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Verbal Jugglery Lets 86% Indian Households Have 'Safe Drinking Water'
About 86% of Indian households have access to "safe drinking water", according to official data, yet...
How Ignorance Cuts India's Healthy Life By Half
In 2013, Indian men could expect to live to 64.2 years, 6.9 years longer than in 1990, according to the Global Burden of...
Why Masahun Khatun And 50,000 Pregnant Women Died
Rafiq Khatun, a daily wage labourer from Phulvari Sharif in eastern Bihar, lost his wife Masahun in a botched abortion. ...
In 8 Years, Boys 3 Cm And Girls 1 Cm Taller
Eighteen-year-old boys from India's middle and upper classes are 3 cm taller and girls 1 cm taller than they were eight...
83% Shortage Of Specialists In Community Health Centres
India’s public-health system needs urgent attention and investment--especially in the rural areas, reveals an IndiaSpend...
PM's Claim Of Toilets For Girls In Every School Fails Scrutiny
Two new toilets were built at a government primary school in Vidisha, Madhya Pradesh, but since there’s no outlet, the...
Shut Out: India's Poor, Urban Children—Part I
Child labour in India's urban areas increased 53% over the decade between 2001 and 2011. In the age group...
Drowning: An Unknown Public-Health Disaster
It is reasonably well known that India has the world's deadliest roads, with traffic accidents accounting for 53% of...