What has been the impact of the rainfall deficiency on agriculture?
All major Kharif crops except sugarcane and cotton have exhibited lower sowing as of 25th July than the normal sowing for this corresponding week each year. The report states that…
State-by-state — supply of piped water in villages
Gujarat, with 78.46% of its 64,77,917 rural households being provided water through taps at present, has the highest penetration under the National Rural Drinking Water Programme (NRDWP), a reply tabled…
This Kerala man is on a greening mission and has planted 8,000 trees
The vaga tree in S Ayappan’s house in Eroor is exactly 15 years and eight months old. He knows the precise date because he planted it on his son’s first…
Let’s talk about climate change
Eight countries in the EU have proposed spending 25% of the EU budget on climate change. The African Development Bank has announced the tripling of its climate financing to reach…
Making national legislatures more gender-balanced
Context: The Global Gender Gap report for 2018 said that the widest gender disparity is in the field of political empowerment. To cite the Inter-Parliamentary Union 2018 report, women legislators…
Public spending on health
Context: Jammu and Kashmir and Assam spent the largest fraction of their Gross State Domestic Product (GSDP) on public health, according to National Health Accounts Estimates 2015-16, the Ministry of…
Self-care interventions for health
The WHO has launched its first guidelines on self-care interventions for health. As per an estimate by 2035 the world will face a shortage of nearly 13 million healthcare workers. Currently at least…
Building toilets won’t make India open defecation free: World Bank study
Introduction: A World Bank (WB) research in India has concluded that merely building toilets won’t stop Indians from defecating in the open as long as their attitudes towards latrines do…
Given the state of affairs, what can a bureaucrat do?
Karl Marx had wished the state to wither away. It hasn’t. Even in the countries where Marxism was purported to have been practised, the state became more and more powerful,…
Climate Economics
The economics of climate changeis straightforward. When we burn fossil fuels, we inadvertently emit CO2 into the atmosphere, and this leads to many potentially harmful impacts. Such a process is…