The story of 114 Odisha villages becoming child-marriage free begins with a small victory in Rugudipali

The villagers have also created an enabling environment for adolescents so that they can continue their education

Don't hold digital trade talks in WTO: Civil society groups call on governments

Developing countries must come up with their own agenda for digital industrialisation instead of advancing ones by tech giants, say …

‘Reason to hope’, says global report on civil society

It says that even as democratic values are being encroached upon globally, there are acts of peaceful resistance by civil society

Left sees red over Marx copyright

A small publisher of Collected Works has run afoul of Marxists by asserting copyright

You can count the tiger

Civil society organisations should count on their huge social capital and invest it into future actions

Civil society organisations are often targets of political interference and manipulation, which can limit their ability to operate

NFHS-5: How did Indian states fare in the internet usage question?

The results show huge disparities in terms of gender as far as internet usage is concerned

When wasteland bears fruits

Chikapalli Anasuyamma has transformed over two dozen wastelands into forests in Telangana

67 elephants died in Odisha in last nine months

Poaching, train accidents and electrocution killed more than half of these elephants, says Wildlife Society of Odisha

Green lore

Environment has been intrinsic to our oral traditions much before we developed writing. But it is only in the past decade or two that …

On the trail of a man-eater

Ankur Paliwal visits Moradabad district where a tigress is on the prowl to find out why she took to killing humans

Science and Technology - Briefs

Yule — A celebration of the return of light and warmth

Yule is celebrated by Wiccans and many other Pagans in the Northern Hemisphere on December 21

Uttarakhand tribal community bound to bonded labour

World's biggest physics meet cancelled amid COVID-19 fears

The American Physical Society was scheduled to meet in Denver, Colarado on March 2-6, 2020  

‘Wildlife usage must be based on sound science and adaptive management’

Susan Lieberman, Vice President, International Policy, Wildlife Conservation Society, spoke about the highlights of the ongoing CMS CoP

‘Telecom industry did no research on health impacts of 5G’

India plans to begin 5G trials by 2020, but experts and industry stand at odds over its impact on human health and environment. The fifth …

US Congress passes tribal sovereignty act

Law will restore Native American leaders’ control over employee-employer relations on American-Indian lands

You have the right to remain silent

Reflecting upon the state of freedom of speech and expression in India, in the wake of the shut-down of the political satire website …

A forest guard’s life is tough

Conserving biodiversity at the ground is different from buzzwords of today’s conservation science

Annihilation of caste and copyright claims

Ambedkar’s works have been published widely and yet pose a copyright conundrum

Civil society survey claims welfare schemes halted after Rajasthan government change

Almost 4,000 people in 16 parliamentary constituencies surveyed

World Consumer Rights Day: Know your digital rights

Some immediete steps: Skip the skip button, the quick log-in economy  

Olive Ridleys return to lay eggs at Rushikulya after skipping a year

Around 250,000 turtles have come ashore for mass nesting this year, say officials

National-level multi-state co-operative organic society: Can it help improve farm income?

Overall, the proposed society will provide a wide range of organic farming-related services; however, key details are missing at the moment