Editorial – Health Watch – Policies to mitigate malnutrition in India !!!

2017-01-31T03:37:58+05:30By |Categories: Editorials, Society|Tags: |

As per the ‘State of the World‘s Children 2015’ report published by United Nations International Children Emergency Fund (UNICEF), the level of children who are underweight, stunted and wasted are 44, 48 and 20 per cent respectively. However, this Report is based on 2005-06 data of National Family Health Survey-III [...]

Editorial – Society Watch – Bastar beyond Maoists: tale of a rich region and its poor people !!!

2017-01-31T03:38:12+05:30By |Categories: Editorials, Society|Tags: |

For all of us in the 21st century, Bastar is a landscape of forests, tribals and a bloody battleground for security forces and the armed insurgents known as Maoists. One way, it is a landscape of perceptions. Unless one ventures into this area in Chhattisgarh. From Jagdalpur to Dantewada, the road [...]

Editorial – History Watch – After 100yrs of Champaran !!!

2017-01-31T03:38:50+05:30By |Categories: Editorials, History|Tags: |

Gandhi’s movement, a century ago, was a political campaign operating in a more hostile environment than today’s. Yet it brought lasting reform without alienating the opposition Our nationalist mythology has painted the Champaran movement as an outright revolt against an oppressive colonial government and business interests. But in fact, there [...]

Daily Current Events – 11 Jan 2017

2017-01-12T07:47:26+05:30By |Categories: Daily Current Events|

World Bank cuts India’s FY17 growth forecast to 7% The World Bank has lowered its growth forecast for India to 7 per cent from 7.6 per cent in 2016-17, citing a slowdown in consumption and manufacturing due to demonetisation and an ongoing decline in private investment and credit constraints due [...]

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