Opinion - Page 771

Access to improved sanitation is a basic amenity. But the 2011 Census revealed that only 31.2 percent of rural households had access to toilet...

What coal has done to community forests in Meghalaya, oil palm seems to be doing in Mizoram. Since 2005, the Mizoram government has been implementing...

The World Trade Organisation (WTO) recently ruled against India’s Domestic Content Requirement (DCR) for setting up solar power plants. Yet, there are...

The recently elected One Nation senator from Queensland, Malcolm Roberts, fervently rejects the established scientific fact that human greenhouse gas...

India’s most regressive, and rigorously practised social system—caste hierarchy—is back in the national spotlight. To recap the current debate, cow...

The Parliament has spoken, the Prime Minister has spoken and almost all the political parties in Jammu and Kashmir and in the country have expressed...

Inexplicably, Narendra Modi has been rather slow in cracking the whip on the violent Sangh Parivar rogues. It took him all of 10 days before he...

Sound and salutary economic logic for once trumped parochial and myopic posturing by major political parties of the country when they all passed the...

The Court of Arbitration for Sport’s suspension of regulations on hyperandrogenism – a medical condition that causes an excessive amount of...

Fertility rates in India are more closely related to education levels and the socio-economic development within a state, than to religious beliefs,...

On the very day the Uttar Pradesh Police claimed that it had solved the case of the gang rape of a Noida woman and her minor daughter on National...

By taking away forest lands for industries and plantation forestry, instead of preserving natural species that provide livelihood to these people, the...