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The Trouble With India’s Heatwave Mortality Estimates
Dear Reader
India does not have a single national estimate of how many people die because of heatwaves.
For 2024, the National Crime Records Bureau recorded 1,832 deaths from heat or sunstroke. The National Centre for Disease Control coun...
Are Fast-Track Courts Actually Fast?
Dear Reader
India’s 775 fast-track special courts—398 of them set up exclusively for cases under the POCSO Act—have disposed of 366,124 cases since 2019. By April 2026, they still had 249,000 pending.
That’s the backdrop against which Pri...
IndiaSpend Is Now ISignal, India’s Data Desk
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It was 2011. The national conversation was centred around accountability, but apart from some numbers that were routinely quoted, the narrative—for the large part—remained abstract, sans the information and context that can hel...
The Crisis That’s Weighing India Down
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More than a quarter of Indian men and women are overweight or obese. This is in a country where, as we reported last week, every third Indian child is still underweight. How can this happen together? The answer lies largely in...
What NFHS Tells Us About Mothers & Children
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Every three years or so, the National Family Health Survey gives us a detailed snapshot of health across India—based on interviews with hundreds of thousands of households.
The sixth round released this year covers over 680,0...
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