Sensitive economics

Anil Agarwal's article, "The poverty of Amartya Sen", publised in the December 15, 1999 issue of Down To Earth , has drawn a number of …

Bridging the gap: a school below Delhi Metro line

Waking up to the horrors of child labour

Several groups are working among child workers in India, seeking to improve their working and living conditions

In AID(S) of the dying

To tackle the killer disease ravaging South Africa, the government's health policy will have to undergo a drastic change

Rat chronicles

The tiny rodents that most people link only to pestilence and crop destruction have fascinated Ishwar Prakash -- one of that rare breed: a rat …

कोरोना महामारी के चलते शिक्षा से वंचित रह जाएंगी दक्षिण एशिया में 45 लाख बच्चियां

यूनिसेफ, विश्व स्वास्थ्य संगठन (डब्लूएचओ) और यूएनएफपीए ने संयुक्त रूप से एक रिपोर्ट जारी की है

संसद में आज: महाराष्ट्र के अलावा कहीं नहीं हुई प्रवासी श्रमिकों की मौत

सर्वेक्षण के अनुसार, बिहार में, महिला श्रमिकों की आबादी केवल 4 प्रतिशत है।

Scholarships alone are not enough to get more qualified female teachers into Nigeria’s schools

UNICEF estimates that over half of all girls are not in school in the north while under a third of all primary school teachers are women

Has Dharavi Model made us lose sight of its real problems

COVID-19 pandemic will pass one day. But what about hunger, unemployment, loss of education and stigma

साल के अंत तक 8.6 करोड़ बच्चों को गरीबी में धकेल देगा कोरोनावायरस

कोरोना महामारी से आए आर्थिक संकट के चलते पहले से गरीबी का बोझ ढो रहे बच्चों की संख्या बढ़कर 67.2 करोड़ हो सकती है

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पहला पेशा, अंतिम मौका

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माओवादियों से इतर बस्तर

हिंसा के भय को भूल भी जाएं तो दंडकारण्य में शिक्षा और स्वास्थ्य की स्थिति बेहद चिंताजनक है

Congress manifesto promises jobs, welfare steps

Five focus areas include: Unemployment, poverty, farm distress, access to quality education and healthcare

Infant mortality, youth unemployment among top exclusion factors in North Africa

Political instability and conflict have contributed significantly to exacerbate inequalities among some regions

Nightmare festivals

There is growing concern over the pollution caused by festivals like Diwali

Who rules your world?

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

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 …

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Enable the poor

Book>> Challenging the injustice of poverty • by Rehman Sobhan • sage • Rs 699

Modi’s burden of civilising rural India

Our prime minister’s recognition of ‘uncivilised’ state of rural India means he should be spending more on ‘civilising&…

Our country, our mess

How's India doing in providing basic social services?

Messiahs to rural folk

A few individuals are trying to bring about changes at the grassroots level through dedicated and sustained work

Experiments with truth

Innovative science teaching scheme relegated to supplementary status

Research on thin ice

Lack of coherent research on the melting Gangotri glacier spells disaster