By Abhishek Waghmare Foreign funding for Indian non-governmental organisations (NGOs) doubled in 2014-15 over the previous year, but with 10,000 NGO registrations cancelled in 2015, foreign contributions are likely to drop, according the latest data…
By Sanjeev Srivastava Two of the biggest stars of Indian News TV — Barkha Dutt and Arnab Goswami — are now fighting in full public glare. The gloves are off. And how! That this would…
By IndiaSpend Team India was short of more than half a million police officers on January 1, 2015, the last date for which nationwide data is available, the Lok Sabha was told on July 26,…
By Prachi Salve While more young women are enrolled in higher education than ever before — and apparently more successful in clearing 10th-standard board exams than young men — they are either marrying early or…
Paris, July 27 (IANS) French President Francois Hollande on Tuesday reiterated calls for the nation’s unity to win a long battle against terrorism in a brief televised address after two men claiming allegiance to the…
By Deepa Padmanaban Bandipur National Park (Karnataka): For someone whose cow — valued at Rs 20,000 ($300) — was killed by a tiger in August 2015, Mahadeva Gowda is calm, as is Shiva Murthy, whose…
New Delhi, July 26 (IANS) Union Water Resources Minister Uma Bharti on Tuesday said the state of Odisha is very close to her heart and asserted that the central government will not do anything or…
By Amit Kapoor Carrying out innovations is the only function which is fundamental in history: J.A. Schumpeter Innovation is a fascinating topic which can be looked from a variety of perspectives. These include, but are…
By Prachi Salve Nearly eight in 10 Indian babies are now delivered in hospitals but 343 healthcare institutions across six states often lacked basic hygiene, toilets, clean water and waste disposal, according to a new…
By Vikas Datta Title: Criminal – The Truth About Why People Do Bad Things; Author: Tom Gash; Publisher: Allen Lane/Penguin; Pages: 349; Price: Rs.899 ‘Crime doesn’t pay’ is something almost everyone is taught around the…
By Vikas Datta English speakers have long had an advantage for there are few classics from other literary traditions which are not available in the language. Translations of Homer, Rumi, Cervantes, Goethe, Pushkin, Dumas, Tolstoy,…
By Ruwa Shah New Delhi, July 23 (IANS) It has been exactly a week since I landed back to peace — after my return from the burning paradise, Kashmir. From on board the plane, I…
By Nikhil M. Babu As violent protests continue in the Prime Ministers home state of Gujarat over the flogging of Dalit youth by upper-caste Hindu vigilantes, an IndiaSpend analysis reveals a conviction rate six times…
By Amulya Ganguli The decades-old reputation of the Jana Sangh and its successor, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), as a Brahmin-Bania party has been reinforced by a series of recent events. First, its ministers –…
By Saeed Naqvi What is the link between Brexit and the failed coup in Turkey? They ring alarm bells for NATO in the time of Trump, Sanders, Corbyn, Pablo Iglesias, Marine Le Pen and gathering…
New Delhi, July 21 (IANS) The major cause of the uprising in Kashmir is the resentment among Kashmiri youth who have come under India’s security apparatus that acts against civilians with impunity, The New York…
New Delhi, July 21 (IANS) The major cause of the uprising in Kashmir is the resentment among Kashmiri youth who have come under India’s security apparatus that acts against civilians with impunity, The New York…
By Charu Bahri Over the decade ending 2010, the enrolment rate of other backward classes (OBCs) — a loose definition of lower castes, a level above scheduled castes and tribes — in higher education had…
By Sanjeev Srivastava The monsoon session of parliament was being projected as a triumphant one for the BJP with those opposing the GST Bill falling in line. Its passage was being seen more as a…
By Charu Bahri As many as 26 per cent male and 35 per cent female students from Indias most disadvantaged castes and tribes in 245 engineering colleges would not be there without reservations, according to…