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, and Political Empowerment). It is the longest-standing index tracking the progress of numerous countries’ efforts towards closing these gaps over time since …
S. Rajendran Bangalore: The former Prime Minister and national president of the Janata Dal (Secular), H.D. Deve Gowda, has called upon Karnataka Chief Minister B.S. Yeddyurappa to file a fresh affidavit before the Supreme Court highlighting that the State government will stick to the final orders of the apex court …
The economist and political commentator who was appointed to a four-member team of the UN to recommend reforms to the global financial system critiques Budget 2010 Pragya Singh Interviews Prabhat Patnaik Economist and political commentator Prabhat Patnaik, currently vice-chair of the Kerala Planning Board, is a strong critic of the …
Mumbai The Shiv Sena-controlled BEST says the BMC, of which it is a wing, should execute the Bus Rapid Transit System (BRTS) project. With the government-controlled MMRDA having refused to take up the BRTS, executing the project would give the Sena some brownie points over the Congress ahead of the …
This report focuses on water, an increasingly strategic resource in the Central Asian region for economic and social development. Says that the region as a whole is relatively well endowed in water resources but lacks good national and regional management frameworks. There are significant
The public debate on the IPCC report in India has not gone beyond what I would call page three social science. It has remained obsessed with the politics of personality and hence it is time it were rescued from this obsession and given some academic sobriety. I have flagged five …
One of the much talked-about young revolutionary leaders of the undivided CPI(ML) in Bengal in the seventies and now with the PCC CPI(ML), a smaller faction of the fractured party, Santosh Rana has emerged as a major critic of the CPI (Maoist) in the wake of the Lalgarh movement. For …
In this paper, authors Nigel Purvis and Andrew Stevenson argue that the most dangerous thing Europe and the United States could do is ignore the strategic implications of Copenhagen and fall back into old strategies with a new sense of patience. They recommend a fundamental shift in thinking.
IT has been a long and tortuous route. Forty-three years ago, a group of Maoist revolutionaries conceived of and embarked upon a revolutionary road that still inspires their political descendants, alarms the dominant classes, and provokes slander and denigration on the part of the establishment left, post-modernists and well-funded NGO …
The Indian Constitution was adopted on November 26, 1949, and came into force on January 26, 1950. It is universally believed that our Constitution is an organic living institution. It is flexible yet resilient, designed to meet the needs and requirements of a fast changing and rapidly developing society. The …
The State of Andhra had a number of firsts to its credit. It was alphabetically the first. It was recommended by the JVP (Jawaharlal, Vallabhai, Pattabhi) Committee, but rejected by a Cabinet headed by Jawaharlal, where Vallabhai was the Home Minister. It was conceded due to the first Fast Unto …
Gimmick or otherwise, austerity is once again in fashion. People’s travels could be for a purpose or for pleasure, not so for ministers and government officials. They travel for specific purposes. The publicly stated purpose could be, and usually is, very different from their private intent. Many such travels are …
Certain elected representatives who have allegedly joined hands with contractors are creating unnecessary hype over drinking water scarcity despite the fact that drinking water scarcity has not yet cropped up in the district. It is said that some elected representatives are pressurising the District Administration to take up Contractor Oriented …
Jyoti basu, the cpi(m) stalwart who served as West Bengal chief minister for 23 years, never gave long speeches on environment. But his deeds spoke louder than words. Many of the steps he took to protect the environment served as the model. He was given a high ranking among chief …
C.P. Chandrasekhar The special meeting of Chief Ministers convened by the Centre indicates that food price inflation remains worrisome. But at the meet the problem was underplayed and little of substance emerged. With food price inflation still running at close to 18 per cent, the UPA government at the Centre …
We dumped Kyoto because of the US - but even the diluted US-inspired Copenhagen accord is in peril As I visited the US last fortnight, one thing came home to me: The country has very little political will to cut greenhouse gas emissions. Policy-makers and media professionals talk about the …
DHARMAPURI: Dravidian parties in the State will never implement Hogenakkal drinking water project, said S. Ramadoss, founder, Pattali Makkal Katchi here on Wednesday. He told reporters that when the State Government had started implementing three projects namely Assembly, Secretariat and State Library simultaneously in Chennai within three months from the …
