In Indias district courts, a crisis is revealed
By Shobhit Mathur and Nomesh Bolia As of today, there are more than 20 million cases pending in the Indian district courts; two-thirds are criminal cases and one in 10 have been pending for more…
Opinion
Convincing victory or fractured mandate in Kerala?
By Amitava Mukherjee In political circles as well as among many general voters of Kerala the result of last year’s Aruvikkara assembly byelection has now become a point of discussion. O. Rajagopal, a front ranking…
South Asian integration: More actionable steps needed
By Amit Kapoor One of the positives of the present dispensation in Delhi is described as its pursuit of an active foreign policy. Some also describe this as all too proactive. However, for all the…
Spirited Investigations: The Stories of the Occult Detectives
By Vikas Datta Remember “Ghostbusters”? The 1984 film about three parapsychologists taking on supernatural phenomenon in New York sparked off a whole universe of spin-offs across various media – a reboot version comes out in…
Dividing Maharashtra: Vidarbha=Serbia, Konkan=Cuba
IndiaSpend Team The gross district domestic product (GDDP) of the five districts that form Amravati region (Rs.51,947 crore), a part of backward Vidarbha, was Maharashtras lowest in 2013-14; yet it was more than Jammu and…
Australian super funds still shy of buying Jaitley’s India story
By Rekha Bhattacharjee Sydney, April 2 (IANS) As the Australian visit of India’s Finance Minister Arun Jaitley enters its concluding phase, a section of the media here is already lamenting the tepid reception given to…
Backtracking RSS leaves BJP high and dry
By Amulya Ganguli The beauty of an open society is that its air of freedom has a calming effect on fundamentalists. They soon realise that their chest-thumping display of seemingly potent sentiments not only fails…
Sponsors of Brussels killers suffer crushing defeat: Why is West silent?
By Saeed Naqvi The West, with the US always in the vanguard, is wailing and screaming its heart out against the ISIS for the terrible things it has done in Paris and Brussels, but is…
Pollution in AC transit-corridor buses 25 percent lower than in AC cars
By Devanik Saha Commuters in air-conditioned buses experience an average 25 percent drop in levels of fine, toxic particlescalled PM2.5than their counterparts in AC cars and a 76 percent drop compared to non-AC modes of…
I will keep mixing up my roles: Kareena Kapoor Khan
New Delhi: Actress Kareena Kapoor during a press conference to promote their upcoming film ‘Ki and Ka’ in New Delhi, on March 28, 2016. (Photo: IANS) Mumbai, March 31 (IANS) Actress Kareena Kapoor Khan, who…
Doubling farmers’ income by 2022 will prove Herculean
By Abhishek Waghmare After adjusting for rising costs, an Indian farmers income effectively rose 5 percent per year over the decade (2003-2013), according to an IndiaSpend analysis of various government data. This calls into question…
Big B grateful to fans for wishes on National Award win
Mumbai, March 29 (IANS) Megastar Amitabh Bachchan thanked his fans for congratulating him for yet another National Award win for his work in Piku. The 73-year-old was named Best Actor for his role in the…
Indian cities are being shorn of trees
By Deepa Padmanaban Findings of a new Indian Institute of Science study that used satellite-borne sensors, compared images over decades and modeled past and future growth reveal the rate of urbanisation in four Indian cities….
Hate speech accused three times more successful in elections
By Manoj K. Candidates with hate speech cases against them were three times more successful in elections compared to those without a criminal record, according to an IndiaSpend analysis of self-disclosed crime records of candidates…
Your allies in the war against cancer
By Amar Chandel Despite major advancements in methods of treatment, cancer continues to be the most dreaded disease in the world, with its very name evoking the image of impending disaster. Ironically, even the chemo…
Writing poetry for the common people – and film superstars
By Vikas Datta One problem a layman has with appreciating Urdu poetry is that their vocabulary may not encompass its ornate richness drawn from a variety of languages. Many gems are thus fated to remain…
Donald Trump and BJP hawks: Birds of a feather?
(Photo: IANS) By Amulya Ganguli The similarities between the views of Donald Trump, the Republican Party hopeful in the US presidential campaign, and the BJP hawks in India are too obvious to be ignored. Like…
Madrid Mayors soothing slogan against post Brussels rightwing hysteria
By Saeed Naqvi If terrorize and polarize is the name of the game, the message from the Brussels terror attack has been transmitted to Madrid with lightning speed. Flares reached the sky opposite the Spanish…
Why India shouldn’t worry about Nepal’s ‘China card’
By Anil Giri Kathmandu, March 25 (IANS) With the signing of the Transit and Transportation Agreement between Nepal and China in Beijing, there is a sense of anxiety, worry and concern in Indian strategic circles…
Communicable diseases rise 32 perccent in 5 years, spending up 7 percent
By Prachi Salve Spending on programmes to control Indias three main communicable diseases malaria, tuberculosis and leprosy increased seven percent over five years while cases reported, taken together, increased 32 percent, according to…