This lacuna consists in their looking at poverty as arising from an absence of development rather than being a dialectical accompaniment of growth itself. The picture they implicitly subscribe to is ...

IN February 2024, two years into the war in Ukraine and five months into the Israeli genocide in Palestine, the European Union released data on the mood of the European public. In terms of Ukraine, ...

IN South Mumbai, BEST (electricity distribution company) has postponed the work of installing smart electricity meters. This company has 10.8 lakh residential and commercial consumers and it has ...

ANY insurgent group, even one with a secessionist agenda, cannot be completely defeated through military means alone; a peace agreement between the state and the leadership of the insurgent outfit is ...

AS public outrage intensifies over the tragic rape and murder of a trainee doctor at RG Kar hospital, Bengal is grappling with a disturbing rise in rape cases, revealing a troubling culture that has ...

ON October 7, US scientists Victor Ambros of the University of Massachusetts Medical School and Gary Ruvkun of Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, were awarded the Nobel Prize ...

MAKING a mockery of the BJP slogan of ‘Beti Bachao’ (save our daughters), the last few months have seen an exponential and very disturbing increase in incidents of horrific violence against women and ...

THE National Platform for the Rights of the Disabled, in a statement issued on October 13, expressed deep shock and profound anguish at the untimely death of Dr. G N Saibaba. It was just a few months ...

ANGANWADI employees have been waging struggles for better service conditions and remuneration for over 35 years. Their vital role during the pandemic was recognised, leading to demands for monetary ...

ON October 8, 2024, a public meeting at Shivaji Mandir Hall in Dadar, Mumbai was organised by parties of the India bloc and various social organisations to express solidarity with the Palestinian ...

LAUNCHING year-long programmes including struggles on the occasion of the Golden Jubilee of Integrated Child Development Services (ICDS) Scheme, the All India Federation of Anganwadi Workers and ...

SEVERAL international organisations are now engaged in the business of measuring what they call “poverty”. The World Bank has been in it for some time, but now we have a new measure of ...