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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Despite drought, no takers for Parl panel on agriculture
Saubhadro Chatterji / New Delhi August 26, 2009, 0:21 IST Though the country is facing drought and low agricultural output, political parties seem to be reluctant to take up responsibilities to head the parliamentary panel on Agriculture.
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Politics may cut your quota of water
THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Political short-sightedness could lose several city areas the fruits of the Japan International Co-operation Agency (JICA)-assisted water supply scheme.
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Oppn against plantation of Akasia saplings
Henceforth Forest department will not be able to take the easy route for tree plantations by planting Akasia saplings. The Opposition during Zero Hour on Monday while questioning the government over its programme for planting saplings, suggested that department should go in for other species of trees which would be more useful.
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Opposition against coop farming
Aug. 3: Major Opposition parties including the Telugu Desam, the Praja Rajyam and Left parties have decided to oppose the government proposal to introduce cooperative farming.
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A vaccine for corrupt alliances
The last time the prime minister bent too far to keep the coalition going WHEN the United Progressive Alliance (upa) was looking for partners after the 2004 general election, anyone was welcome. But has better judgment prevailed this time around? The coalition could ask itself this as it clears the mess left behind by the former Union minister for health and family welfare. It was a
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From the blurbs
Good Women Do Not Inherit Land, Politics of Land and Gender in India by Nitya Rao, Orient Blackswan, Hyderabad, Rs 795 This book takes us to the lives and anxieties of Santhal women in two villages of Dumka district, Jharkhand. The life histories span different social patterns but all of them relate to rights in landed property, and their own troubled identities in the backdrop of
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Inspired by Marx
Kameshwar Baitha, MP, will now fight to end Naxalism from jail There was a price on his head just a few years ago; Bihar, Jharkhand and Uttar Pradesh had together declared a reward of Rs 5 lakh for anyone helping in his arrest. Today, the head is held high
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Where Is the Geography? World Banks WDR 2009
The World Development Report, a flagship report of the World Bank, is a document written by economists who treat politics as an inconvenient reality, though it is a thoroughly political document. The 2009 edition of the WDR, Reshaping Economic Geography, is critically discussed here, first, from a geographical disciplinary perspective.
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Indian electoral democracy: The only game in town
The all pervasive importance given to the electoral aspect of formal democracy in India hides the inefficacy of institutions of democracy and governance as they exist today. In some sense, elections are used as tools of legitimation by the ruling classes of policies that are inimical to the interests of the majority who vote. Why is it then that voters vote?
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Drought could be a major issue in Maha polls
VENKATESH KESARI With monsoon playing truant, drought could turn out to be a major issue in the coming Maharashtra Assembly elections