Governance

Israel elections: Who women vote for and how it's shifting

Will having a woman, who is also secular and leading a right-wing religious alliance for the first time, affect Israeli voting patterns?

Governance

Nudge for better policy results, but cautiously

Nudge, as a tool, is often criticised because it rests on the fundamental premise of ‘libertarian paternalism’

Governance

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

Governance

Odisha's mines may power the country, but what about its people?

Mining has not yielded commensurate dividends to life in Odisha

Governance

Mt Everest: Overcrowding at the top of the world must be regulated

Nepal needs to be proactive in safeguarding the tourism industry centred around Mount Everest

Governance

RTI amendment: Usurping powers from Legislature and States

The National Democratic Alliance government's move is an assault on the independence of information commissioners, writes former Central Information Commissioner M Sridhar Acharyulu

Governance

State apathy caused a differently abled teen to starve to death in Odisha

A member of a fact-finding team writes about how the 17-year-old and his sister struggled to make ends meet before they couldn’t

Governance

‘Accelerating exodus from farming key to achieve target of doubling income’

To double farmers’ income reduce the number of farmers, suggest policy makers

Governance

Ode to politics of consensus: Sheila Dikshit

It would be really unfortunate if we let the Sheila Dikshit way of politics go out of fashion

Governance

Delhi’s pavements: Paved with good intentions

The pavements of the national capital are used for all activities other than walking

Governance

Is child protection a priority in the public budget?

Well-designed interventions for prevention, protection, response & rehabilitation can help India reach the ideal of a comprehensive protective environment for children

Governance

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

Governance

The Indian stray dog debate: Nobody is looking at the pets

The Animal Welfare Board of India’s ABC policy ignores pets and randomly vaccinates and sterilises some homeless dogs. This policy has failed so spectacularly that the board has invented ‘street/Indian/community’ dogs that are supposedly meant to live on the streets anyway

Governance

One Nation, One Ration Card and the hurdles ahead

While this scheme would bring perceptible changes to the lives of India’s internal migrant workers, challenges lie ahead in designing and implementing it

Governance

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

Governance

How the West is withdrawing into a bunker of its own making

A chronic state of emergency now infects border politics in the West. But our view of how this has come to pass is too narrow

Governance

Is America redeeming itself vis-à-vis its First Nations?

The country appointed its first Native American poet laureate and apologised for the genocide of aborigines in its largest and richest state on June 19, 2019

Governance

A case for India’s stray dogs

Sterilising and vaccinating the dogs who live in our communities effectively and humanely controls their population, prevents rabies and reduces human-dog conflicts

Governance

Decoding Prime Minister Modi’s second win

There is convincing evidence to suggest that Mr. Modi benefits from the well-oiled troll machine of the BJP and the power of social media

Governance

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 development model

Governance

Language gap in policy making needs bridging

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