Human development report 2023/2024
After a drop in its Human Development Index (HDI) value in 2021 and following a flat trend over the past few years, India’s HDI value has increased to 0.644 in 2022, placing the country 134 out of 193
After a drop in its Human Development Index (HDI) value in 2021 and following a flat trend over the past few years, India’s HDI value has increased to 0.644 in 2022, placing the country 134 out of 193
THE government of India introduced the Constitution (65th Amendment) Bill, 1989, in Parliament in August. The statement of objects and reasons underscored endowing urban local bodies "with such
WOLFGANG Sachs, born in 1946 in Munich, studied theology, sociology and history and taught at the University of Berlin for several years. At the end of the 1970s, he set up a research group called Energy and Society at the Technical University of Berlin,
"For a long time now, we have been calculating the number of people below and above the poverty line. And, these numbers have become a hot political issue. But the important thing is to eradicate
An amateur film brings out the plight of Hyderabad's child brides without making judgements.
Switzerland's request to transfer radioactive fuel for reprocessing has prompted protests and tries US policy on nuclear proliferation.
ANFAN Manch, a documentary on literacy and consciousness-raising efforts in Bihar, was telecast by Doordarshan on the occasion of the Education For All summit held in the Capital in December. The
With the help of the Indian Institute of Technology in Bombay, a premier scientific research organisation, the Patriotic and People-Oriented Science and Technology Foundation (PPST), a science-based
AS PART of its literacy campaign, Bangladesh has started a food for education programme, under which a poor family will get 15 kg of cereal a month if one child goes to school, reports Panos. This
A CONSORTIUM of organisations and individuals is opposing the construction of a hotel in the catchment area of the Kandalama reservoir in Sri Lanka. The consortium is worried the drawing of
Ravaged by ethnic strife, environmental disaster and crushing poverty, Ethiopians anticipate an uncertain future.