India is home to 2.68 crore persons with disabilities comprising 2.21 per cent of its population (2011 Census). However, less than ...

This report on the phenomenon of political dynasties among Muslims in Uttar Pradesh is an empirical enquiry into the extent it has ...

The political exclusion of Rohingya Muslims in post-colonial Burma and the waves of violence against them in the form of a ...

This Policy Report, The Politics and Governance  of Social Policies in Delhi : Comparing Cash and In-kind Transfers, acknowledges ...

The full text of the annual Economic Survey 2017-18, in two volumes, can be accessed here:

The 2015-16 National Family Health Survey (NFHS-4), the fourth in the NFHS series, provides information on population, health, and ...

A new report by the Indian Council of Medical Research, the Public Health Foundation of India, and the Institute for Health ...

The Union Ministry of Health and Family Welfare has published the Draft Rules and Regulations under the Mental Healthcare Act, ...

The Central Bureau of Health Intelligence has been publishing an annual National Health Profile of India since 2005. According to ...

With the end of the Five Year Plan process, the NITI Aayog, the Government of India's premier think tank which replaced the ...

The NITI Aayog has published the Appraisal Document of the Twelfth Five Year Plan at its website. The document holds out a caution ...

The NITI Aayog has published a compilation of statistical data sourced from the States and Union Territories of India. The ...

The NITI Aayog, tasked by the Government of India to draw up the National Energy Policy, has published the Draft National Energy ...

The Central Statistical Origanisation (CSO), a division of the Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation, Governemnt of ...

India currently has the largest share of youth population in the world, 34.8 per cent as per the 2011 Census, and would continue ...

The contentious issue of cow slaughter has been revived with the notification of The Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (Regulation ...

The Mitanin and Sahiyya community health worker programmes of Chhattisgarh and Jharkhand were initiated by civil society and state ...

The Hindu Centre for Politics and Public Policy and Asian College of Journalism is organising a Public discussion on ...

"The National Health Policy of 1983 and the National Health Policy of 2002 have served well in guiding the approach for the ...

On February 14, 2017, the Supreme Court of India delivered its verdict on one of India's most high-profile corruption cases in ...

The Election Commission of India (ECI) has announced the schedule for the Legislative Assembly Elections in Assam, Kerala, Tamil ...

Full text of the address by the President of India, Pranab Mukherjee, to the joint session of Parliament on February 23, 2016. The ...

This report examines the status of intra-party democracy in the two major political parties of India — the Indian National ...

Making a case for Proportional Representation mechanism as opposed to the incumbent First-Past-the-Post electoral system followed ...

Electoral battles in the southern Indian State of Tamil Nadu have mostly thrown up decisive results; the 2009 Parliamentary ...

In this Modi-centric election campaign and its media representation, the two starkly opposite narratives, also sometimes labeled ...

As election season heats up and women’s issues come to the forefront of the discussion, Hardeep Dhillon deconstructs the political ...

Developments in the political arena in Punjab since the 2012 assembly election, when the People’s Party of Punjab (PPP) was ...

To what extent do political parties in India practice intra-party democracy in their functioning? Ruchika Singh ​ ​analyses ...

Religious neutrality has become an accepted behavioural script for the state, but not for society and certainly not for ...

"Today, India is blessed with the rare capacity and opportunity of Democracy, Demography and Demand. If we are able to ...

A close look at the BJP’s election manifestoes from 1996 shows a consistent pattern of fielding the core Hindutva issues. What ...

In an analysis of the internal process of nominating candidates for the parliamentary elections to the Lok Sabha, ADNAN FAROOQUI ...

This is the Election Commission of India's guidelines on the code of conduct for political parties and their candidates. It ...

"After election to Parliament, the members become entitled to certain amenities. These amenities are provided to members with ...

"The Aam Admi Party is not just another party. It is a party that risen from the struggles of Ramlila Maidan and Jantar ...

The five year term of the 15th Lok Sabha is due to expire on 31st May, 2014. Article 324 of the Constitution of India bestows the ...

"The Indian National Congress has pioneered an entirely new way in which political party election manifestos are prepared. It ...

"The country needs to be rescued from the politics and policies of the Congress and the BJP. What is required are alternative ...

"The situation today calls for a much more vigorous and sustained struggle by the Left to protect the economic sovereignty, ...