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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Power to the people
West Bengal's villagers will not only set the development agenda they will also correct defects in the panchayat system.
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Will women in panchayats change Bengal?
West Bengal is making what could be another step towards village self rule, where villagers, including women, will decide what is best for them, but hunger for power and male hegemony may set things back.
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A voice for the silent majority
THE 73RD Constitution Amendment, yet to be ratified by the requisite number of state governments, holds within it the potential for a passive revolution in the Indian countryside. For not only does
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Masterly exploration of the state of Earth
AL GORE being elected vice-president of the US has delighted environmentalists elsewhere, for unlike his predecessor Dan Quayle, who once spelt potato with an "e" at the end in a schoolroom
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A reluctant candidate for Chile's presidency
Meet Manfred Max Neef. Pianist, economist, eco humanist and politician from Chile, all rolled into one. Internationally acclaimed for his concept of "human scale development", Max Neef concludes traditional development models have failed. Green party cand
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How many trees for a political tamasha?
Tamil Nadu chief minister Jayalalitha Jayaram's self boosting extravaganza in Madurai has cost the nation an estimated 40,000 litres of precious diesel besides other less easily computable natural resources such as wood for posters, cutouts and barricades
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South Asia
Petrol price hiked again: Pakistan
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News 360 - Briefs
democracy Zimbabwe
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effluents spur boycott: Farmers from Kuppam village in Tamil Nadu's Karur district have declared a boycott of the assembly elections, scheduled for May 8-10, 2006. They allege that effluents from
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The green goblins
Only those industrial processes, which are almost non polluting should be reserved for the small scale sector