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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Going green helps
The evidence is conclusive. Politicians who take care of the environment end up taking care of the people and their vote bank as well
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Diesel needs to be dearer still
Diesel will cost more now. But not for any compelling health or environmental reason
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The deadly public sector
It is clear that the state does not function in India. Politicians and bureaucrats can go hang themselves
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NDA s agenda for governance: Not even the bare essentials
Health and drinking water: We will spare no efforts to ensure that potable drinking water is available to all villages in the next five years. Age-old and tradi tional methods of water utilisation,
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The congress manifesto: home work pays
Agriculture: Special programmes to restore productivity of lands that have become barren because of sali nity
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It was the Congress that put environment on the national agenda
<font class='UCASE'>Kamal Nath,</font> former Union minister of environment and forests and a leader of the Indian National Congress, spoke to Down To Earth about his party s successes and failures in tackling environmental issues in the country. Excer
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Promising water
NDA's promise on water is nothing more than words. And at best it means a lot of valuable taxpayer money literally thrown down the drain
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Politics menus environment
Environmental concern has never been a political issue in India. Is it appropriate to expect a change in the mindset of leaders in the forthcoming elections?
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Whither Green parties?
Voters' support is likely to remain a protest against major European parties
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UNITED NATIONS
The rapid increase in small-mining in poor nations, often employing women and children, is taking a heavy toll by way of fatalities and diseases, said the International Labour Organisation (ILO).