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Empowerment
Poor Data Hamstrings Gender Equity Reporting in India
Achieving gender equity is a major development challenge facing countries such as India. The sex ratio — the ratio of the number of females...
Governance
The Paradox of China–India Relations
Recent relations between China and India have been divided by both security tensions and opposite alliances. But on 25 March, the China–India relationship seems...
Agri-business
India’s Farmers’ Movement Discussed as Pakistan Invites Chinese Agri Business Giant to do Business
There was reference to the farmers’ movement in Indian and of the unrest among fishermen in Balochistan at the meeting between Pakistan's ambassador to...
Features
A Thing (or Two) of Beauty…… in Asia’s Forests
A new publication has distilled evidence of how forests from Cambodia, India, Indonesia, Nepal and Vietnam are the source of ingredients for the global...
Health
WHO, India Sign Deal to Establish Global Centre for Traditional Medicine
Around 80 per cent of the world’s population is estimated to use traditional medicine, that is also increasingly prominent in the world of modern...
Features
Reviving History and the Environment in the City of Djinns and Saints
Nizamuddin Basti, a treasure trove of a 700-year-old living cultural heritage, is being through a renewal project being implemented by the Aga Khan Trust...
Education
India examines medical school costs amid Ukraine exodus
The Indian government recently announced that half of the seats in private medical colleges will have the same charges as their government counterparts. Private...
Education
A Budget that Looks Too Far Into the Future
Social development expenditure and the needs of the people – both prior to COVID-19 but more so during and after the second wave, have...
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Two Challenges Before Microfinance
The rate of interest charged by microfinance institutions is high enough not to allow microfinance to bring about any...
Quakes Do Not Kill People, Bad Buildings Do
The infrastructure surge in the geologically fragile Himalayas is putting people at risk. So are populations in the alluvial...
Human Society is Making the Mistake of Forgetting the Importance of Forests: President Droupadi Murmu
President Droupadi Murmu said that she was confident that the officers of the Indian Forest Service had become completely...
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Two Challenges Before Microfinance
The rate of interest charged by microfinance institutions is...
Quakes Do Not Kill People, Bad Buildings Do
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