Look the other way

One year of NDA government: Development Modi-fied

A factual appraisal of how the Narendra Modi government performed in its first year

Food security Act: Centre to share half the burden of states in food transportation and handling

Fair price shop dealers to get incentive for use of point of sale (PoS) devices

Panchayat members in Bihar to get protection from frivolous court cases

Minister’s nod will be needed for initiating legal action against mukhiyas

Nod to Dibang project shows why present forest clearance process needs to be scrapped

Persisting with the current institutional arrangement will do more harm than good

“For tribals, panchayatiraj has not helped”

As told to Parliament (February 8, 2024): 605 people killed in human-elephant conflict in 2022-23

All that was discussed in the House through the day

Kalahandi’s Kutia Kondhs: Subsistence a struggle for this tribe of nature worshippers

Despite living in abject poverty and depending on natural resources for survival, the Kondhs do not use wood from the forests for fuel and also …

International Women’s Day: 4 Black women who have advanced human rights

Their work has improved the health and welfare of women and girls, protected the environment and elevated the voices of the oppressed

Ceasing to be a citizen?

Excluson of four million people from Assam's draft National Citizen Registry has created panic among the inhabitants

Philately and wild India

Through the years, Indian stamps have featured local flora and fauna in varying degrees. Here is an overview

The young, old and an unequal world

Younger, meaner, more self-indulgent, angry and insecure in a climate risked world. We don’t deserve this

Swachh Bharat Mission: other name for coercion and deprivation

What started as a campaign to make India open defecation free, has now taken shape of a cocercive policy of shaming people for not using toilets, …

Concern for increasing population in India just a political rhetoric

India’s population will soon stabilise, but the government is just not noticing the facts

Video: Cabinet clears formation of National Medical Commission

The new commission’s responsibilities will include, approving and assessing medical colleges, conducting a common entrance for MBBS courses …

Crisis management

Jared Diamond’s latest book espouses that nations can come out of a crisis just the way people do

Doctors under attack: Govt, IMA must create safe work environment

After Kolkata, such an attack took place in Delhi’s Lok Nayak Jai Prakash Narayan hospital on July 7, 2019 and this too led to strikes

Goa’s first white paper on livelihood can help in effective state planning

Prepared by Goa Livelihoods Forum, the paper calls for the state to achieve development in the lines of the United Nation’s sustainable …

Language gap in policy making needs bridging

For active participation of tribal communities in policy dialogues, subaltern language are indispensable

Bill in Connecticut aims to stop sale of harmful cosmetics banned in EU

Many of the chemicals banned in the European Union are still used in the US in products ranging from toothpaste to shampoo and fruit juices to cheese

It's not just jobs, but good jobs that the unemployed need

People don’t just want jobs, but good ones that are stable, are in the formal-sector, have safe working conditions, collective bargaining …

Sedition: Anti-national abuse

Most developed countries have repealed sedition laws. But India continues with this colonial law, only to help the government suffocate dissent

No money to fix leaky roofs, MGNREGS workers in West Bengal fear upcoming monsoon

The Centre has blocked the state’s funds for the rural employment scheme for over a year, jeopardising the economic conditions of …

Will Biden dare to use march-in rights?

Health advocates are asking Washington to use laws that allow patent override on drugs developed with public funds

How Chandni and her friends scripted the saga to success

On this Independence Day, let’s recount the story of a girl from Samastipur whose idea of a free India was much different from reality