With many reports confirming women and other socially-disadvantaged sections have suffered the most during the pandemic, economists at BofA Securities
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With many reports confirming women and other socially-disadvantaged sections have suffered the most during the pandemic, economists at BofA Securities
Continue readingWhile several commentators have highlighted the plight of migrants due to the ongoing Covid-19 crisis, less is known about how
Continue readingThere are more than a million women elected to the Panchayati Raj Institutions of local governance in India. Despite constitutional
Continue readingLike father, like son? The economic impacts of political dynasties in India Political dynasties remain ubiquitous in democratic countries even
Continue readingRethinking cadre allocation procedures in civil services The allocation procedure of All-India Services’ officers to states is an important aspect
Continue readingIndian households waste 50 kg of food per person per year, says UNEP The latest Food Waste Index Report, released
Continue readingCritical scrutiny of the challenges of electoral democracy including elite capture, corruption, and patronage has led to a revival of
Continue readingIn the context of the 2017 Uttar Pradesh state assembly elections, a voter information experiment was conducted across more than
Continue readingMeasuring how well major public programmes are implemented remains a core governance challenge. With the increasing mobile-phone penetration in the
Continue readingBihar IPS officer: Need ministry for backward among upper castes A SENIOR serving IPS officer of Bihar cadre has called
Continue readingCOVID-19 will fundamentally transform the world as we know it: the world order, its balance of power, traditional conceptions of national
Continue readingThe Covid-19 epidemic is not the proverbial ‘elephant in the room’ but a ‘black elephant’ event ‘The Coronavirus is the
Continue readingIn the first phase of the covid-19 pandemic, most countries tried to starve the disease of the oxygen it needed
Continue readingThe Centre has said that the top court by its judgement in the Navtej Singh Johar case only decriminalised a
Continue readingHow Supreme Court’s Sabarimala verdict differs with Ayodhya order In Adelaide Co. of Jehovah’s Witnesses Inc. v Commonwealth (1943), Australia’s
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