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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Regreening of Japan
The Japanese have regenerated their forests twice after their large scale destruction. But today, it is doing so at the cost of tropical forests of Southeast Asia
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Smuggled wood seized
a huge illegal consignment of timber worth several crores has been seized by forest department officials at a number of railway stations including Nangloi (Delhi), Rajpura (Punjab) and Tinsukhia
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Riots for water
Faced with a severe drought, the Gujarat government decided to reserve water from a dam for the town of Jamnagar. Rural folk of Saurashtra protested. In the ensuing riots, three people died
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An open letter to the Prime Minister
Dear Prime Minister, This is a year of severe drought in Gujarat and western Madhya Pradesh - an area that is well known for natural disasters of this kind. During the last general elections, your
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Technical Problem!
Procedural delays on the part of implementing agencies will ensure that the Supreme Court deadline for the conversion of old Delhi Transport Corporation buses to compressed natural gas will not be met
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Progress report
On July 28, 1998, the Supreme Court ruled that all eight year old buses should be converted to CNG by March 2000 and the entire fleet of 10,000 by April 2001. This is all that has happened till November 1, 1999
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If this suffering makes you feel sick...
In the face of tremendous odds, some ordinary citizens of Orissa are showing great spirit
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Both blind and corrupt
In the world of Indian journalism the word corrupt is often confused with the word Bihar
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The shifting sands
At first the rivers and the people were both unfettered. Then the politicians came between them
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State of despair
Criminals followed corrupt politicians into grabbing contracts related to earthworks. Today, they fund political parties and virtually run the state