As a country grappling with political and infrastructural problems, there are very few issues that do not evoke extreme, often diametrically opposite, reactions in India. Population control Bills, vaccination policy, farmer income initiatives, river water sharing mechanisms or surrogacy laws—there is no dearth of topics that have triggered controversy, and …
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 …
Gandhinagar: Chief Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday began the process of accommodating politicians in government-backed structures outside Sachivalaya, something he had been meticulously avoiding till now. He appointed politicians as chairmen of urban development authorities of Ahmedabad, Vadodara, Bhavnagar and Gandhinagar
Losses by the long ruling Left Front in a series of local and national elections since 2008 cannot be explained without an understanding of the nature of
This paper attempts to analyse the pattern and determinants of fund utilisation under the Members of Parliament-Local Area Development Scheme by the Lok Sabha mps. It indicates that there are political business cycles in spending by mps. Moreover, it shows that the degree of competition faced by an mp in …
Concerns about food security and apprehensions of future water scarcity are common to all the countries in the world. This paper focuses on the water issue between India and Bangladesh. Crisscrossed by the rivers and streams, Bangladesh is a water-abundant country with low-per capital water availability. Almost 94% of the …
How does the population of inegalitarian countries react to their governments’ initiatives to fight poverty and reduce inequality? Numerous studies published recently assume that the level of income inequality determines the level of popular support for redistribution. The most influential theoretical framework in this research agenda has been proposed by …
This essay integrates metaphysics, science, politics, political economy, and moral philosophy in order to explore the ways in which some Gandhian ideas, when given a genealogical reading in the dissenting thought of Early Modernity in Europe, might provide a deep basis for (a) diagnosing the religiosity of our own time, …
The government on Wednesday told Parliament that it has dropped the plan to interlink the country's Himalayan and peninsular rivers saying that it entails an expenditure of Rs 4.4 lakh crores, which the government would not be able to afford. However, water resources minister Pawan Kumar Bansal said in the …
There is a clear alliance between the party of right reaction in West Bengal, the Trinamool Congress, and the Maoists as they try out a cynical strategy of violence to defeat the state
The paper examines whether democracy at the country level and global climate change matter for another. It raises the question of how to support democracy
PALAKKAD: The CPM has been using the centrally sponsored National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (NREGS) for political gains by engaging in a campaign that it was a State Government scheme, said KPCC spokesperson M M Hassan. Addressing newsmen here on Wednesday as part of Janasree
Transparency is the newest item on the agenda of many Rajasthan ministers and MPs. C P Joshi, the man who lost the Rajasthan Assembly elections last year by just one vote, to later become the Union minister for rural development, started the trend. He got 52 NGOs led by Mazdoor …
Meena Menon DHAITANA (Beed district): The Assembly elections are not the reason for excitement in this village located in the backward Marathwada region of Maharashtra. It
The stalled Land Acquisition Bill should be completely overhauled Pranab Bardhan / September 23, 2009, 0:07 IST The stalled Land Acquisition Bill should be completely overhauled. In both China and India the issue of land acquisition has become politically very sensitive. In China by official reports more than 66 million …
Rahi Gaikwad Pandharkawada (Yavatmal district): Women in Jalka village in Yavatmal district have been going to Kalavati Bandurkar, ever since Rahul Gandhi
