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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Petty decision
the newly-elected Punjab chief minister Prakash Singh Badal's move to provide free irrigation water and electricity to farmers will only harm the economy and the environment, without helping those
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Bureaucratic bargains
according to an eminent agricultural scientist, when he first entered Krishi Bhavan (the headquarters of the agri culture ministry in New Delhi), an Indian Administrative Service officer who used
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Anti-corruption crusades
Corruption, whether the high level variety or its more pervasive low level counterpart, is related to the lack of transparency and accountability in the governance system
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Oh, captain!
Retired captain Jai Narain Prasad Nishad, 66, minister of state for environment and forests, still looks every inch a soldier, wearing his 20 years in both the Army and the Navy with pride. And
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Water of contention
In the 1996 ninth general elections in India, water as an issue figured prominently in at least nine states. Among them all, Nalgonda in the Telengana region in Andhra Pradesh takes the cake.
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Beyond home
Bill Clinton's absence from the Copenhagen summit on social development underscores the post Cold War parochialism that has gripped the American world vision
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Impolitic moves
The recent Cabinet shake up could spell trouble for India on the eco conservation front
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SOUTH AFRICA
After overcoming the trials and tribulations engendered by apart heid, South Africa has turned its attention to an issue of equality that transcends race: empowering women to play an active role
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Filthy lucre
US's Democrats and Republicans break common bread over the fairness, or otherwise, of the Regulatory Reform Bill that could make industry accountable for the phenomenal fouling of America
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Women in power
Women elected to panchayats in Karnataka and Rajasthan function in two ways: some live up to expectations and other succumb to the pressures