Government mulls new law to confiscate assets of tax evaders

Simply put: The hat-trick

Simply put: Diagnosing the State

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

More government, less governance

Environment versus development: 2014 sets the stage for bitter polarisation

Panchayat members in Bihar to get protection from frivolous court cases

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

Insurance schemes beyond the reach of poor

“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

What will its first far-right leader since WWII mean for Italy?

Right-wing coalition led by Giorgia Meloni looks on course to secure at least 230 of the 400 seats in the Lower House, giving it a clear majority

Liz Truss: who is the UK’s new prime minister and why has she replaced Boris Johnson?

Truss’s brand of economic libertarianism, political optimism and hawkishness proved decisive in the 2022 leadership contest

Pitfalls in a promise: Rajasthan’s urban income security efforts throw up new challenges

The state’s attempt to provide income security to urban poor shows challenges of designing a wage guarantee scheme for towns and cities

Over 50 million job cards of MGNREGA workers deleted in 2022-23; 7.4 million this financial year

Names are deleted without the knowledge of workers or following proper procedure, claim activists

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

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Most developed countries have repealed sedition laws.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

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

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

One person is killed every month in India defending the environment

There were 164 such killing across the world in 2018, according to a report by non-profit Global Witness

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

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