New Delhi, Aug 15 (IANS/IndiaSpend) A fact check on claims made by Prime Minister Narendra Modi during his Independence Day speech from the Red Fort: Claim: Linked 700 million to Aadhar and direct benefits Fact:…
Prime Minister Narendra Modi. (File Photo: IANS) By Devanik Saha Speeding up financial inclusion, toilets in every school, reducing LPG subsidy and electrification of villages were some of the key promises made by Modi during…
By Amulya Ganguli The Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) has given its guarded approval to Narendra Modi’s criticism of the cow vigilantes. Notwithstanding the caveat that Modi should not have said that 80 per cent of…
New Delhi, Aug 12 (IANS/IndiaSpend) The government promised parliament it would open 3,000 medical stores for the poor in the next eight months, but no more than a tenth of that number have opened over…
Manisha Chachra Four years after the December 16, 2012, gang-rape of a physiotherapy student that India knows as Nirbhaya, the administrative overhaul promised is fading, according to our investigation of the reform process that was…
Dear politicians, I hope you will read this before you huddle on Friday to discuss the deadly situation in the Kashmir Valley. I am writing to you as a Kashmiri, not a Kashmir expert. Every…
By Charlie Moloney Harvest and post-harvest loss of India’s major agricultural produce is estimated at Rs 92,651 crore ($13 billion), according to data published by the ministry of food processing industries. The loss is almost…
By Manmeet Singh and Saptak Ghosh The World Trade Organisation (WTO) recently ruled against India’s Domestic Content Requirement (DCR) for setting up solar power plants. Yet, there are ways to meet DCR in a way…
By Manmeet Singh and Saptak Ghosh The World Trade Organisation (WTO) recently ruled against India’s Domestic Content Requirement (DCR) for setting up solar power plants. Yet, there are ways to meet DCR in a way…
By Manmeet Singh and Saptak Ghosh The World Trade Organisation (WTO) recently ruled against India’s Domestic Content Requirement (DCR) for setting up solar power plants. Yet, there are ways to meet DCR in a way…
By M.R. Narayan Swamy It is a remarkable commentary on the state of the nation that the Delhi High Court’s debatable decision giving the Lt Governor the primary say in the affairs of the Indian…
By Shreya Shah Fertility rates in India are more closely related to education levels and the socio-economic development within a state, than to religious beliefs, according to an IndiaSpend analysis of government data and research…
By Amit Kapoor The fable of the hare being defeated by the tortoise sounds familiar and is near universal. It is also the title of the recent book by T.N. Ninan, who uses it in…
By Nikhil M. Babu It should have taken 30 days for Sanjaya Kumar (27) from Odisha to withdraw his father’s provident fund of Rs 40,000, the post-employment, rainy day retirement stash that companies must compulsorily…
By Sumit Chaturvedi A fifth of female sex workers live with violence, attacked four times a month, on average, according to an analysis of data on 109,366 such workers, gathered over six months to September…
By Vikas Datta It has been over a week since the “last” Harry Potter story came, with the “Boy Who Lived” now an overworked, middle-aged father who can’t seem to get on with his younger,…
New Delhi, Aug 7 (IANS/IndiaSpend) As many as 24 monuments under the charge of the Archaeological Survey of India (ASI)– the government agency responsible for national heritage — are “missing”, half from Uttar Pradesh, according…
By Charu Bahri In the 1960s, the average annual per capita consumption of sorghum and millets was 32.9 kg, roughly eight times the 4.2 kg an urban Indian consumed in 2010. So-called “inferior” sorghum (jawar)…
By Amulya Ganguli It is sad to see a promising politician stumble and be in danger of falling flat on his face. Till the Janata Dal United’s setback in Bihar in the last parliamentary polls,…
By Chaitanya Mallapur Forty-one military aircraft — including trainers and helicopters — have crashed between April 1, 2012 and July 2016, killing 65 defence personnel and civilians Thirty-six defence personnel were killed in 39 crashes,…