World migration report 2024
The International Organization for Migration (IOM) launched the World Migration Report 2024, which reveals significant shifts in global migration patterns, including a record number of displaced people
The International Organization for Migration (IOM) launched the World Migration Report 2024, which reveals significant shifts in global migration patterns, including a record number of displaced people
The phenomenon of population ageing is becoming a major concern for the policy makers all over the world, for both developed and developing countries, during last two decades. But the problems arising
There is a debate in India about the possible extension of minimum wages to all wage-earners. This study provides some benchmark figures on the effects of either making the national minimum wage floor
The buildings of the Anganwadi Centres selected under Atal Bal Arogya Evam Poshan Mission in Madhya Pradesh will be developed into Model Anganwadis (Anganwadi Nursery Schools) as per Build As Leaning Aid (BALA) scheme. The State Government has allocated Rs. 10 thousand each for 25 Anganwadi Centres in every district for wall paining and re-decoration. Out of this, Rs.
<p>The inquiry committee report on the anti-cervical cancer vaccine study project finds serious ethical violations. (Editorial)</p>
<p>The current perception that cash transfers can replace public provision of basic goods and services and become a catch-all solution for poverty reduction is false. Where cash transfers have helped to reduce poverty, they have added to public provision, not replaced it.
Domestic pressures and the demands of raising a family are not the only reasons women in India give up pursuing pure science studies and research. Institutional barriers, organisational biases, lack of opportunity and discriminatory policies are equally responsible, according to a poll of women scientists conducted by researchers at the National Institute of Advanced Studies (NIAS), Bangalore.
Expressing concern over the declining child sex ratio as indicated in the provisional figures of the Census 2011, civil society groups have asked the Centre to take cognisance of the increasing challenges in this area of sex selection and undertake urgent measures to overcome these. As per the figures, the child sex-ratio has further dropped to 914 from 927 in 2001, registering a decline of 13
<p>The Government of India through “Ministry for the Development of North-Eastern Region” (DoNER) has initiated the “North East Rural Livelihoods Project” for four north-eastern States (Mizoram, Nagaland, Sikkim and Tripura) of India.
<p>Ministry of Development of North Eastern Region (MDONER) has taken up the North East Rural Livelihood Project (NERLP) with the support of the World Bank in the States of Mizoram, Nagaland, Sikkim and Tripura to assist the rural poor and vulnerable groups including women in improving their livelihood.