Covid-19 held up 5.8 lakh elective surgeries in India. Here’s why further delay should be avoided

Over time, elective surgeries will become emergency surgeries, increasing complications and mortality.

Chaitanya Mallapur, IndiaSpend.com

· May 28, 2020 · 01:30 pm

India’s Covid-19 lockdown may cause 38 million job losses in the travel and tourism industry

The sector employs 12.75% of the country’s workforce.

Chaitanya Mallapur, IndiaSpend.com

· Apr 14, 2020 · 01:30 pm

Indian households’ ineffective waste management is putting sanitation workers at risk of Covid-19

Sanitation workers, like frontline health workers, should be provided with personal protective equipment.

Chaitanya Mallapur, IndiaSpend.com

· Apr 10, 2020 · 06:30 pm

Coronavirus pandemic: India should wake up to the need for prison reforms

The prisons are overcrowded and medical staff is under-trained.

Chaitanya Mallapur, IndiaSpend.com

· Mar 26, 2020 · 01:30 pm

100 Indians died in police custody in 2017, yet nobody has been convicted

Custodial deaths increased by 9% in one year from 2016, as per NCRB data.

Chaitanya Mallapur, IndiaSpend.com

· Nov 19, 2019 · 08:30 pm

A new bill makes surrogacy illegal for single parents, homosexuals and live-in couples

Passed by the Lok Sabha in August, the new bill allows only infertile couples, married for more than five years to opt for altruistic surrogacy.

Chaitanya Mallapur, IndiaSpend.com

· Aug 29, 2019 · 01:30 pm

Rain-related calamities have killed 2,000 Indians every year since 2016

Bihar, Kerala, West Bengal, Maharashtra and Himachal Pradesh account for 51% of all deaths.

Chaitanya Mallapur, IndiaSpend.com

· Jul 31, 2019 · 08:30 pm

The rise in India’s tiger population is only half the story. The other half is less rosy

A fourth of India’s tigers lived outside protected areas in 2015, a situation made worse by encroachments.

Chaitanya Mallapur, IndiaSpend.com

· Jul 30, 2019 · 08:30 pm

The Mumbai Fire Brigade gets one emergency call every day to report a structural collapse

‘Safety is not a law, it is a culture.’ That’s where Maximum City falls short.

Chaitanya Mallapur, IndiaSpend.com

· Jul 19, 2019 · 08:30 pm

While Sri Lanka grows richer, India remains a lower-middle-income nation

India is the only BRICS country in the World Bank category.

Chaitanya Mallapur, IndiaSpend.com

· Jul 05, 2019 · 01:30 pm

Lower attendance, fewer debates: How celebrity MPs fared in the outgoing Lok Sabha

They utilised more of their constituency development funds on average than their fellow MPs, though.

Chaitanya Mallapur, IndiaSpend.com

· May 12, 2019 · 01:30 pm

More than 2,000 people were booked for drunk driving in India’s big cities on New Year’s eve

Between 2008 and 2017, 76,446 people died in 211,405 road accidents nationwide due to consumption of alcohol or drugs, data show.

Chaitanya Mallapur, IndiaSpend.com

· Jan 04, 2019 · 11:30 pm