Review: RBI paper highlights the risk in the Finances of 10 States
The RBI recently published an article State finances and the Risk Analysis. The article aims to look at the fiscal…
Old and Unrelated Visuals Falsely Linked to June 2025 Iran–Israel Conflict
https://youtu.be/fSqIEvd5b94 On 13 June 2025, Israel launched attacks on more than a dozen targets across Iran under the codename Operation…
Stories
Data: Utilization of ‘Cesses & Surcharges’ for the intended purpose remains a concern
As we highlighted earlier, the increase in the share of ‘Cesses & Surcharges’ in centre’s…
Data: Where are we on Maternal & Child Mortality indicators?
Over many years, India has made considerable progress on many of the maternal & child…
Data: Share of Cesses & Surcharges increase from 10.4% to 15.3% of Gross Tax Revenue in 10 years
The issue of Central Cesses has been a contentious one since the amount collected through…
Review: Here are a few archaic laws that are irrelevant in today’s times
India has thousands of Central & State laws some of which were passed during the…
Review: Madras High Court calls for exploitation of animals to be stopped
In this round-up of important court decisions, we look at decisions about the exploitation of…
Data: 340 deaths of Manual Scavengers in Sewers & Septic tanks between 2016 & 2020
Manual scavenging has been a scourge of the Indian society for decades. Despite legislative efforts,…
