As many as 9,474 students committed suicide in 2016–almost 26 every day–according to this reply to the Lok Sabha (lower house of Parliament) by H G Ahir, minister of state for home affairs, on January 2, 2018. Student suicides in the country have increased 52%–from 17 every day (6,248) in 2007 to 26 …Read More
India’s smaller, richer states and union territories have the highest rates of pending cases in district courts, government data show. At 37 cases per 1,000 population, Chandigarh, a union territory (an administrative unit ruled by the Centre, not its own elected government), had the highest rate in the country as of January 1, …Read More
As many as 47 members of legislative assembly (MLAs) (26%) of the newly elected 182-member Gujarat assembly have declared criminal charges against them. Thirty three MLAs (18%) have been charged for serious criminal offences including murder and attempt to murder, according to an analysis by Association for Democratic Reforms, an advocacy. The …Read More
In 2011, 4.1% Indians slipped into poverty, earning less than $1.90 (2011) or Rs 84 per person per day, due to out-of-pocket health expenditure, the second highest proportion in the world after Bangladesh. In absolute numbers, 52.5 million Indians were impoverished due to health costs in 2011, almost half of the world’s impoverished …Read More
As many as 1,971 cases of sexual harassment of women at workplace were registered in four years till December 12, 2017, or one case every day, according to this reply to the Lok Sabha (lower house of Parliament) on December 15, 2017. Cases reported increased by 45% from 371 in 2014 to 539 in 2017 …Read More
