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

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

“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

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

No money to fix leaky roofs, MGNREGS workers in West Bengal fear upcoming monsoon

The Centre has blocked the state’s funds for the rural employment scheme for over a year, jeopardising the economic conditions of …

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

Will Biden dare to use march-in rights?

Health advocates are asking Washington to use laws that allow patent override on drugs developed with public funds

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

Kalahandi’s Kutia Kondhs: Subsistence a struggle for this tribe of nature worshippers

Despite living in abject poverty and depending on natural resources for survival, the Kondhs do not use wood from the forests for fuel and also …

Poverty eradication, a top priority or not?

On World Poverty eradication Day, here’s a lowdown on the recent developments in poverty eradication in the world

Why is transgender community unhappy with Trans Persons Bill?

They call August 5, 2019, the day Lok Sabha passed the Transgender Persons (Protection of Rights) Bill, as ‘Gender Justice Murder Day’

Israel elections: Who women vote for and how it's shifting

Will having a woman, who is also secular and leading a right-wing religious alliance for the first time, affect Israeli voting patterns?

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 …