, Nutrition Remain Underfunded • Two Decades Of Union Govt Finances In 6 Charts • Explained: How The Union Budget Funds India's Justice System • How Shortage Of Mosquito Nets Is Affecting Odisha’s Fight Against Malaria • IndiaSpend Contributor Sushmita Wins 2024 Covering Climate Now Award • IndiaSpend Story Wins Recognition At SOPA Awards 2024 • How Can India Future-Proof Wheat? • Why India Must Move Policy Away From Population Control • Why Gujarat’s Use Of Tech To Verify Forest Rights Claims Is Concerning • Three Months On, India's Single-Use Plastic Ban A Dud • How India’s Climate Plans Are Falling Short • In A Parched Summer, India’s Water Stewards Show The Way Out • The Toll Of Refugee Life On Rohingya Mental Health • 14% Indians Migrated Due To Weather-Related Disasters, Survey Shows • As India Hosts Global Desertification Meet, A Third Of Its Land In Crisis • Explained: Why Repowering India’s Wind Turbines Will Need More Than Just A Policy • Climate Hotspot: A Warming Arabian Sea Risks Livelihoods Of Fishers on Gujarat’s Western Coast • Koraput’s Gram Sabhas Harness Economic Potential Of Kendu Leaves • How Covid Has Put Children At Risk Of Abuse, Labour, Marriage • Panchayats Need Funds To Become TB-Mukt • ‘Diminishing Inequalities Is The Key To Robust Human Development’ • Weakened Forest, Biodiversity Laws Impact India’s Environment In 2023 • 66% Women Electors Voted In This Election. How Did The Gender Gap In Voting Close? • New Lok Sabha Will Have Fewer Women • IndiaSpend: Data journalism, analysis on Indian economy, education, healthcare, agriculture, politics • 10 Issues For Which The Government Did Not Provide Data In Parliament • In Assam’s Sualkuchi Handloom Cluster, Migrant Weavers Remain Neglected • Jharkhand Family's Tragic Loss Highlights Flaws In Ayushman Bharat Scheme • Climate Change, Competition From Cheaper Tea Imperil Darjeeling Tea Industry • “I am seething with anger”: A decade of stagnation in rural wages • Fifteen Years After Launch, ASHAs’ Struggle With Healthcare Gaps • Jal Jeevan Mission Faces Challenge to Ensure Water Flow • Biodiversity Collapse: What's Foiling India's Conservation Efforts? • Election 2024: What Do Manifestos Of BJP, Congress Say On Key Environmental Issues • Inside The Brewing Healthcare Crisis of Assam’s Tea Garden Labourers • ‘Subsidised Food Canteens Create Democratic Spaces In Deeply Divided Societies’ • How Jammu & Kashmir Is Seeing More Cases of Leishmaniasis • ‘Not All Women’s Health Is About Maternal Health’ • Why One Of India’s Biggest Electoral Bond Donors Is A Touchy Topic In Bhiwandi • The ‘Mad Tree’ That Sustains Banni’s Vada Koli Community • Women At Work: Fear For Women's Safety Restricts Their Mobility--And Their Careers • What India Should Have Learnt From The Pandemic Years • Led by Odisha, India Reduces Malaria Cases By 3 Million • #Election2024: Rural Jobs Programme Remains Underfunded Despite High Demand • Why ‘Deemed Forest’ Tag For Rajasthan’s Orans May Not Save Them • Modi Govt Doubled Spending On Insurance, Not Enough On Health Infrastructure • #DataViz: How India’s Women & Girls Have Fared In The Modi Years • How Guwahati Air Became World’s 2nd Most Polluted • Flagship Scheme Tracker • Large Employers Are Required To Provide Creches, But Most Don't • Migrant Workers Struggle To Be Counted During Elections • Election 2024: Where Do Forest Rights Matter? • DataViz: How Delhi’s Homeless Population Experiences Summers • Why 750 Indians On Bangladesh Border Live On The Other Side Of A Wire Fence • The Women Of Doodhpathri: From Housewives To Sustainable Businesses • ‘Unplanned Urbanisation Has Affected Bengaluru’s Vegetation Cover And Water Bodies’ • Older Indian Women Happier Than The Men, New Report Says • What India Must Do To End TB Conclusively • Bengaluru’s Water Crisis: Key Challenges In Water Management • Jal Jeevan Mission in UP: Few Taps In Banda, Taps But Not Enough Water in Baghpat • 1 Step Forward, Many Steps Back In Uttarakhand’s Uniform Civil Code • Why India, With Plentiful Rains & Rivers, Is On List Of World’s Most Water-Stressed Countries • How MGNREGS Continues To Falter In Bihar • Why Learning Outcomes For Tribal Districts Are Poor • How Did Celebrity MPs Perform In The 17th Lok Sabha? • PM’s Matru Vandana Yojana Budget Stagnates Despite Rise in Beneficiaries • What We've Learned About Women's Work During The Pandemic • Women@Work Page 4 • Jharkhand’s “Just Transition” Remains On Paper As State Opens New Coal Mines, Fails to Shut Old Ones • Nilgiris Reel Under Water Shortage, Climate Change • How Delhi’s Homeless People Struggle During Hot Summers • MSP Guarantee Alone Will Not Improve Farm Incomes • How Skilling Can Bridge The Gap Between Women & Work • Gender, Caste Diversity Inadequate In India’s Justice System: New Report • Delhi’s Jan Suvidha Complex Workers Remain Unpaid, Overworked • How Karnataka Is Delivering Rations To People Aged 90 & Above • In Assam’s Majuli, Climate Crisis Threatens Indigenous Craft Of Boat-Making • ‘We Need Extensive, Systematic Datasets To Counter Narratives Around Caste’ • In Tamil Nadu’s Rice-Bowl, Changing Climate Pushes Farmers To Skip Summer Crop • Community-Driven Initiatives Show Way Forward For Reviving Kashmir's Polluted Lakes • In Assam’s Silchar, A Hospital Models Accessible Cancer Care For The Vulnerable • Why Jharkhand’s Parhaiyas Are Forced To Toil In Brick Kilns • ‘24-Week Limit For Abortion Is Obsolete’ • Low Wages, Rising Unemployment Push Indians To Construction Work In Israel • #Budget2024: How Are Development Programmes Faring? • #Budget2024: What’s In Store For Gender Equality, Women Empowerment? • A Digital AgriStack Could Help Farmers Access Services. Here's Why They Aren't On Board • What Research Reveals About the Impact of Media on Voter Behaviour • Why Children Of Migrant Farm Workers In Gujarat Remain Out Of School • DataViz: How Much Time Do Indian Women Spend On Self-Care? • How Rohingya Refugees Are Impacted By Limited Access To Healthcare • As Truckers Oppose New Law, Every 7th Accident Is A Hit-And-Run • With Just Rs 5,000 In Compensation Fund, Bengal Struggles To Pay Trafficking Survivors • How Increasing Lightning Strikes Imperil J&K’s Pastoralist Communities • 17 Vital Datasets Delayed, As 2023 Comes To A Close • 2023: India’s Weather In 8 Charts • Why Local Initiatives May Be Key To Climate Change Adaptation • In 2023, Lifestyle Diseases, TB & Climate Change Posed Challenges To Indians’ Health • As 2023 Comes To A Close, Govt Must Increase Coverage Of Free Foodgrain • At COP28, Countries Agree To ‘Transition Away’ From Fossil Fuels • Banni Grassland Getting Restored, But Experts Demur • ‘Absence Of Emergency Care Law Is Costing Lives In India’ • Indian Workers In The Gulf File 1 Labour Complaint A Day, On Average • #DataViz: Karnataka’s New Childcare Scheme Aims To Avert ‘Motherhood Penalty’ • More Women Are Working In Odisha’s Farms, But Earn Less Than Men • Indians Will Buy 300 Mn ACs In 20 Years. And They're Choosing Brands & Features Over Energy Efficiency • #DataViz: Prison Occupancy Rose In 2022, Despite Campaign To Release Undertrials • Himalayan Towns Like Darjeeling, Mussoorie & Kathmandu Fast Running Dry • #DataViz: The Gender Gap In Maharashtra’s Construction Sector • In Gujarat, Agriculture In Stress Due To Saltwater Ingress • Why Adding Medical Colleges Isn’t Enough To Improve India’s Healthcare • IndiaSpend’s Tanvi Deshpande Wins 2023 RedInk Award In Environment Category • Pollution Regulators Misinformed, Low On Motivation: Study • ‘Auto Sector Businesses Actively Avoid Reporting Even Serious Accidents, Injuries’ • Teesta Dam Breach: Disregard For Green Norms, Irregularities In Focus • Activists Urge Roping In ASHA Workers And Other Novel Approaches As Domestic Violence Rises During Lockdowns • Chop Trees, Then Compensate For Them - At Whose Cost? • How A New Tiger Reserve In Rajasthan Is Causing Fear Of Displacement • With Single Data Source, India Tends To Underreport Road Crash Deaths • To Know How Many People Have Access To Toilets, Surveyors Must Ask The Right Questions • Punjab Farmers Struggle Amidst Plummeting Groundwater Levels • Why India Is Struggling To Tackle Its Lung Disease Crisis • Delhi's Air Quality Crisis In 5 Charts • Despite Better Immunisation, Diarrhoea Or Pneumonia Kills 1 Child Every 2 Minutes In India • #DataViz: School Performance Grading Reveals Poor Learning Outcomes Across India • Why Women In India Are Less Likely To Find Jobs • Despite Increased Spending, Health Outcomes Remain Poor in Backward States • How MP Govt’s VanMitra Portal Threatens Tribal Rights Over Forest Land • How Andaman Islands Are Losing Green Protection Against Business & Tourism • In Battle Of Rights, SC Pits Mother Against Unborn Child • Why Mumbai Had Poor Air Quality In October • Chhattisgarh Adivasis Rue Loss Of Land • Desire For Change Makes Devi Pujoks Of Bhuj Realign Their Khap Panchayat • IndiaSpend Stories Win Honours At Laadli Media Awards • 47% Of India’s Poorest Children, 30% Of Richest Not Fully Immunised • Climate Change, Erratic Monsoon Hit Kodagu’s Famed Coffee Plantations • ‘A Strong And Effective Technical Apex Body Alone Can Control Statistical Operations’ • Inequality is Bad for Everyone’s Health But Affects The Poor the Most: Study • Why India Must Differentiate Between Normal And High-Risk TB Patients • India’s Methane Emissions Challenge: Addressing The Data Gap In The Oil & Gas Sector • River Reflections: Impermanence, Erosion, Migration On The Brahmaputra • The Unwanted Daughters of Rajasthan: Sex Determination And Female Foeticide • Community-Led Mental Health Interventions Could Make Therapy More Accessible • Manipur’s Children Remain Out Of School 4 Months Into The Conflict • 'Teachers, Not Academics Or Policymakers, Should Lead Education Research' • #TIL: Who Wins If India’s Patent Rules For Drugs Are Amended? • ‘COVID Can Cause Entire Spectrum Of Heart Disease’ • DataViz: Govt’s Skill Development Scheme Placed Only 18% Candidates • In India's Second Poorest State, Govt Efforts To Curb Hunger Are Failing • Why Contraception Is Still ‘Women’s Business’ In India • Parents of Children With Disabilities Struggle To Find Schools For Their Children • India's Rhino Population Up 35 Times In 107 Years • Small Hydro Projects In The Northeast Ignore Environmental Risks, Local Voices • India's Snakebite Deaths Under-Counted, Yet Most In The World • How Seed Banks In Odisha Are Promoting Organic Farming • Why Locals Are Resisting Small Hydro Projects In Darjeeling • Infra, Faculty Shortages Hinder Enrolment, Research At New IITs: Report • Pune District’s Efforts To Reduce Child Malnutrition Bear Fruits • With Disappearing ‘Bhagiyas’, Kutch Risks Losing Local Traditional Knowledge • G20 Summit Agreement Fails To Strengthen Coal Phase-Down Even As Data Show High Per Capita Coal Emissions • Data Gaps: Is India's Highest Suicide Rate Because Of Better Reporting Or Rising Distress? • ‘Brand Names Of Drugs No Assurance Of Quality, Safety’ • Death Toll Mounts As Manipur Conflict Stretches Healthcare To Breaking Point • Climate Hotspot: A Warming Climate Parches An Already Dry Bundelkhand • How Hospital Accreditation Can Help Improve Quality Of Care • India’s Green Hydrogen Transition Will Be A Bumpy Ride • Large Vacancies, Underutilised Budgets In India’s Forensic Science System • “If The Public Library System Needs To Be Effective, It Needs To Reimagine It's Reader" • Forest Law Amendment Will Make It Easier To Divert 28% Of India’s Forest Cover • With 45 Million New, Young Voters, Political Parties Will Need To Talk Jobs, Education • Explained: Why India's 2025 Ethanol Blending Target May Not Be A Good Idea • How A Tribal Community In Odisha Is Battling Climate Change With Traditional Farming • From Cracks To Catastrophe: Pir Panchal's Sinking Houses • Breastfed Right: How Shrirampur’s Babies Escape Malnutrition • Lightning Deaths Increase In India As Compared To 2022 • As Tigers In Assam's Protected Areas Rise, So Does The Potential Of Human-Tiger Conflicts • Climate Hotspot: Wild Boars Return to Kashmir As February and March Become Warmer • In Punjab’s Labour Hubs, Workers Plead For Jobs At 1/3rd Wages • #DataViz: Fewer Women In Bihar, MP, UP, Rajasthan Use Safe Menstrual Hygiene Products Putting Them At Risk • Lower June Rainfall Impacts Kharif Sowing • Why Ration Card Portability Scheme Is Mostly Limited To Delhi • Explained: As Indoor Heat Rises, Can India Turn To Green Roofs? • Tropical Countries Like India To Be Worst-Hit By Water Stress: UN • As Drug-Ridden Punjab Withdraws Ban on Syringes, Could A New Tech Fix Come To Its Aid? • Why India’s Biggest Lithium Discovery Is A Concern For The Local Population • Why India Needs Village-Level Data To Target Malnutrition In Children • Thrown Out Of Land And Home, Farmer Widows Demand Rights, Govt Support • India Must Act Swiftly To Stop This ‘Silent Pandemic’ From Becoming Catastrophic • The Rock Star Chin Refugee In Mizoram • ‘It Is Unlikely We Will See Any More Cheetah Mortalities’: Cheetah Expert Adrian Tordiffe • Nearing Desertification, Marathwada Isn’t Giving Up Water-Guzzling Sugarcane. Here’s Why • Children Work 11-Hour Shifts At Weddings In Bihar, As India Struggles To End Child Labour • Against The Sea: Rising Sea Levels In Ratnagiri Turn Farm Lands Into Mangrove Forests • Amphan: ‘Higher Ocean Surface Temperatures Making Cyclones More Powerful’ • Deaths, ‘Runaways’, Space Crunch: Is India’s Cheetah Project On The Right Track? • Climate Hotspot: In Kutch, More Cyclone Warnings, Heatwaves Upend People’s Lives • India's Invisible Workforce: Women Home-Based Workers Paid Little, Have No Legal Protection • Record Milk Surge In India, But Crisis For Small Dairy Farmers • New Policy Targets Tobacco Industry Interference In Health Ministry • Climate Hotspot: Encroaching Sea, Eroding Coast Leads To Disappearing Villages in Ganjam • 'India Needed $16.5 Billion For Biodiversity Conservation between 2017-2022. All we had was $10 Billion' • 4 Indigenous Species In India That Need Conservation Efforts In 2023 • High Blood Pressure Killed 1.6 Mn Indians In 2016, But Most Are Unaware Of Its Dangers • Internet Shutdowns Cost India $3 Bn From 2012 To 2017 • How India’s Health System Fails Acid Violence Victims • How Families Can Reduce Their Risk Of Heart Disease • Explained: Why India's Public Health Insurance Doesn't Work As Well As It Should • Why There Is A Fight Over The Potatoes Used To Make Lay's Chips • ‘Let The Men Say What They Have To, I Do What I Have To’ • Why Methane Emissions From Landfills Are Concerning • Why There Have Been So Few Women In India's Administrative Services • Atypical Manifestations: ‘COVID Patients Are Coming In With Neuro, Cardiac & Gastro Symptoms’ • Why Tree Transplantation Can't Make Up For Loss Of Green Cover • Karnataka’s Muktha Centres Show How Govt Hospitals Can Support Domestic Violence Survivors • Scare of the Scars: Acid Attacks and Skin Scarring • ‘Police, Politicians Invoke Public Interest, Morality Too Quickly, And Too Often It’s To Hinder Speech’ • Falling Through The Cracks: Children Of Seasonal Migrants • Haryana Portal Helps Track High-Risk Pregnancies For Improved Care • Debt, Distress Sales: How Indians Pay For Healthcare • India’s Home-Grown Innovations Help Farmers Adapt To Climate Change • COVID-19: Insurers Are Denying Policies To Disabled Despite Govt Strictures • Why Migrant Undertrials Struggle To Furnish Bail & Access Timely Legal Aid • Chin Exiles, Local Concerns And The Humble Areca Nut • Atta-Satta: Brides For Barter In Rajasthan • Amended Abortion Law Still Gives Doctors, Not Women, The Final Say • World TB Day: TB Cases Recorded With The Government Yet To Reach Pre-Pandemic Levels • Climate Change Is Making India's Monsoon More Erratic • 'We Have Forgotten Our Water In Every Way Possible' • A Warming World Is Exhausting Its CO2 Budget, Intergovernmental Panel Asks Countries To Act Now • Defenders Of The Forest: How Forest Dwelling-Communities Of Gondia Are Regenerating Forests • In Assam’s Dhemaji, Infrastructure Growth, Erratic Rains Shift Farming Practices • Explained: Why It Took 54 Years For A Malaria Vaccine • Married At 5, Mother At 13 And Widowed By 20: The Struggle Of Child Brides In Rajasthan • River Reflections: Brahmaputra's Scowling Sky And Economy Of Sand • ‘Now This Is Home For Us’: The Myanmar Chin Refugees In Mizoram • DataViz: Adolescent Tobacco Use Declines, But 9% Still Consume In Some Form • Gujarat’s Famous Solar Village Has Left Herders Without A Pasture • ‘Can I have blue eyes?’: An Acid Attack Survivor’s Journey To Regain Vision • UTI Could Affect Millions Of Pregnant Women But Still Remains A Taboo • Data Viz: The Human Cost of India's Extreme Temperatures • How Policies To Reduce Gender Discrimination Can Have The Opposite Effect • The Connection Between Self-Immolation and Domestic Violence • 'India's Measles Outbreak A Consequence Of Covid-19 Health Services Slowdown' • Why Caesarean Deliveries Are Rising In Jammu And Kashmir • 'Inflation In India Is Already Above RBI's Danger Mark Of 6%' • Rajasthan: India Counts Its Livestock, But Not The People Who Herd Them • Why Early Learning In Mother Tongue Is More Effective • Reservations Can Take The Disadvantaged To Parliament, But Not In Key Positions • Reflections From A River: Returning To The Brahmaputra • Indigenous Peoples Oppose Asia's Largest Proposed Coal Mine • Why Mumbai's Women Need More And Better Connected Bus Transport • India Has Mental Health Pensions But They Rarely Reach The Affected • ‘Women Don’t Get Same Opportunities As Men Even After Delaying Marriage, Childbirth’ • As Bihar, Odisha Miss 2022 Renewable Energy Goals, Experts Say States Should Finance A Green Economy • 'No Point In India Growing So Fast If Wages Stagnate And Social Spending Is Slashed' • Improve Women’s Education, Health Services To Reduce India's Anaemia Burden, World's Highest • Children At Risk As Parents Lack Information & Resources, Finds New Survey • The Price Of Stone: Children At Risk Of Silicosis In Rajasthan's Quarries • Budget2023: Infrastructure Spending Grows But At The Expense Of Social Sector Spending • #Budget2023: Rural Jobs Programme Budget Cut by 18% • Bitter Brew: Darjeeling's Tea Garden Workers Are Paid Poorly, Have No Land Rights • Experts Disagree On Chhattisgarh's Cow Dung Scheme As A Push Towards Natural Farming • EarthCheck - India’s Climate Change Data Journalism, Visualization and Verification Workshops • A Year of School After Covid-19: Remedial Classes, Whatsapp And More Involved Parents • "We Have Given Up Hope": Why Residents of Ghatal Are Tired of Frequent Floods • India's Population, Poverty And Consumption Data Missing As 2022 Comes To A Close • In 2023, Global Spotlight On Millets, Traditional To Many Indian Diets • Budget2022: India's New Climate Pledges Await Funding Push • Year In Review: Green Law Dilutions In Year Of Record Extreme Events • Court Orders And Government Decisions: A Look Back At Criminal Justice in 2022 • Explained: Conservationists Think Translocating African Cheetahs To India Is A Bad Idea • 'India Must Develop An Ecosystem-Centric Approach For Agriculture' • Domestic Workers Need To Work In 6 Households To Make Minimum Wage: Study • 'India Needs A Transparent Legal Framework To Protect Refugees' Human Rights' • How Caste Networks Enabled Corruption In India’s Rural Roads Programme • 30% Drop In Punjab Stubble Burning Incidents In 2022: How Reliable Are The Data? • In Nagaland, Despite An Act To Protect Street Vendors, Women Vendors Struggle For Basic Amenities • 'COP Of Implementation Has Fulfilled Expectations Only Partially' • What The COP Of Implementation Failed To Achieve • COP27: Climate Change Loss & Damage Fund Announced But Specifics Only By 2023 COP • Women Run Fewer Than 13% Of India's Small Businesses. Here's Why • COP27: Financing A Just Transition--Lessons For India From South Africa • 5 Changes That Can Help India Reach Its Green Energy Goal Faster • 'The Only Way Out Is To Vaccinate 70-80% Of The Country' • 1 In 2 Indian Diabetics Unaware Of Their Condition: Study • DataViz: As Many Children Die Before Their Fifth Birthday In Uttar Pradesh As In Afghanistan • Infant Deaths Not One Hospital’s Problem. Here’s Why Infants Continue To Die Across India • Explained: What Does An Air Quality Index Of 450 Mean? • 'EWS Reservation Is Very Much A Caste-Based Quota' • COP27: Five Issues On India's Radar • Cancer Treatment Is Free In Govt Hospitals, Yet Poor Patients Drop Out • Exposed At Sea, Fishers Need Better Insurance To Manage Climate Risks • Disconnected: How Digital India Is Leaving Women Behind • Loss And Damage: Could COP27 Discussions Help Those Affected By The Climate Crisis • India, G20 Countries Need To Take Stronger Steps To Fulfil 2030 Climate Promises: UNEP • 'When I Share A Seed, It Reinstates A Dying Culture' • 'Poverty Keeps Us Vulnerable To Diseases Like Polio' • Government Support Critical To Treat TB In Malnourished Patients • Beyond Policies, Companies Need To Improve Culture To Help Retain Women In Workplaces • Extended Producer Responsibility: Why The Rules Do Little To Eliminate Plastic Pollution • Earning 8 Times The Poverty Line But Still Poor: What Official Poverty Statistics Miss • Uttarakhand: Six Months On, Tribals Displaced For Vyasi Dam Still Await Rehabilitation • Explained: Why India's Early Warning Systems For Floods And Cyclones Fall Short • 'India Has Led The Way In Authenticating Medicines, But Must Do More' • How A Labour Helpline Is Helping Informal Workers Recover Wages • Why Thousands Are Fleeing The River Islands Of Bangladesh • Will The New Forest Conservation Rules Change Chhattisgarh's Hasdeo Bachao Andolan? • How Community Committees Are Improving Anganwadis In Thiruvananthapuram • Why An Increase In Women's Workforce Numbers Might Not Be Good News • 'Absence Of Enough Jobs Means India Is Losing Its Demographic Dividend' • Data Gaps: Why India Cannot Afford To Further Delay Its Census • Insufficient Dry Ration Puts UP's Women And Children At Risk Of Malnutrition • Few Vacancies, Delayed Appointments: Why Ex-servicemen Fail To Find Jobs • A Water Pipeline Frees Up Women's Time But Patriarchy Fills It With Other Chores • UP's Shravasti Has Fewer Primary Health Centres Than The Norm • Minding Her Own Business: Women Entrepreneurs in India • India Had Most Pandemic-Related Deaths Of Any Country At 4.7 Million, Says WHO • As Men Fear Getting A Vasectomy, Onus Of Family Planning On Women • Forest Rights Foster Self-Sustaining Villages In Maharashtra's Gondia • Children Separated From Mothers: Rohingyas in India Fear Detention, Deportation • #CORENetConference • Help IndiaSpend report on Gaps in Rural Healthcare in India • World Diabetes Day: 5 Popular Myths Around the Disease Debunked • Game Of Facts • Mind The Gender Gap - Podcast • By 2035, Risk Of Sea-Level Rise In Mumbai, Ahmedabad An Urban Heat Island: Climate Panel Report • Why Delhi's Anganwadi Workers Are Fighting For Higher Pay, Social Security • Poverty, Lack of Safety Lead Families To Marry 2 In 5 Girls In UP's Lalitpur Before They Turn 18 • 3 In 4 Prisoners Are Under Trial, Highest In 25 Years • Why India's Budget Push To Infrastructure Should Consider Climate Resilience • DataViz: This Year, 12 States Reduced Education Funding In Percentage Terms • 5 Deaths In Police/Judicial Custody Every Day Over 10 Years, But Few Convictions • In Third Covid-19 Wave, Mumbai Turned To Trusted Family Doctors • Fact-Checking Workshop • New Anti-Cattle Slaughter Law In Karnataka Causing Loss Of Livelihoods • Why 4 Of 5 Indian Children Do Not Survive Cancer • Families In Financial Crunch As UP's Madrasa Teachers Wait 8 Years For Honorariums • Budget 2022 Increases Education Spending, Samagra Shiksha Scheme Key For School Reopenings • #Dataviz: India Lost 259 Billion Hours Of Labour Annually Because of Global Warming • Donate to IndiaSpend • #DataViz: 'Covid-19 Deaths in India Could Be 6 Times Above Officially Recorded Deaths' • #DataViz: Government Says India's Forests Grew But Better Data Needed To Understand How • India Has 10m Working Children, But Budget 2019 Has Slashed Outlay For Key Rehabilitation Project By 17% • Infographic: Code Red For Humanity • 'India Among 5 Countries With Most Extreme Heat Exposure' • Interview: 'Full-Day Childcare Can Help Women Double Their Incomes' • Even Before Pandemic, Debts Had Soared By 84% In Rural & 42% In Urban India • Infographic: How Bad is India's Coal Crisis? • How Natural Gas Could Thwart -- Or Support -- India's Renewables Progress • Canals Created New Towns But Few Non-Farm Jobs: Study • Infographic: Tree Transplantation: Has It Worked In India? • Global Climate Action: Where Do Indian Banks Stand? • Covid-19: Where Cases Are Rising • Explained: Paris Rulebook And Its Role In Global Climate Action & Politics • 'We Were Caught Unawares By Sudden Monsoon Disease Outbreaks In UP' • 'Covid-19 Could Become Like Measles, Never Gone But Controlled' • Explained: What's Green Hydrogen And Why It's Important For India's Climate Goals • 'India Must Ensure Elders' Security, Sustenance, Access To Health' • Indians Donated 43% More In 2020 Pandemic Year: Survey • Why India Still Has A 12-16 Week Gap Between Covishield Doses • 'To Be Effective, Urban Local Bodies Need Autonomy From State Govts' • Only 11% Of Vulnerable Street Vendors Benefitted From PM Credit Scheme: Survey • Schools Are Reopening. Should Parents Worry About Covid-19 Outbreaks? • New India-US Partnership Could Lead To More Equitable Climate Action • Women Farmers Are Losing Jobs, Earnings, Savings Even As Agriculture 'Booms' • 60% Domestic Workers Were Not Paid In Lockdown, Faced Poverty, Debt, Hunger • 20 Months In, Gaps Persist In India's Official Covid-19 Data • Schools Should Be First To Open, Last To Close Due To Covid-19 • What Schools Must Do To Re-open • Social Discrimination Key Factor In Stunting Among Children: Study • How Women Farmers In Eastern India Are Supporting Families By Cultivating Nutrition Gardens • How A Year of Covid-19 Financially Dented India's Middle Class • A Protest In West Bihar Shows How Unsurveyed Land Leaves Residents Vulnerable • Deficient Monsoon Less Worrying Than Potential Covid-19 Third Wave • Why Caste Data Are Critical For States Pushing For Debatable Affirmative Action • Data Visuals: Vaccination Rate Is Up, But Not Enough To Meet Dec 2021 Target • Workers Seek Timely Payments, More Workdays Under Rural Jobs Scheme • Data Visuals: Remaining Challenges For Renewables In India • Fully Vaccinate Everyone Before Considering Booster Shots • Data visuals: How Renewables Other Than Solar And Wind Have Fared • Without Stricter Checks, Latest Directive To 'Utilise' Fly Ash May Prove Futile • Data visuals: How India Stacks Up Vis-a-Vis Other Countries In Renewables • How Urban Job Guarantee Schemes Can Provide Livelihood, Equal Opportunity To Women • Data Visuals: How Renewable Energy Became Price-Competitive With Conventional Power • Data Visuals: Renewable Energy: How India Is Faring • How Repowering Old Wind Turbines Can Help India Meet Renewables Targets • 1st City-Wide Covid Data Analysis Suggests Massive Undercounting Of India's Cases, Deaths • India's Labour Is Moving Back From Manufacturing To Farms • Education Disrupted: Children Lose Friends, And Learning, As Schools Remain Shut • Explained: Why The Rise In Methane Levels Is Worrying • What India's Renewables Transition Must Ensure For 21 Mn Displaced Workers • IIHS Data visuals: MSMEs As Large Employment Creators • IIHS Data visuals: Construction Absorbs Low-Skilled Casual Labour? • How Limestone Mining Has Pitted Gujarat's Farmers Against Govt • What Kerala's Rising Case Numbers Mean • IIHS Data visuals: More Services Sector Jobs In Cities • IIHS Data visuals: Manufacturing Is Concentrated In A Few Districts • IIHS Data visuals: How Non-Agricultural Workers Are Spread Out Across The Country • No Testing Kits, Covid Centres Shut, Oxygen Miles Away: Rural Healthcare In Covid Times • Where Do Indians Work? • Govt Proposal To 'Regularise' Green Violators Is Legally Untenable, Say Lawyers • Govt Data That Showed Excess Mortality During Pandemic Go Offline • 'Schools Must Reopen For Children's Mental Wellbeing, To Narrow Digital Learning Gap' • Rural Women's Collectives Struggle To Survive Even As They Help Manage Covid Fallout • How Cash-Strapped Power Distributors Are Holding Back Rooftop Solar Power • How Rooftop Solar Struggles Even In India's Most Sunny Cities • TIL: How Effective Are The New COVID-19 Treatments? • Prescription Drugs, Controlled Chemicals Are Fuelling India's Illicit Drug Trade: Reports • Explained: How Surat's Emissions Trading Scheme Works To Reduce Air Pollution • Explained: 68% Of Indians Have Covid-19 Antibodies, But The Pandemic Isn't Over Yet • Surging Fuel Prices Further Dent India's Pandemic-Stressed Economy • Balancing Environment Protection And Post-Pandemic Growth--Challenge For New Minister • Why Kerala's Covid-19 Rise May Not Signal A New Surge • Explained: Why Rising SARS-CoV-2 Reproduction Number Is Raising Concerns • As Pandemic Stretches On, Junior Doctors Demand Better Pay And Work Conditions • As Third Wave Looms, Rural Health Centres Struggle With Expired Drugs, Missing Doctors • Explained: What We Know About COVID Transmission Through Faeces • Why Insurance Alone May Not Improve Women's Access To Healthcare • Explained: Why India Is Protesting EU's 'Carbon Border Tax' • More Than Half Of Districts With High Covid-19 Positivity Are Himalayan • Explained: What Is 'Wet Bulb Temperature' • Why States' School Education Laws Are Difficult To Understand • Covid Lockdowns Leave Migrant Workers Struggling For Healthcare, Vaccination • More Younger People Without Comorbidities Died In Second Wave, Data Show • The Challenge Of Saying How Many Excess Deaths Could Be Due To Covid-19 • 'Universalise Food Distribution So No One Goes Hungry During Pandemic' • Smart City Deadline Looms But Targets Remain Distant • How Relief And Support Systems Failed Migrant Workers Again • How Clean Energy Can Bail Out Indian States With The Biggest Power Debts • How Lower Minimum Wage Terms May Hurt Indian Workers In The Gulf • What India Must Do To Phase Out Single-Use Plastic • Interview: 'Tackle Covid Like Smallpox: Identify Each Case, Isolate, Immunise' • Interview: 'No Evidence That Kids Will Be Worse Hit In Third Wave, Risk Of School Reopening Low' • Denied Visibility In Official Data, Millions Of Transgender Indians Can't Access Benefits, Services • Interview: 'Covid-19 Treatment Guidelines Must Be Constantly Updated, Questioned' • Interview: 'Villagers Concealed They Had Covid-19 For Fear Of Forced Vaccination, Quarantine' • Why India Cannot Delay Vaccinating Pregnant Women Against Covid-19 • Remote Tribal Village Shows How To Fight Vaccine Hesitancy • Interview: 'Can't Say Second Covid-19 Wave Has Ended' • Interview: 'History Shows India Must Be Open To Best Science & Tech To Fight Pandemic' • How Second Wave Is Decimating Rural Economy • What Calls For Adopting 'Covid Orphans' Are Missing • No Savings, Scanty Jobs: Why Second Wave Has Been Harder For Migrant Workers • Interview: 'CoWin Vaccination Certificates Can Increase Mobility For Vaccinated Indians' • Interview: 'The Only Way Out Is To Vaccinate 70-80% Of The Country' • Interview: '97% Of Indians Are Poorer Post-Covid' • Hospitals Need To Be Differently Prepped For Children With Covid: Experts • Meant To Ward Off Coastal Erosion, Geotubes In Andhra, Odisha Lie In Tatters • Why Long Covid Needs Recognition, Special Provisions At Workplace • Why Workplace Support Is A Basic Need For Women With Schizophrenia • Interview: Different Covid Vaccine Doses Are Fine, Might Work Better - Virologist • More Cyclones Batter India's West Coast But States Slow To Build Critical Infrastructure • Interview: 'Black Fungus Spurt As More Patients Worsen, Need Steroids In Second Wave' • Interview: 'Second COVID Wave To Hit Jobs, Economy Harder' • How Health Workers Are Fighting Vaccine Hesitancy In Villages • Patent Waivers For COVID-19 Won't Speed Up Vaccine Supply • Interview: 'To Tackle COVID In Rural India, Enable At-Home Care, Involve Panchayats, NGOs' • COVID Vaccination Is Leading To Fewer Cases, Deaths Among Elderly In Some States • Interview: 'Steroids Only For COVID-19 Patients With Low Oxygen Levels' • When COVID Travel Bans Work, And Don't • 8 Poorest States May Spend 30% Of Health Budgets For COVID-19 Vaccines • Key COVID Indicators Surged From Feb 2021 But Govts Failed To Act • Why India Needs To Vaccinate Undocumented Immigrants, Refugees • Interview: 'We Are Pressured To Prescribe Drugs That Don't Work' • Most Children Getting Mild COVID-19, Even Severe Cases Treatable • Can't Roll Out COVID Vaccine Drive For Young Till May Third Week: States • Negative RT-PCR Tests Blamed On Faulty Sample Collection, Wrong Timing • Register for CORE Net - Learnings for Resilience & Resurgence • Interview: 'COVID-19 RT-PCR tests are 99.5% reliable' • Interview - 'States Which Are Hiding COVID Cases And Deaths Are Disempowering Their People' • As COVID-19 Cases Increased, Oxygen Beds Fell, Data Show • Indian Govt Used Faulty Data To Claim Few Infections Post COVID-19 Vaccination • How Kerala Reports 'Zero' COVID Vaccine Wastage, Tamil Nadu The Highest • Interview: Think You Have COVID? Don't Deny Your Symptoms Or Hoard Remdesivir, But Do See A Doctor & Self-Isolate • As Cases Peaked, 22 States/UTs' COVID Vaccination Rates Fell • India's Looming Electric Vehicle Challenge: Spent Batteries • 'India Must Record Suspected COVID Cases As Well' • India's Citizen Groups, Corporations Step Up To Fight Vaccine Hesitancy • West Bengal Outperformed States That Implemented PM's Health Insurance Scheme, On Key Indicators • India May Not Have Enough Doses To Meet Its COVID Vaccination Targets, Data Show • What Is A Net Zero Emissions Pledge & Does India Benefit From It? • Once A Ray Of Hope, Jobs In India's Manufacturing Sector Are Now A Pipe Dream • 'India Needs Around 10Mn COVID Vaccine Doses Daily, Is Producing Less Than Half' • 'We Are Better Equipped To Deal With COVID's Second Wave' • 'India's COVID-19 Case Fatality Is Not Lower Than Of Other Countries' • Will Payment For Housework Discourage Women From Paid Work? • India's Most 'Backward' District Lags In COVID Vaccinations Too • Women Are 70% Of Workers In Tamil Nadu's Fireworks Factories, But Are Paid Half Men's Wages • Assam, Worst State For Violence Against Women, Gets A Women's Poll Manifesto • No More Than 6% Women MLAs In Kerala’s Assembly In Last 20 Years • 'I Can't Earn More Than Rs 125 A Day No Matter How Hard I Work' • India Hits 7% Of Vaccine Target In 60 Days • How Unreliable Data On Dalit Christians & Muslims Expose Them To Discrimination • Long Wait For Rehabilitation May Push Thousands Back Into Manual Scavenging • Why We Don't Know How Much Land Women Own • As India Ramps Up COVID-19 Vaccinations, Data On Adverse Events Are Missing • 'Herd Immunity A Moving Target As People Start To Mingle More' • India's COVID Vaccination May Derail Other Immunisation Programmes • Registration: IndiaSpend School of Data Journalism • Lack Of Mentoring, Networking Hold Back Women Entrepreneurs • 'Badaun Victims Were Let Down By Every Public Service That Could Have Helped Them' • Maharashtra Shows It's Too Early To Declare COVID-19 'Herd Immunity' • What Child Stunting Numbers Tell Us About North-East Indian States • From Lasting Damage To Resilience: How Riots Affect Children • 'Workplace Sexual Harassment Law Needs Overhaul' • 'Dalit Christians, Muslims Must Not Be Denied Reservation' • India's Ageing Dams Pose A Safety Risk: Study • A Month In, Here's How India Has Fared On COVID Vaccination • How Incomplete Health Data On Adolescents Hamper Policy Design • 'Well-Being Of The Himalayan Region Is Critical For All Of India' • In 12 Years, 11 States Changed Land Ceiling Laws In Favour Of Industry Over Farmers • 'Even Once Vaccinated Against COVID-19, Don't Let Your Guard Down' • What Kerala's COVID-19 'Failure' Can Tell Us About India's 'Success' • Post-Kathua Law Sees Increased Reporting of Child Sexual Abuse In Kashmir • 'We Should Build A Political Demand For High Quality Healthcare For All' • Decoding India's First COVID-19 Gender Budget • Budget Acknowledges Migrant Distress But Falls Short In Key Areas • Budget 2021 Not Enough To Boost Employment: Experts • Despite Pandemic, Health Budget Sees Little Real Increase • Budget 2021-22 Explainer: What India's Key Environmental Programmes Get, And How They Spend It • Budget 2021-22 Explainer: Promise Of Tap Water To All Rural Homes Will Need More Funds • Budget 2021-22 Explainer: Healthcare After The Pandemic • Budget 2021-22 Explainer: What India's Gender Budgets Have Achieved • India's Poor Are Eating Into Their Savings, Thanks To High Inflation & COVID-19 • India's Biggest Spenders Cause 7 Times More Emissions Than The Poor • Pandemic Effect: 9 Months On, More Younger Workers Remain Jobless • From Delhi, A View Of Women's Work Hit By The Pandemic • Why Some States Are Struggling With TB-COVID Dual Load • Gig Jobs Give Women Higher Incomes But Little Security • More Indians Got COVID In 2020 Than Any Other Infectious Disease In Previous Years • India's COVID-19 Vaccine Trial Participants Claim They Were Misled • Millions Of Indians Seek Better Lives Abroad, But India Treats Immigrants Poorly, New Study Shows • Healthcare: 5 Non-COVID Areas To Focus On In 2021 • Will New Labour Laws Drive Job Creation In 2021? • What Made News Other Than COVID In 2020 • In A Year Of Extreme Events, Govt Pushed Coal, Diluted Green Laws • How Agriculture Grew Despite COVID Crisis • Himachal Dam Evacuees Wait 50 Years For Rehabilitation • India's Path To 10 Mn COVID-19 Cases • India May Be Reversing Decades Of Progress On Child Nutrition, New Govt Data Show • Why Vaccines Won’t Immediately Take Us Back To Pre-COVID Lifestyles • COVID Shows Health Systems Can’t Handle Climate Crisis • Why Farmers Are Worried About New Laws; It’s The History • Why India Can’t Match China’s Net-Zero Emissions Pledge • Rajasthan’s Migrant Workers Adapt In Changing Job Market • How Reservation In Private Schools Isn’t Working For Poor Children • Bihar’s Women Win Against Alcohol But Lose To Illicit Liquor, Drugs • Air Pollution Killed A Newborn Every 5 Minutes In 2019 • How Much Brinjal Does India Really Need? • Charged In Lockdown Riot Cases, Migrant Workers Afraid To Return To Gujarat • Living With Imprisoned Mothers, Children Struggle For Normal Childhood • In Times Of Job Loss And Insecurity, Malegaon Emerges A Successful Outlier • India Wants Manufacturers To Manage Plastic Waste. Here’s How Proposed Rules Fall Short • 14 Years On, No State/UT Has Fully Implemented SC-Mandated Police Reforms • Over 80% Parents In 5 States Say Digital Schooling Failed During Lockdown: Study • Lockdown Pushed 3 In 4 Dalit, Nomadic Tribe Hamlets Deeper In Debt: Survey • India’s Patchy Mental Healthcare System Is Failing To Deliver During The Pandemic • COVID-19: ‘Indian Exceptionalism’ May Not Explain Low Mortality • ‘Without Legal Mandate, Funding & Coordination, India Cities’ Clean Air Plans Won’t Work’ • Environment Undone Series • Why Hundreds Die Of Lightning Strikes Despite New Technology, Programmes • Why India Must Raise Its Health Budget To Tackle Impending Climate Disasters • At COVID Frontlines: ‘Few Sanitation Workers Getting Training, Info On Health Checkups’ • As Goa Reopens For Tourism, State Struggles To Control A Third Wave Of COVID-19 • How India Got To 1 Million COVID-19 Cases In 6 Charts • As Lockdown Squeezes Grey Market, Families Struggle To Import Life-Saving Drugs • Corona Coverage • Study On COVID-19 Testing Data Calls For Random Testing, Improved Data Quality • Pipe Dreams: Why Interlinking Ken-Betwa Will Not Solve Bundelkhand’s Water Crisis • Why Audits, Reconciled Death Data Are Still Missing COVID Deaths • As Karwar’s Port Expansion Threatens Jobs & Fisheries, Fisherfolk Question ‘Development’ • PPE Priced High In Private Hospitals, While Public Hospitals Face Shortage • As India Fights COVID, 50% Households Share A Water Source, 41% Share Toilets • Malnutrition Could Cost Children’s Health & Lives For Years After COVID Crisis, Experts Warn • Environment Vs Economy: An Approach That Exposes India To COVID-19-Like Infections • This Coal Plant Endangers Forests, Wildlife, People. And India Doesn’t Even Need It, Experts Say • PM CARES Received At Least $1.27 Bn In Donations–Enough To Fund Over 21.5 Mn COVID-19 Tests • India’s total COVID-19 case count has crossed 100,000 • Coronavirus Monitor • With Low COVID-19 Numbers, Northeastern States Not Doing Enough To Test, Prepare • Changed Tastes May Hurt Craftspersons Long Past Lockdown • Lockdown: Delayed Spring Migration Will Cost J&K’s Nomadic Pastoral Tribes • COVID-19: Displaced & Out Of Work, Artistes Of Kathputli Colony Struggle For Two Meals • India may begin pooled testing of COVID19 samples • In Punjab Villages, COVID-19 Is Dissolving Some Caste Divides Among Sikhs • COVID-19: Intra-State Migrants Marooned Too • For Days, Samples Tested Were More Than People Tested By Exactly 890 • Bihar’s Migrants Return To Face Stigma, Under-Prepared Medical Facilities • How Kerala’s Immigration Hotspot Reined In COVID-19 Spread • 1 In 50 COVID-19 Tests In India Are Coming Out Positive, Compared With 1 In 4 In Italy, 1 In 10 In The UK • How Kerala’s Frontline Staff Are Battling It Out • States That Are Testing More Are Detecting More Cases, Data Show • In India’s Suicide Country, Catching Mental Illness Before It Is Too Late • By Creating Green Jobs, Indian Towns Can Save The Environment And Their Economies • In Jharkhand, Poor Healthcare Drives ‘Witch-hunting’, Killings • As Millions Try To Prove Citizenship In Assam, One Man’s Story Reveals Perils of Proof • 2019: A Year Of Record Extreme Events • Govt’s Toilet Building Spree Could Increase Manual Scavenging: Report • How A Rajasthan Village Halted Desertification, One Common Land At A Time • In Bihar Schools, Student-Gardeners Improve Nutrition, Health Metrics • In India’s Second Poorest State, Govt Efforts To Curb Hunger Are Failing • COVID-19: As Govt Denies Community Transmission, Experts Say Too Few Tested To Know • How A Kerala District Is Helping Migrant Children Stay In School • Subscribe
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