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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Politically correct
A motley crowd of around 100 people
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Voters retaliate with boycott
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 are as peeved as fishers in the Tamil Nadu-Andhra Pradesh border
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Angry voters
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 shower rose, a banana. They labelled him
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Anti-Posco activists win polls, no threat to project
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
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TP member obstructing implementation of NREGS
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.
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The Maoists, elections, boycotts and violence
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?
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CRZ issue: fishermen eagerly wait for politicians to fulfill promises
They promised them the sky during the fortnight long hectic election campaign along Salcete
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Beedi workers of Jangipur hold key
Indrani Dutta Villagers are affected by poverty, malnutrition, high infant-mortality rates and chronic ailments
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The two waves of service-sector growth
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.
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Securing a sustainable future in the Arctic
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.