Noida: India’s maternal mortality ratio (MMR, or the number of maternal deaths for every 100,000 live births) fell from 130 to 88 between 2014-16 and 2021-23, according to the special bulletin on ...

Bengaluru: Dowry-related crimes in India are routinely underreported and undercounted, an IndiaSpend analysis of government data and various studies shows. This reflects in official data as well.

The country has reached its goal of having 50% of its electricity capacity come from non-fossil fuel sources five years early ...

In 2024-25, for every 10 teachers in India, nearly four were in private schools. Over the last four years, the total number of teachers increased by 4.4%. Government schools added 4.5% to 5.15 million ...

Unclear guidelines and mismatches in assigning functions and revenue powers have increased panchayats’ dependence on Union and state grants ...

The first of its kind report titled Budgets for Justice, it analysed budgets of the 11 states with the highest gross domestic product (or GSDP) with a population of at least 10 million--Andhra Pradesh ...

When you think of a state in Northeast India, does an image of a dense forest come to mind? The states of this pristine region have more than 75% of their geographical area under forest cover (barring ...

New Delhi: The Union Budget presented by Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman today comes at a time when India faces the challenge of balancing economic growth with inclusive social development. While ...

Mumbai: Road accidents in India fell 6% in a decade to 2022, but a higher percentage of these were fatal crashes--up from a quarter of all accidents in 2012 to a third in 2022. As a result, deaths ...

Many urban local bodies (ULBs) in India collect residential and commercial waste door-to-door, and transfer it directly to Material Recovery Facilities, a solution to the problem of ever-mounting ...

Mumbai: With its size, population and aggravating air pollution, India needs 1,600 to 4,000 air quality monitors but has only 804 as of September 16, 2021, most of which are concentrated in urban ...

Noida and New Delhi: The average score of a grade X 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 ...