LS MPs are paid Rs 2.8 lakh per month plus travel and other perks which works out to nearly Rs 177 crore for 545 MPs during the last financial year. Add another Rs 78 crore for the Rajya Sabha MPs, according to data.
India's economy - ranked eighth in 2015 with a GDP of $2 trillion - is projected to climb past Brazil, the United Kingdom, France, Germany and Japan and become the world's third-largest in 2030 with a GDP of $7.3 trillion.
This can happen if the government reaches its goal of 100 giga watts of solar photovoltaic energy and 60 GW of wind energy
21st century may have witnessed expansion of higher educational institutions, but who can afford it? Sushree Panigrahi & Jeet Singh look at the numbers.
India is building its oil reserves in underground rock caverns and tanks
Within two weeks of the speech, the prime minister flagged off the Pradhan Mantri Jan Dhan Yojana, and the day was marked by announcing its outcome on the very first day of its implementation.
Experts believe cyclical glitches account for the downturn in mobile-phone sales
Wealth of the richest 62 people has risen 44% in the five years since 2010, while that of the bottom half fell by 41%
The government may claim planted trees compensate for forests lost, but that does not mean complex flora and fauna destroyed have been restored, points out Himadri Ghosh.
The crux of the problem is change, specifically the Rs 500 note, which India's presses cannot, currently, print in adequate number, says Sahil Kini/IndiaSpend.
'People are angry.' 'First notebandi, then GST, now losses on the farm have ruined us.'
Rising skills gap, falling exports, low productivity, rising debt and low foreign investment is jeopardising the target set for the textile and apparels sector
A Bank Investment Company to act as a holding company for state-owned banks would go a long way in minimising government interference and improving governance.
The crisis in Indian banking has now reached a point where the NPAs of many public-sector banks are higher than their net worth
No more than 62% of farmland acquired for Special Economic Zones has been used for its intended purpose of boosting manufacturing, exports and jobs
A programme that endeavours to graduate the poorest people could have seminal implications for Prime Minister Narendra Modi's government.
More people will be literate, on the Internet, linked to the national identification scheme and likely to receive electricity, especially from alternative-energy sources.
Andhra Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Maharashtra and Tamil Nadu likely to be India's most water-scarce states this summer
Apart from cotton, copper, petroleum and industrial machinery, India does not export much to China. This means that India buys six times the merchandise it sells to China, points out Abhishek Waghmare.
The construction sector is now India's second-largest employer after agriculture, the trend coinciding with India's high-growth phase and decline in poverty levels
Some of the World Bank's suggestions to hold back the predicted tide of fresh poverty appear to run counter to the economic policies of Narendra Modi's government
The top 10 in terms of the number of MSMEs is dominated by the larger states with Uttar Pradesh at the top.
After two surprising, successive rate cuts in January and February 2015, RBI governor Raghuram Rajan decided not to reduce them further in his first policy announcement in the new financial year. Is he playing spoilsport for consumers of homes and cars?
By region, Thiruvananthapuram leads with 247 defaulters, followed by Kolkata with 173 and Bhubaneswar with 115
At its peak five years ago, it was a lifeline for 5.5 crore, or one in every three rural homes
The days of political elite have ended with the advent of new politics and new media. Today every citizen is a politician, social worker and an intellectual, says Ram Madhav, BJP national general secretary.
'If every city had the strongest tools that are currently available only to a few, the world's climate prospects would glow far more brightly.'
The World Bank said improved infrastructure, specifically rural electrification, has had far-ranging effects
With nearly a million identified slums, UP urgently requires housing for the poor
Cigarette companies have substantial wriggle room thanks to India's complex tax structure, which categorises them by length and filter
'After household expenses, we are left with nothing...' 'Sometimes I think it is better to shut the store...'
Rs 200-cr burden likely for TV rating agencies.
Distress sales, market closures and anchoring of fishing fleets have been reported from West Bengal, Andhra Pradesh, Tamil Nadu and Kerala.
A data plan currently priced at Rs 100 should not cost more than Rs 34, if India has to make the Internet affordable for 80 per cent of its population.
The average land given to the rural landless is small and falling, from 0.95 acres in 2002 to 0.88 acres in 2015 - a 7.4 per cent drop over 13 years-and a slowdown is evident in the process of taking land away from rich landlords, the RTI data reveal.
We are surrounded by food that is contaminated, adulterated and does not meet Indian safety and packaging standards, says Abheet Singh Sethi/IndiaSpend.com.
India Inc is automating and squeezing more output from its workers and so needs fewer of them, finds out IndiaSpend Team.
With India poised to become the largest economy in the world by 2030, it cannot afford to leave half of its workforce behind.
A review of key pronouncements he made in his first Independence Day Speech on August 15, 2014.
A large number of rich farmers, who earn more than salaried employees in the cities, get away with paying no tax at all in view of the government's lack of will to consider an agricultural income tax
