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How ignorance cuts India's healthy life by half

Towns and cities across India are seeing a steady rise in the prevalence of non-communicable diseases because of a lack of awareness

Bihar's swinging vote: the BJP's advantage

While the BJP won 22 of 40 seats in the 2014 Lok Sabha elections, the NDA led by the BJP, won 31 seats

India's power utilities owe banks $90 billion, cripple future

This is equivalent to 2.5 times the defence budget, and enough to wipe out India's fiscal deficit.

Sexual assault, rape top crimes against scheduled castes

Uttar Pradesh, India's most-populous state, reported the most crimes against SCs.

Crimes against Bihar's vulnerable communities soar

The total number of crimes against women has more than doubled between 2005 and 2014

Quality of death: UK tops, India 67th, above China

India, however, improved its position from the 2010 index, where it stood at the bottom of a 40-country list

4 factors that will likely decide Bihar elections

Apart from caste, four distinct factors - two behavioural and two based on poll arithmetic - are likely to decide the political fate of Bihar

Delhi had clean spring air - but it won't last

Stagnant air explains why pollutants accumulate throughout the workweek in winter, and why spring sees more variation within days

How India cut neonatal tetanus mortality by 99.76%

Three successive years of meeting the neonatal tetanus elimination threshold of less than one case in 1,000 live births in every district led the WHO to declare India free of neonatal tetanus in May 2

India gets power boost from 58% drop in gas prices

There is now hope for India's natural-gas-fired power plants which have a 24,000 MW capacity, as prices of petroleum and natural gas have fallen

Bihar Elections: Can BJP continue its 2014 winning streak?

The Bihar polls are crucial for the BJP to consolidate power and to improve its numbers in the Rajya Sabha

How dengue has breached India's class barriers

Sharp rise in dengue cases over the past two decades, with a 50% increase over 2014; rich hit as hard as the poor, rural areas increasingly affected

Labeling sleight-of-hand lets 86% Indians have 'safe drinking water'

The census considers water supply from handpumps and tubewells as safe as piped drinking water, although these are carriers of diseases

Why Uttar Pradesh is India's communal tinderbox

As many as 703 religious conflicts were reported in Uttar Pradesh (UP) during the past five years, leading to 176 deaths and 2007 injuries, the highest in India

Bihar Elections: 'Clean' candidates achieve only 4%-8% success

In the 2010 elections, the success rate of "clean" candidates fell to 4% from 8% in 2005

Rajasthan's revolution: in 30 panchayats, more girls born than boys

What makes it special is that Rajasthan has India's fifth worst child sex-ratio, or the number of females per 1,000 males in the age group 0-6

Power demand up 94%, but Bihar unable to cope

Bihar's per capita power consumption is 85% lower than the all-India average, while only 26% rural households have electricity

From proxies to politicians: Bihar's female MLAs

If educational qualifications alone were an indicator to empowerment, then female MLAs in Bihar vidhan sabha are not doing badly: As many as 32% of them have graduate degrees and above, while 41% have

Fire accidents kill 54 people daily in India, yet deaths have declined

Accidental fires caused 6% of all unnatural deaths in India, third-highest after car accidents at 53%, and drowning at 9%

Why Masahun Khatun and 50,000 pregnant women died in India

India's MMR, or maternal mortality ratio (number of maternal deaths per 100,000 live child births), was 178 in 2010-12, worse than poorer countries such as Myanmar and Nepal