'Natural disasters are shaped by social and economic inequality'
Down To Earth speaks to historian Ben Kingsbury, who, in his book An Imperial Disaster: The Bengal Cyclone of 1876, says natural disasters are …
सूखे का दंश : सूखाग्रस्त जिलों से ही पूरी होगी खाद्यान्न आत्मनिर्भरता
भारत में पिछले 40 सालों से बुवाई का क्षेत्र स्थिर है। खाद्यान्न की मांग को पूरा करने के लिए सूखाग्रस्त क्षेत्रों में उत्पादन बढ़ाना ...
15 साल में धरती का 35,204 वर्ग किमी वन क्षेत्र कम हुआ
रिपोर्ट में कहा गया है कि बढ़ती आबादी के दबाव और गरीबी के कारण भूमि क्षेत्र में बदलाव देखने को मिल रहे हैं
Desertification: Planet’s tree-covered areas fell by 35,204 sq km in 15 years
Countries party to the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification meet to review the first global land degradation assessment
A political thought for food
Global parliamentarians are forming a multilateral body to reform the agrifood system
क्या 50 लाख साल बाद, जल संकट से होने वाले पलायन से फिर जूझ रही है दुनिया?
लाखों साल पहले पूर्वी अफ्रीका में पड़े सूखे ने हमारे पूर्वजों को जल समृद्ध स्थानों में पलायन के लिए बाध्य कर दिया था। तभी ...
The lure of 10 million jobs a year
Employment in agriculture has increased. Will it lead to shed the belief that agriculture will not be able to employ further?
African swine fever: Ripple effect across the world
Small farms in Asia are the worst hit by the outbreak, while global pork and feed markets fluctuate with fall and rise in China’s pig numbers
Modi’s COVID-19 vaccine turnaround: An answer for Supreme Court queries just in time
The bench of judges Chandrachud, Rao and Bhat have already asked the Union government to review the vaccination policy and file an affidavit by …
Will electoral compulsions force govt to use muscular tech?
Display of technological power is being identified as a valid political tool to galvanise public sentiment
Education, infrastructure saving grace for top districts: NITI Aayog report
Top performing districts still lag behind in development parameters like health and nutrition
India’s criminal wastage: over 10 million works under MGNREGA incomplete or abandoned
Since April 2014, the rate of work completion has been declining at rapid pace, indicating that crucial assets for villages are not getting created
Panchayati Raj Day: Pandemic and the panchayats
Prime Minister Narendra Modi says: ‘We need to learn more from how villages manage COVID-19 pandemic than from cities’
आर्थिक मंदी: गरीबी दूर होगी बशर्ते…...
व्यावसायिक समूह के जरिए कर चोरी के कारण सरकारों को 200 अरब डॉलर से 600 अरब डॉलर तक का नुकसान हो सकता है
आर्थिक सर्वे में मिले आम बजट के 5 बड़े संकेत
साल 2016-17 के आर्थिक सर्वेक्षण ने देश में रोजगारहीन विकास को एक प्रमुख चुनौती करार दिया है
आर्थिक सर्वे में मिले आम बजट के 5 संकेत
साल 2016-17 के आर्थिक सर्वेक्षण ने देश में रोजगारहीन विकास क…
Presidential panchayat
India's third-tier of government has a few lessons for those seeking presidential form of government
New leader, old challenge
India’s first PM born after Independence will face the old problem of poverty eradication
Foodgrains risk rot
No place to store seven million tonnes of procured foodgrains
Employment enigma: India’s high rate of self-employment gets reflected as a decrease in unemployment rate
The number of self-employed has increased in India, a trend usually seen in poor and developing countries with low per capita income
War-Pandemic: World is poorer now; will double its poverty level on the target year of eradication
Poverty is getting concentrated and chronic in sub-Saharan Africa and rural areas
Is COVID-19 containable
The coronavirus pandemic now rivals lifestyle diseases in its spread
‘Accelerating exodus from farming key to achieve target of doubling income’
To double farmers’ income reduce the number of farmers, suggest policy makers
GDP obsession
If the growth rate is so great, why are the poor not getting a taste of it?
Saraswati underground
Experts attempt to map the mythical river's palaeo-channels and put them to good use