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India's defence spending

FM Arun Jaitley had hinted that budgetary outlay for defence and security could go up, during a speech at a State Bank of India conference in Mumbai

Story in numbers: Have money, won't spend

The 2014-15 Union Budget had a 25% increase in allocation to two funds, meant for Dalits and Adivasis

New patterns in crime

The crime rate, reported per 100,000 population, increased to 581 in 2014 and 582 in 2015, from 456 in 2005, data from NCRB show

Assam: The troubling dynamics of Tribal identity

Kokrajhar is the heart of the Bodo territory

Cow vigilantism has spread across India

Incidents related to cow vigilantism in the past six months suggest this phenomenon is not restricted to north or central India

Story in numbers: Fatalities in terrorist violence in J&K

Burhan Wani, described as the poster boy of militancy in Kashmir, was killed on July 8.Over the past five years, this 22-year-old had led a group of 60-70 young and educated people from south Kashmir in a purely home-grown resistance, with the help of social media and some bold messaging. He assisted in promoting the growing alienation in Kashmir, especially among the younger generation.Wani was radicalised by the ill-treatment his brother suffered in police custody and, later, fired by the resistance mounted by those who banded together to throw stones at symbols of the Indian state. While there is no doubt that infiltration from across the border has exacerbated the disturbances in Kashmir, it is also true that the causes are socio-economic.The pattern of fatalities suggests that the Kashmiri peoples' commitment to the electoral process has gone hand in hand with bitterness over the presence of the Army and paramilitary forces in the state. Record turnouts in the 2008 and 2014 Assemb

The higher education challenge before Prakash Javadekar

If India is to meet its target - 30 per cent GER by 2020 - about 40 million students need to be enrolled in the higher education system in 2020

Story in numbers: The puzzle of India's sex ratio

What does India's sex ratio over the years tell us? That there's good news and bad news. The good news is that against the current all-India average of 944 women per 1,000 men, not all states are badly off. The bad news is that states that showed a healthy balance between women and men have gradually slid to a point where they now mimic the all-India reality that is weighed against women.How could this have happened? Conventional wisdom says improvement in the sex ratio in favour of women is a function of development and literacy. But, in an industrialised state like Maharashtra, which showed 82 per cent literacy in the 2011 Census, the sex ratio has slid. In the so-called matrilineal societies, especially in the North-East, in Manipur, Mizoram and Nagaland, the sex ratio began by being in favour of women but has turned against them over the years.In Uttar Pradesh, on the other hand, despite low levels of development and industrialisation, the variation in the sex ratio has remained mo

Taxing time for MLAs?

Analysis of income-tax and PAN details of MLAs in the five Assembly elections just gone by

Tamil Nadu polls: Decoding the candidates

Chief ministerial candidates of three major parties in Tamil Nadu - AIADMK chief J Jayalalithaa, DMK chief M Karunanidhi and DMDK leader Vijayakanth - are among the top 10 candidates with the highest assets

Story in numbers: Income and expenditure of national parties

The total includes income from various sources all over India, as shown in their income-tax returns

Parliament functioned smoothly except in monsoon session last year

Sahil Makkar compiles the number of productive hours and the Bills passed in both Houses

Story in numbers: Bounties for the Well-off

The government spends nearly 4.2 per cent of the gross domestic product in subsidising various commodities and services.