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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De-recognise BJP, Jamuna Devi tells EC
Party in the dock for accepting donation from Dow Chemical BHOPAL: The Leader of Opposition in the Madhya Pradesh Assembly, Jamuna Devi, has written to the Election Commission asking that Bharatiya Janata Party be de-recognised because it had accepted donation from Dow Chemical International Private Limited, the Indian subsidiary of Dow Chemical that now owns Union Carbide, which was responsible for the 1984 Bhopal gas disaster.
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Activists to request CAG for special audit of Jharkhand
To stage dharna outside Jharkhand Bhavan on June 20 Expresses concern over protection of those conducting surveys, social audits NEW DELHI: Several members of the Central Employment Guarantee Council who had demanded a Central Bureau of Investigation enquiry into the murder of social activist Lalit Mehta at Palamau in Jharkhand and questioned the role of the State Government in the NREGA works in Jharkhand have devised their next step to take their movement forward.
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Activists seek CBI probe into social worker's murder
NEW DELHI: More than 100 eminent people from different walks of life have come together to condemn violence on social activists in Jharkhand and demand a CBI probe into the killing of Lalit Mehta and the widespread corruption in the implementation of the National Rural Employment Guarantee Programme. They have also criticised the report of the district administration of Palamau for its "baseless allegations' regarding Lalit Mehta's killing and the "callous' attitude of the State in dealing with corruption in the implementation of this programme.
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The Party and the Panchayats of West Bengal
Despite substantial decentralisation of power through panchayati raj institutions in West Bengal, the presence of an entrenched centralised party in power in the state has meant the use of such institutions as instruments of patronage. Violent battles have invariably taken place during panchayat elections, as these are seen as necessary by all political parties to capture or retain hold over the institutions.
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Opinion - When will they learn?
It is true that any hike in oil prices will have a cascading effect through enhanced transport costs. But planned price increases are better managed and more equitable than inflation The Supreme Court view that the creamy layer concept can only be abandoned when and if more than 50 per cent of the community in question attains graduate status is fallacious. Few countries in the world, not excluding the most advanced, can boast such levels
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Whither the subaltern domain? An ethnographic enquiry
Decentralisation of power and the institution of the panchayati raj system in West Bengal have been expected to aid the disappearance of subalternity (or a state of powerlessness) by way of caste, class and gender. On the contrary, an ethnographic investigation in a village panchayat reveals that divisions between the elite and the subaltern continue to exist in a complex form despite grassroots democracy in the state.
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Polepally protesters sway poll outcome
P. Sainath The farmers contesting the Jadcherla seat helped to defeat the sitting MLA. The Jadcherla 13, of whom eight are seen in the picture, succeeded in lowering the votes of the main parties. They made history by standing as 13 independent candidates fighting the same Assembly seat but contesting for, not against, one another. They did it again on Sunday
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The political economy of urban water in India and Southeast Asia
This report compares the performance of urban water bureaucracies in 21 major cities in India with 18 major cities across Southeast Asia using survey data and political economy analyses. It finds that water bureaucracies in Southeast Asia are substantially more effective and efficient compared with those in India.
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Fuel prices delay emissions trading in New Zealand
In the face of skyrocketing petrol prices, the New Zealand government has said that it would delay the introduction of a new petrol rates under the emissions trading scheme (ets) for two years.
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His government's agency
A survey by a scientific advocacy group has revealed that the George W Bush administration has frequently meddled with scientists at the us Environmental Protection Agency (epa). The Union of