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Mental health-linked suicides on the rise in India

Between 2018 and 2022, suicides in India linked to mental health rose by 44 percent, according to National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB) data. Three in five such suicides were reported among the 18-45 age group. The NCRB classifies suicides linked to mental health under ‘insanity’ or ‘mental illness’.

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India has 564 inmates on death row, highest in over two decades

Following the uproar and the widespread protests after the August 2024 rape and murder of a medical professional in Kolkata’s RG Kar hospital, there were demands for death penalty for the accused. The state government passed the Aparajita Woman and Child [West Bengal Criminal Laws Amendment] Bill 2024 [awaiting presidential…

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India’s 11 richest states allocate only 4% of budget for police, judiciary, prisons and legal aid

India’s 11 richest states allocated Rs 1.97 lakh crore in 2024-25 for the functioning of their justice systems – including the police, judiciary, prison and legal aid – which was 36 percent more than the spending in 2022-23, according to a new report by India Justice Report, a collective that…

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Newslaundry’s Prateek Goyal shortlisted for Vishwa Nath-Delhi Press Award for Fearless Journalism

Newslaundry reporter Prateek Goyal is among the five journalists shortlisted for the Vishwa Nath-Delhi Press Award for Fearless Journalism for 2024. The award will be presented at a ceremony on March 21 in Delhi, where Justice S Muralidhar will deliver the BG Verghese memorial lecture.

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High pendency in fast-track special courts set up for child sexual abuse cases

In 2022, as many as 239,188 cases out of 268,038 cases filed under the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Act, 2012 (POCSO, 2012), were awaiting trial, a pendency rate of 89.2 percent, according to data from the National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB).

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Keeping Rohingya children out of schools is a denial of basic rights

As India grapples with the Donald Trump government’s crackdown on illegal immigration, the Supreme Court is hearing a writ petition to grant a stay on a December 2024 circular from the Delhi government refusing admission to Rohingya children who the government categorises as ‘illegal migrants’.

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From cyclones to heatwaves, how the climate crisis is tripping India’s power sector

Raghunadh was 15 when Cyclone Hudhud struck the coastline near his home at Bheemunipatnam, around 30 km from Visakhapatnam in coastal Andhra Pradesh on October 12, 2014.

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50% more women in higher education in India, but fewer choose engineering, IT

Despite steady growth in women's enrollment in higher education in India, a disparity persists between engineering and technology-related courses and other disciplines.

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Low wages, payment delays: Merely increasing MGNREGS work days is not enough

The Bharatiya Janata Party-led National Democratic Alliance government will present the second full budget of its third successive term in office, amidst concerns of a slowdown of the economy based on government estimates.

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‘Scam to make contractors rich’: Maharashtra villages struggle to get water under JJM

It was the first day of Diwali, and Rupali Hukire (name changed), a 42-year-old beautician, hurriedly cleaned big buckets and steel pots. She draws water from her neighbour's borewell at a cost of Rs 100 for 30 minutes of pumping. Though her home, in Khandavi village in the Barshi tehsil…

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More than a quarter of India’s forest cover is fire-prone, 9 out of 10 forest fires caused by humans

Bhagetu, a tiny village in Hamirpur district, Himachal Pradesh, saw one death during the summer of 2024, the season when forests in India are most vulnerable to fires. A 75-year-old woman was caught in a blaze while tending to her fields. The district as a whole reported 239 outbreaks of…

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Let Me Explain: What’s behind the Modi government’s data blackout?

Data is essential for effective governance – it helps make informed decisions, tracks progress, and holds authorities accountable. But what happens when the government stops sharing data? From census delays since 2011 to missing statistics on crime, education, health, and more, an IndiaSpend investigation reveals that at least 16 critical…

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‘A precarious perch’: In India, too many escape poverty only to slip right back into it

The forecast was cloudy skies with the possibility of light rain or thunderstorms. But on the morning of India's 77th independence day, on August 15, 2023, things moved as planned in New Delhi.

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In India, less than half of undertrial prisoners identified for release are actually released

India’s prison overcrowding is a persistent problem. While there have been multiple Supreme Court orders to ensure prisoners are released on bail without onerous conditions, and the government has recently launched a scheme to support bail for poor prisoners, there are still around half a million incarcerated people.

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Taxation without representation? How declining population can impact southern states

On November 18, Andhra Pradesh scrapped existing prohibitions on candidates with large families contesting municipal and panchayat elections. Elsewhere, Tamil Nadu Chief Minister MK Stalin wrote and spoke about southern states potentially losing out on tax revenues and political representation.

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Why elephant conflicts are on the rise in Jharkhand

The death of Samal Murmu didn’t come as a shock to many in Rasunia, a nondescript village in Jharkhand’s Saraikela-Kharsawan district. The 36-year-old farm labourer was killed in an elephant encounter when he went to relieve himself in the fields on the outskirts of the village, early in the morning…

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Textile waste a growing environmental concern

The last quarter of each year is chock-full of festivals--which, traditionally, is when Indians shop for new clothes, spurred on by myriad sales and big discounts.

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2,100 cases in Lucknow just this year: Why are dengue cases rising in Uttar Pradesh?

Transmission windows of dengue, a mosquito-borne viral illness, have been expanding due to changing climate, and the number of cases has been increasing, an IndiaSpend analysis of prevalence data in Uttar Pradesh, particularly its capital Lucknow, has shown.

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India’s need to step up solar, wind capacity addition

Another year and another climate conference is upon us, this one in Azerbaijan. It will start off on a positive note for India which recently hit the 200 GW mark in its non-fossil fuels installed capacity, or how much power it can produce from energy sources such as solar and wind. But…

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How Goa is fighting TB among high-risk groups

Fifty-four-year old Suresh has been drinking alcohol since he was nine. He ran away from his house in Bengaluru and landed in Goa. He has been working in a bar ever since.

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Climate crisis in the Sundarbans makes women vulnerable to trafficking

Kanti was 14 when cyclone Amphan damaged her house in the Sunderbans, the world’s largest mangrove forest, in West Bengal. Hungry, she was roaming outside her home, expecting food from a nonprofit, when a man with a bag on his back approached her and offered her food and clothes. “I went along. Hardly…

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How a Rohingya rape survivor’s abortion became legally complicated

Two weeks ago, Sadia*, a 19-year-old Rohingya asylum seeker in India, was finally able to terminate her pregnancy that resulted from a reported rape that happened in Tripura in June. It cost her 10,000 Bangladeshi Taka (Rs 7,000) to abort in a private hospital in Bangladesh.

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India’s teaching training landscape needs urgent reform. Here’s why

The average score of a grade 10 student in mathematics was 220 out of 500 in the National Achievement Survey 2021. In science, the average student scored 206 out of 500, and 277 in English, as per the survey.

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‘What will we eat? Who will buy it?’: India’s millet boom is not helping India’s farmers

In Peeliya village, around two km off the main road in Bassi tehsil of Jaipur district, lies a 27-bigha (about 17-acre) farmland – roughly the size of Bengaluru’s Chinnaswamy cricket stadium. The owner Kajodmal Sharma guides me through a mud-soaked trail, now slick and treacherous after a day of heavy…

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How Baghpat’s trafficked brides suffer rape, abuse

“It was a happy marriage for the initial few weeks, but eventually it turned into a nightmare,” says Shamita*. “I was waiting for my husband to return from work, when his elder brother entered my room and closed the door. He raped me,” says the 29-year-old who lives in Baghpat…

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