Thursday, 02 May, 2024
Like everything else, Indian society too is going through an unsettling phase of deep and fundamental changes. Age-old mores & norms are being replaced by new ones that are yet to consolidate. We will track all these changes.
The study finds that a sizable 63% of the respondents think that topics that directly affect their group receive too ...
The preliminary total advance tax revenues for the fiscal year 2023–24 were Rs 9,11,534 crore on ...
Under the guise of card blocking, card limit increase, KYC updating, PAN card linking, card replacement, and reward points, fraudsters ...
An internationally accepted measure of poverty that takes into account more than just financial factors is the Multidimensional Poverty Index ...
Of the 542 seats in the Lok Sabha, 78 are held by women, which is around 15 per cent. Whereas ...
In December 2022, the Social Justice Ministry reported that 48 individuals had perished in 2022 because of dangerous sewer cleaning ...
The discovery of clovibactin among this hidden microbial variety serves as an example of the possibilities of researching the uncultivable.
According to recent figures, there was a 15.3 percent increase in crime against women in 2021 compared to the previous year
The Swachh Bharat Mission Gramin has received a total of INR 83,938 crore from the Central Government between 2014 ...
One of the important steps taken by the government towards protection of senior citizens was the introduction of the Maintenance ...
According to the National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB), a total of 29,272 cases of murder were registered in the ...
According to the Mumbai Police crime report, around 170 cases of part-time job fraud also called as ‘task ...
The Supreme Court said that “The judges are apolitical and not concerned with Party A or Party B and ...
The United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime classifies 120 percent overcrowding as ‘critical’ and 150 percent as ...
As technology develops, cybercriminals adopt new strategies to prey on individuals and real money. Identity theft, phishing scams, credit card ...
According to the National Family Health Survey-5, in 2019–21, 49.9 percent of households did not regularly ...
A total of 26,110 cases were registered for committing crime against Senior Citizens (aged above 60 years), showing an ...
The growing representation of women in top hierarchy of judiciary is no doubt welcome critics say celebrations are premature until ...
This is the largest such study of long Covid symptoms among children under the age of 14
Over 69 percent or 94 lakh of 123 lakh houses built under the PMAY- Gramin scheme are either wholly or ...
Maharashtra had the highest rate of suicide deaths among those employed in agriculture (37.3 percent), followed by Karnataka (19 ...
The urban literacy rate of women in 1998 was 16 percent, which has increased tremendously to 83 percent in 2021 ...
The actual prevalence of child marriages is much higher as evident from the National Family Health Survey or NFHS-5 data
According to the latest statistics released by the Home Affairs Ministry's Sample Registration System, we have managed to achieve ...
IMR has seen a 36% reduction during the past ten years. Taking into consideration the rate of Infant Mortality Rate ...
The number of over-exploited units have significantly declined from 1186 in 2017 to 1006 in 2022. The stage of ...
According to the Gender Parity Index (GPI) of Gross Enrollment Ratio (GER), the representation of girls in school education is ...
Maharashtra has performed poorly in POSHAN Abhiyan, aimed at making India malnutrition-free, with the state’s ranking slipping ...
Communal violence was reported in various cities, and in places like Udaipur a man was brutally murdered. Similar murder was ...
Rather than including step-children, adopted children and others in the category of “children”, the government will be ...
Inadequate quality of treatment is the most common reason for not using the public healthcare facilities at national level
By almost all accounts, poverty in India has declined significantly in this century; with the percentage of people living in ...
This second feature in the series analyses two aspects of the research methodology behind the Global Hunger Report that appear ...
Lets deal with the anecdotal and symbolic data first, which by definition is neither rigorous nor definitive
It is very important to take a look at the population composition as it is a very important factor which ...
The numbers indicate there is an upward trend that could possibly be deepened by government policies aimed at creating new ...
The court further added that “In the evolution of the law towards a gender-equal society, the interpretation of ...
At the National level, the mean age at effective marriage for females is 22.1 years and varies from 21 ...
While Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan, and Uttar Pradesh have brought down their IMR to 43, 32, and 38, Bihar has improved ...
The number of cases of food poisoning reported in schools across India last year, in 2022, was 979, the highest ...
The Supreme Court appointed a constitution bench on Monday to lay down certain rules and regulations to award the convict ...
CVoter-India Tracker did a survey to understand what the country thinks about the issue. The respondents were asked whether ...
In India, farmer suicides have long been a contentious topic in discussions about the state of the India’s ...
A recent incident in Uttar Pradesh’s Lakhimpur Kheri was once again shocked the nation. On Wednesday evening, the ...
Over 35 percent of boys and 21 percent of girls between six to 17 years dropped out of the schools ...
As per the NCRB report - in 2017 - 51 sedition cases were registered, 70 cases in 2018, 93 sedition cases in ...
There has been a decline of 8.0% in offenses against the State this year as compared to last year ...
In a unusual judgement, a division bench of Kerala High Court observed that the younger generation apparently views marriage as ...
The latest National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB) report shows that from 2020 to 2021, there was a 16.2% increase ...
The Social Justice and Empowerment Ministry mentioned in Lok Sabha that as per survey conducted in 2013 and 2018 - India ...
29,272 murder cases were reported in 2021, representing a marginal (0.3%) rise over 2020 (29,193 cases). Most ...
The National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB) in its latest data stated that there were 4,28,278 cases of crime ...
The recent death of a class 12th student, Ankita Singh from Jharkhand’s Dumka has sent a wave of ...
MGNREGA's data shows that women participation has increased in the programme - it grew from 40% in 2006–07 ...
As per the data of the Union women and child development (WCD) ministry, Maharashtra has the highest number of malnourished ...
A big majority of respondents said that Delhi government has failed to address the problem of pollution in the national ...
In a private school in Rajasthan's Jalore district, a nine-year-old Dalit kid died on Saturday after allegedly ...
On one hand we are celebrating the 75th year of Independence, while on the other hand, freedom from casteism in ...
Way back in 2014, Narendra Modi delivered his first address as Prime Minister from the ramparts of the Red Fort ...
Har Ghar Tiranga: Majority believe campaign has helped Kashmir to emotionally integrate with rest of the country
The Bombay High Court recently observed that the social menace of dowry still continues in our society and even the ...
The future expectations index has dipped below 100 twice in the last three years, once in May 2020 and then ...
The NREGA Sangharsh Morcha, a countrywide network of organisations and people concerned with the employment guarantee act, has called for ...
Food, Clothing and Shelter are the basic necessities for a human being to survive. Having a basic and Pucca house ...
Daily news is important; but looking at long term data is even more important
In recent times, the honourable Chief Justice of the Supreme Court N. V. Ramanna has been going hammer and tongs ...
Does this one issue establish that India is better than the United States when it comes to women’s ...
Some analysts who habitually criticise the current government say it is merely posturing and is not interested in the welfare ...
The Census provides the most authentic and reliable data to academicians from various disciplines ranging from sociology to demography to ...
The survey claims that 23 percent of young people are not interested in marriage. Earlier, this figure was 17.2 ...
In this concluding piece in the series, we now come to the most critical issue that will determine if India ...
According to a UN Report, India’s population will rise from 1.41 billion to 1.42 billion in 2023.
Freedom speech and independence of the media have always been a contentious issue in India
Rajasthan has been in the arc lights of media for the most unfortunate reasons for some time.
A huge majority of 71% of the respondents were of the opinion that Bihar was indeed going back to the ...
There can be no doubt that pollution is a crisis confronting Delhi and other cities and towns in northern India.
Child marriages are most frequent in rural India, amongst those who do not have access to education and usually belong ...
A detailed analysis of the 2021 Report released on December 16, 2021 discovers shocking misrepresentations and outright falsehoods.
About 2.5 lakh Indians officially died during the devastating second wave of Covid-19 in 2021. But the CVoter ...
The exhaustive report not only creates a better measure of poverty, but also sends three powerful signals to policy makers ...
A C-Voter poll for Odisha and Bihar shows why good governance is key for development.
Yashwant Deshmukh narrates instances of his career where he worked alongside late veteran journalist Vinod Dua.
Sound data is the bedrock of evidence-based policymaking. Without robust data to rely on, policy moves degrade into policy ...
Modi govt's approval rating shattered all records in the C-Voter's Mood of the Nation survey over the ...
Muslims have a trust problem with the prime minister and the central government run by the BJP.
In 2018 29.9% respondents expressed a “lot of trust” in police, during COVID-19 pandemic now this shot up to 70%
Psephologist Yashwant Deshmukh’s personal tribute to Sheila Dikshit, who died on Saturday at the age of 81.