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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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Why your groceries cost 9% more this July

A rise in prices of potato, onion and tomato led to a 9 percent increase in grocery bills for a family of four compared to the previous month, according to our analysis of government price data. Prices of meat and dairy products like curd and paneer were not included in…

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94% working Indian women without workplace maternity benefits

India has amongst the most progressive laws on maternity benefits. But a large majority of India’s workforce is engaged in informal work. Further, the law exempts small firms from having to provide these benefits. As a result, 93.5 percent of women workers in the country cannot access maternity benefits, our…

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Gender budget gets 19% more, but health, nutrition remain underfunded

This year, the Union government allocated Rs 3.27 lakh crore or 6.8 percent of total expenditure under the gender budget, which includes schemes for the welfare of women. This represents a 19 percent increase compared to the revised estimate for 2023-24 and is also 5 percent higher than the interim budget for…

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How can India future-proof wheat?

The year 2022 saw the hottest March in India since observed record-keeping started in 1901, with temperatures exceeding the normal by 4-6°C in many parts.

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Why Gujarat’s use of tech to verify forest rights claims is concerning

In January this year Darangi Bhera Sarubhai, a resident of Khedasan village in Gujarat’s Sabarkantha district, received a notice informing him that his Individual Forest Rights (IFR) claim had been rejected.

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How India’s climate plans are falling short

Even as general elections in India continued through the months of April to June, heat wave to severe heat wave conditions prevailed in northern and western India and in parts of eastern India. Many of these areas started experiencing heat waves around May 18.

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India’s gig workers remain undocumented, unprotected

Savita* was shocked to discover that her Urban Company ID had been blocked in February 2023 because she did not meet the monthly target of 40 clients. “My mother-in-law passed away and I took a break of one month from work. I was left without any means of income,” the…

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66% women electors voted in this election. How did the gender gap in voting close?

Jyoti Devi, in her thirties, is one of 471,541,888 women voters in the country. Standing outside her house in a village on the outskirts of Agra city, she is amused to hear that people are suddenly interested in her political view. “Since this election, people want to talk to us…

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Women exiting workforce, farmer arrests: 10 issues for which Modi govt had no data in parliament

IndiaSpend looked at 35 parliamentary questions on health, education, labour, environment, agriculture, finance, gender and law and justice, between 2015 and 2023, for which the government responded that they had no data. The most common reason, in 17 of the 35 questions, for not providing data was “no such data…

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‘I am seething with anger’: A decade of stagnation in rural wages

Vir Singh, who is about 55 years old, was born in the agricultural village of Nunera in Haryana’s Gurugram district, where he has lived and worked as a daily wage worker all his life.

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Loss of tribal rights, homes: The hidden cost of India’s tribal reserves

India’s tiger population has increased in the last five decades, but this has come at the cost of people losing their traditional homes, IndiaSpend found through various data sources, and from visits to tiger reserves in Tamil Nadu and Maharashtra.

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Why one of India’s biggest electoral bond donors is a touchy topic in Bhiwandi

It is just another summer day in the dimly lit, sweltering powerloom unit belonging to 52-year-old Prabhakar Aluwala in Bhiwandi. Two labourers wearing vests move swiftly from one loom to the next to make the necessary turns to keep the yarn spinning without getting disturbed and ruining the design. They…

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10 years of Modi: 3 out of 5 girls not in high school, only 37% women in labour force

“We cannot achieve success if 50 percent of our population being women are locked at home,” Prime Minister Narendra Modi is quoted as saying in this press release from March 2023. Women-led development was one of the themes in last year’s G20 summit, which India had presided over.

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