Global gender gap report 2023
The Global Gender Gap Index annually benchmarks the current state and evolution of gender parity across four key dimensions (Economic Participation and Opportunity, Educational Attainment, Health and Survival,
Politics
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Antarctic Treaty is cold comfort
Researchers need to cement the bond between science and the South Pole if the region is to remain one of peace and collaboration. (Editorial)
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Corruption and fairy tale elections
Graft is a major issue in people’s lives, but it is unlikely to figure in voter choice in the assembly elections. (Editorial)
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Workers’ discontent and form of trade union politics
An assessment of the Maruti Suzuki Employees Union’s struggles against the Suzuki management in Manesar (Gurgaon) reveals that like central trade unions, plant unions also tend to reproduce a form of bureaucratic
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Radical politics and environmentalism against Taungya in Dooars
The mainstream paradigm of understanding grass-root environmentalism in India as “environmentalism of the poor” might be challenged by an alternative prototype forest movement in the Bengal Dooars prior
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Punjab congress manifesto for Punjab elections 2012
Today Punjab is facing crisis in all spheres, be it stagnating agriculture, flight of industry from Punjab, poor education quality, poor healthcare, rising epidemics of cancer and drug addiction, unprecedented
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The Lokpal and Lokayukta Bill, 2011
A Bill to provide for the establishment of a body of Lokpal for the Union and Lokayukta for States to inquire into allegations of corruption against certain public functionaries and for matters connected
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Critical mass
Even Japan’s political leaders struggle to get answers regarding the Fukushima disaster. It is just the latest example of the government’s lack of independent scientific advice. (Editorial)
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‘Republic killing its own children’
Has the Indian state decided that elimination of the leadership is the way to respond to the Maoists? (Editorial)
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Forty eighth report on the Lokpal Bill, 2011
The Lokpal Bill, 2011 was introduced in the Lok Sabha on 4th August, 2011. It was referred by the Hon’ble Chairman, Rajya Sabha to the Department-Related Parliamentary Standing Committee on Personnel,
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Shifting geopolitics shake UN climate talks
New tensions and alignments are emerging at the UN talks here, reflecting subtle but far-reaching changes in the geopolitics of climate change. Delegates and veteran observers say the shifts challenge