Who rules your world?

The Union minister for external affairs says ecology should not be an elitist issue

Experiments with truth

Innovative science teaching scheme relegated to supplementary status

Balarama Digest: Kid stuff?

If you think free publicity, like 'free lunch', is a no-no in this newly liberalised world of ours, you have got it all wrong. Take a dekko at …

Research on thin ice

Lack of coherent research on the melting Gangotri glacier spells disaster

New Snippets

Multidimensional poverty affects 2/3rd of children in rural Nigeria: UNICEF

Larger proportion of children involved in economic labour were multi-dimensionally poor

A political gimmick

When concern for the environment is merely cosmetic, can we hope for a change?

SUNNY DAYS

Healers in arms

The conflict between allopathy and homeopathy is an old one

Poverty, beyond calories

New method finds India is 9 per cent poorer

Law Commission Report on age of consent missed opportunity to de-criminalise sex between minors

The Law Commission’s recommendation would put married girls of 15-18 years at greater risk of marital rape, as there would be no legal …

Amrit kaal for adivasis? What Union Budget 2023-24 does not say about tribal communities

The vision highlighted in the budget speech does not match ground realities

Global supply chains major user of child labour: UN report

Asian region has highest child labour in global supply chains

The right to develop

A UNDP report links democracy with a better human development scenario

UNITED NATIONS

Wooden feet

Education policy for kids under six

Experts say the plan misses diet, care and ignores children with special needs

Midday meal may be outsourced

Schools in Maharashtra do not want responsibility, say the scheme hampers teaching

A complement, not a substitute

Cash transfer is effective only if basic services are in place

NETWORK

Looking ahead

A brief outline of the challenges of sustainable development in India

India slips a rank in UN Human Development Index 2021-22

Global human development stalled for 1st time in 32 years  

Tobacco consumption declines across states, dry Bihar consumes more alcohol than Maharashtra: NFHS-5

Alcohol consumption among women aged 15 years and above highest in north-eastern states

Water beneath our homes

Independence Day 2020: Learning under the shadows of COVID-19

Why education is all the more important in disastrous times