The Rice Paradox More than one billion people in India depend on rice fields for their sustenance. They also are becoming one of the most intractable climate issues on earth. The same flooded and glistening paddies that contribute to food security and export economics are also extracting a greenhouse gas – one that is 25…
India’s tiger population has increased significantly, from 2,967 in 2018 to 3,682 in 2022. But beyond the success of tiger recovery lies a harder question: can India protect wildlife while ensuring dignified livelihoods for communities living around tiger landscapes?
New AISHE data by the Press Information Bureau show record growth in universities, enrolment and gender parity over the past decade — but faculty representation, caste and tribal proportionality, and disability access have not kept pace. India’s higher education system expanded faster in the decade to 2023-24 than in almost any comparable period since independence,…
Someone, somewhere, says, “Let me try again,” and behind every recovery is that moment. For Simhon a 26-year-old Scheduled Tribe beneficiary from Karbi Anglong district of Assam, that moment came after years of personal struggle. Simhon had received an education up to intermediate level and had once aspired to join the police service — a…
Puducherry has received three fisheries infrastructure projects worth ₹36.49 crore under PMMSY, including upgrades to Nallavadu Fish Landing Centre and Thengaithittu Fishing Harbour, along with a seaweed innovation centre in Karaikal.
No bill dedicated to infant abandonment has ever reached Parliament, but India already has three real levers to force the issue into the open: a Zero Hour intervention, already used once at the state level; a Private Member’s Bill, the same mechanism that built India’s child-institution law twice before; and a Public Interest Litigation, the…
Time to Reimagine Elder Care, Dignity and Inclusion India is undergoing one of the most profound demographic transformations in its history. For decades, we have celebrated the demographic dividend of a young nation. Today, however, another equally significant reality is unfolding before us, the rapid growth of the elderly population. Ageing is no longer a…
India’s Department of Telecommunications (DoT) recovered 77,692 lost or stolen mobile handsets in July, the first time the citizen-facing Sanchar Saathi platform has reached 75,000 recoveries in a single month since its launch in May 2023, the Ministry of Communications reported on August 28 via Press Information Bureau. Union Communications Minister Jyotiraditya M. Scindia attributed…
Development work in India often moves in cycles of enthusiasm: a project launches with fanfare, runs for three to five years, and quietly winds down when the grant ends. Sambandh, a non-profit based in Bhubaneswar, has taken the opposite approach since it began in 1992, treating community development in Odisha as a multi-decade commitment rather…
The newly notified MPD-2047 leans on transit-led density and in-situ slum rehabilitation to house a capital projected to cross 3.2 crore people by 2047 — reviving equity questions that outlasted two earlier master plans. NEW DELHI: The Union Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs notified the Master Plan for Delhi 2047 (MPD-2047) on August 20…
