Use data on parliamentary constituencies to fight malnutrition: Harvard study
The focus on PCs can bring a greater degree of accountability to policy vision and implementation since lawmakers are directly responsible for …
Verdict 2024: Odisha’s women may have helped tilt scales in state against BJD, say experts
Women have long been a BJD vote bank; but excessive campaigning by BJP in addition to poll promises may have influenced female voters to go saffron
DTE Coverage: Agenda for new government
The new government must rebuild trust by being tolerant to ideas, opinions and information
A vocal for local verdict
PM Modi’s performance on the most important issues of unemployment, price rise and dipping income didn’t reflect the slogan he had …
Simply Put: Fake calls
Simply Put: Lok Sabha Elections 2024
Simply Put: Poll manifesto
As told to Parliament (December 21, 2023): Labour force indicators in 2022-23 are better than pre-COVID period
All that was discussed in the House through the day
As told to Parliament (February 8, 2021): Indo-Gangetic plains have high air pollution levels
Little to debate: Our lawmakers hardly ask questions on the environment
In the past 10 years, Parliamentarians asked 132,606 questions in Lok Sabha. Of these, a little over 12 per cent questions were on environment …
Environment in elections: Will climate change alter voting dynamics in Ladakh?
Scientists, journalists and others are confident that warning signs in the cold desert & Sonam Wanghchuk’s fast have made environment a …
Neuroscience can explain why voting is so often driven by emotion
Politics is a bare-knuckle fight, and our brains reflect that. Evolution has conditioned us to be driven by fear when we are under threat. We …
New Government’s Agenda: Think long-term
India needs continued emphasis on flagship programmes, aligned to long-term planning that focusses on water security and circular economy in a …
New Government’s Agenda: Overhaul overdue
Hold polluting industries accountable for public health risks, environmental hazards, climate change; provide them support for green transition
Environment in elections: Drought not on poll agenda even as north Karnataka records 3rd-lowest rainfall in over 100 years
Region’s people feel things can’t remain same even as other parts of Karnataka have no water problems
Simply Put: Environment in elections
As told to Parliament (March 16, 2023): There are 2,967 tigers in India
As told to Parliament (February 7, 2023): 184,447 cattle died due to Lumpy Skin Disease in 2022-23
As told to Parliament (December 13, 2021): Sea level along Indian coast rising at 1.7 mm/year
As told to Parliament (November 29, 2021): Industries contribute up to a third of Delhi’s pollution
As told to Parliament (March 15, 2021): Government issues standard operating procedure for tiger rehabilitation
DTE Coverage: CAG reports released during monsoon session of Parliament 2023
Audits by Comptroller and Auditor General once again throw light on goings-on in Indian governance
What is the Forest Conservation (Amendment) Bill passed by Parliament?
Experts have expressed concerns about the impact of the Bill on indigenous, forest communities and prevention of deforestation
Bills not sent to any committee in ‘productive’ Parliament session
The five Bills that were scrutinised by some or the other committee were not introduced in the current session
From South India to Trump’s election: the happy marriage of stardom and politics
The 3 star CMs of South India had poor human rights record, but populist measures, often with more symbolic value than economic