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 …
Rajat Roy / Kolkata May 22, 2009, 0:15 IST A120-acre city centre in Kharagpur, about 100 km from Kolkata, became the first casualty of the CPI(M)-led Left Front government
The opposition by farmers over the acquisition of 1,000 acres of land for an airport in Bellary which had gathered momentum during run-up to the Lok Sabha elections did result in reducing the victory margin for the BJP candidate, admitted Health Minister B Sriramulu in Bangalore on Wednesday. Sriramulu
Denied rights, aggrieved citizens abstain from voting having lost their means to earn a living, communities are increasingly using their vote to drive home the message they distrust the State. Tribals who lost their agricultural land in a forest area because of faulty implementation of forest rights laws in Maharashtra …
Politicians warring for votes in South African elections had an unanticipated problem. Posters were defaced by people wielding thick black markers, stencils, duct tape and spray-paint. African National Congress president Jacob Zuma suffered the worst, at least in Johannesburg. His detractors added horns to his visage, a forked tongue, a …
AKSHAYA KUMAR SAHOO BHUBANESWAR The victory of Posco Pratirodh Sangram Samiti (PPSS), the anti-displacement forum which has been spearheading the movement against Rs 52,000-crore Posco steel project, in the just-concluded Dhinkia gram panchayat polls is unlikely to create any further problem to the country
A member of the Taluk Panchayat has been obstructing the implementation of the National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (NREGS) and thus he needs to be disqualified, said activists of the Karnataka Prantha Raitha Sangha. President of the Taluk Unit of the Karnataka Prantha Raitha Sangha Holalur Shankar addressing the media …
The Maoists want a provision in the electoral rules to arm the voter with the right to reject a candidate, but if the voters are granted such a provision, will they allow them to participate in the elections, or still insist on boycotting them? It is high time the Maoists …
The positive association between the service sector share of output and per capita income is one of the best-known regularities in all of growth and development economics. Yet there is less than complete agreement on the nature of that association. This paper identify two waves of service sector growth, a …
In recent decades, the Arctic has undergone major environmental, socio-economic and political changes. The rapid loss of Arctic ice is having negative consequences on northern communities and lifestyles, on iconic species such as the polar bear, and is altering the ecology of the Arctic ocean and the permafrost lands. With …
Sukanya Shetty Uran, April 23 ADDING a new dimension to the anti-special economic zone (SEZ) campaign, a Raigad activist group has leaped into Lok Sabha elections for the first time and is contesting from one of the 25 seats in Maharashtra that will go to polls in the second phase …
Mumbai Congress president Kripashanker Singh discusses with Dhaval Kulkarni how the party plans to retain the five Lok Sabha seats it won in the last elections Has the delimitation rendered some city seats favourable to the Shiv Sena-BJP? Earlier, there were a few pockets that were favourable to us, but …
DEHRA DUN: Veteran environmentalist Sunderlal Bahuguna has expressed concern over the fact that none of the political parties has taken up environmental concerns as an issue in the run-up to the coming Lok Sabha elections. Environmental degradation, global warming, recession of glaciers, water scarcity, increase in sea levels and increasing …
Rahi Gaikwad Poor infrastructure; dismal situation on power, irrigation fronts BJP promises to make Maharashtra free of load-shedding Marathwada has sizeable number of Dalits, Muslims Mumbai: The second phase of Lok Sabha elections is going to be a massive one for Maharashtra. Today (Thursday) the State will see 25 constituencies …
K. Venkateswarlu Andhra Pradesh tribals live in pathetic conditions, with little or no access to health care For decades, democracy remained a distant dream for the aboriginal Chenchu tribes in the Nallamala hill ranges of Andhra Pradesh. They hardly had a chance to vote freely, caught in the crossfire between …
