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Chhattisgarh gram panchayats pass resolution against coal auctions

Twenty gram panchayats in Chhattisgarh have passed a resolution against the auction of five of the state’s 42 coal blocks deemed illegal by the Supreme Court in Septe...

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Sustainable Development

Idukki becomes first district in India to get high-speed rural broadband connectivity

India’s first high-speed rural broadband network, the National Optic Fibre Network (NOFN), was commissioned in Kerala’s Idukki district on Monday. With this, th...

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Thought Factory

THE ROMANCE OF KITES

In mid January, the skies over Gujarat and Maharashtra are gaily speckled with kites, diving, soaring and getting at each other. This day marks the solar ingress into Capri...

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Health

Should India make health a fundamental right?

As a symbolic gesture, it is great to make health a justiciable right; but as citizenry, we would be foolish to let the healthcare debate be hijacked by this non-issue, or ...

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Sustainable Development

Ministries battle over applicability of Forest Rights Act

Union ministries are engaged in an official tussle over the ambit and implementation of the Forest Rights Act. After the environment ministry (MoEF) issued a circular in Oc...

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Sustainable Development

The truly dictatorial ordinance didn’t come from Modi: it came from Rajasthan

Laying down educational qualifications for panchayat and zila parishad elections endangers democracy. Prime Minister Narendra Modi has received plenty of flak for resorting...

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Sustainable Development

63 million people faced with poverty due to healthcare expenditure

A whopping 63 million people are faced with poverty every year due to “catastrophic” expenditure over healthcare which neutralises the gains of rising income an...

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Sustainable Development

Lexicon of democratic literacy

The introduction of educational qualifications as eligibility criteria for contesting panchayat elections has shocked and angered rural Rajasthan, including supporters of t...

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Sustainable Development

India to track toilet use with tablets

Prime Minister Narendra Modi is launching a nationwide online programme to check whether people are using toilets as part of his cleanliness drive. From next month, officia...

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Environment

2014 Brought Lasting Action On Climate Change Policy

Some of the stories that gripped our attention in 2014 will probably be forgotten in a few years ? if not a few weeks. But there's one story that President Obama argues we'...

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