Noida: IndiaSpend is launching Food Price Watch, a new realtime dashboard, which aggregates food prices from various groups ...

NiV infection is a zoonotic illness that is transmitted to people from animals--an event termed as a ‘spillover’. The state of Kerala has reported 10 spillovers of Nipah virus since 2018, of which ...

Landslides are an annual occurrence during monsoons, but developmental activities and the climate crisis have been increasing the risk of these disasters. In 2022, 10 states reported 182 ...

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 ...

Mount Abu, Rajasthan: In November 2024, a 32-year-old male resident of Delhi was rushed to a nursing home for shortness of breath and fever. He was treated with carbapenem, a high-end antibiotic used ...

The energy sector alone accounts for around 75% of India’s total emissions, followed by agriculture (14%), industrial processes and product use (8%), and waste (3%), as reported in India’s Fourth ...

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 ...

Ajay Kumar Chandel, the head of Bhagetu, told IndiaSpend that frequent fires had thinned the forest cover on the slope opposite his village in the last few decades. “In the eighties, when the forest ...

Noida: This year, India recorded more cases of chikungunya and Japanese encephalitis compared to 2023, while dengue and malaria cases are showing up well beyond the usual months. A strain of ...

Ladakh: Two in every three of India's snow leopard population of 718 is in Ladakh, but conservationists worry that these ‘mountain ghosts’ face a growing immediate threat from stray dogs, growing ...

Bengaluru: Shishir (name changed) was released on cash bail in the middle of October 2024, after spending three years as an undertrial prisoner in Thane jail in a case of murder. A mason and carpenter ...