Data: States increasingly rely on advances & OD facilities to tide over the pandemic induced fiscal stress
The RBI’s advisory committee that looked into the advances & overdraft facilities to states recently submitted its report. Data till…
The viral video of a coconut flying using mantras was part of an anti-superstition campaign aimed at exposing fraud
https://youtu.be/Wqcb6p4CwLM A video is going viral on social media (here, here, and here) showing a person flying a coconut in…
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Data doesn’t indicate any correlation between use of EVMs & Anti-Incumbency
Few Psephologists have suggested that there was 90% pro-incumbency in Lok Sabha & Assembly elections…
Is NOTA losing sheen? Data says ‘Yes’
Since the introduction of NOTA in 2013, it has become a ritual of sorts to…
Why is there no readjustment of Lok Sabha seats after every Census?
The electorate size per Lok Sabha constituency is not uniform across the country. Why is…
Fact Checking Government claims on initiatives related to Agriculture – Part 2
Here is a 2-part series on the claims made by the current government on the…
Fact Checking Government claims on initiatives related to Agriculture – Part 1
Here is a 2-part series on the claims made by the current government on the…
Fact Check: Do Women make up for more than 70% beneficiaries of Mudra loans?
In this article, we fact check some numbers related to the MUDRA scheme and the…
