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 off track
Mamata Banerjee's decision on the land acquisition policy for the dedicated freight corridor has very serious implications A K Bhattacharya / New Delhi March 30, 2010, 0:22 IST Rail Bhavan mandarins are quick to point out that in spite of their many similarities, Railways Minister Mamata Banerjee and her predecessor, Lalu Prasad, are different at least in one crucial respect.
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‘Cutting Food Subsidy To Reduce The Deficit Is Reprehensible’
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
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A belated but welcome beginning
A milestone in gender power-sharing has been passed, but the “quota-in-quota” has to be addressed. (Editorial)
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Cong sought credit for new buses, BEST uses BRTS to strike back
Mumbai The Shiv Sena-controlled BEST says the BMC, of which it is a wing, should execute the Bus Rapid Transit System (BRTS) project.
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Regional water intelligence report: Central Asia
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
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Comment: The IPCC debate: of science and politics
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 themes in my attempt to do so.
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Interview with Santosh Rana
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.
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Anarchism or revolutionary Marxism?
Commentators and politicians have romanticized, eulogized and demonized
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Rethinking climate diplomacy: new ideas for transatlantic cooperation post-Copenhagen
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.