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

In 2016-’17, India’s derailment deaths are highest in a decade

No one was killed when the Kaifiyat Express went off the tracks in UP on Wednesday. But 458 people have died in train derailments over the past ten years.

Chaitanya Mallapur, IndiaSpend.com

· Aug 23, 2017 · 06:30 pm

Corporate donations between 2012-13 and 2015-16: BJP 705.81 crore, Congress 198.16 crore

An analysis of known donations above Rs 20,000 to national parties by Association of Democratic Reforms.

Chaitanya Mallapur, IndiaSpend.com

· Aug 19, 2017 · 08:30 pm

High targets and wasted funds: The problems with the Skill India programme

The government has missed its skills training targets for each except one of the last five years, official data shows.

Chaitanya Mallapur, IndiaSpend.com

· Jul 26, 2017 · 07:30 pm

More male foetus abortions than female? Official data indicates vast under-reporting

As many as 238 foetuses and newborns were abandoned in South Delhi alone.

Chaitanya Mallapur, IndiaSpend.com

· Sep 02, 2016 · 08:30 pm

87% of exploitation and ill-treatment complaints by Indian workers abroad come from the Gulf

The Indian mission in Qatar has received the highest number of such complaints,

Chaitanya Mallapur, IndiaSpend.com

· Aug 03, 2016 · 11:30 pm