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,
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Identity and exclusion in India's cities
The dark side of urban development is generating tensions of the kind that recently surfaced in Mumbai. (Editorial) Feb 16-22, 2008
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SC for socialism
The Supreme Court of India on January 8, 2008, refused to accede to a pil plea seeking deletion of the word
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Indo US nuclear deal debated in Rajya Sabha
after nine hours of debate on the India- usa nuclear deal in the Rajya Sabha, the position of the Left and the opposition parties remained the same. They made it clear that their stand had not
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Left firm, PM hopeful on nuclear deal
The latest upa-Left meeting on India-us nuclear deal on October 22 did not head anywhere. The deal continues to remain in limbo: being either termed "dead' or in "deep freeze'. Both Prime
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Discussing Indo US nuke deal
Book>> The Indo-US Nuclear Deal, A Reference Compilation
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Striving for a balance: Nature, power, science and India's Indira Gandhi, 1917-1984
<p>Indira Gandhi’s life (1917–1984) spanned much of the twentieth century. She was Prime Minister of the world’s largest democracy for two spells that totaled fi fteen years. To this
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UP voters ask candidates for assembly election to take test
The recently completed assembly polls in Uttar Pradesh witnessed an unprecedented public practise. In the drought-stricken Bundelkhand region, voters asked the candidates to take a written test on
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Down To Earth completes 15 years
having just completed 15 years of publication, our first duty is to thank those readers who've been with us from our first issue of May 31, 1992. They have sustained us and given us meaning. They
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Public, Congress demand emission laws in US
The us Congress is finally taking climate change seriously, with the Democrats, who are in control, reversing the existing policy of denial. The change has galvanised environmental groups. Business
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Ticket to ride
in 1933, Adolf Hitler met with the car baron Ferdinand Porsche to discuss the idea of a car that could carry 5 people, cruise up to 40 km an hour, return around 12 km a litre, and cost only 1,000