Krishna Raj The interrelationship between climate change, public health, and Covid-19 is well established. Especially, the Economic Cost of Climate change is pervasive and increasingly observed in Public health in the recent Covid-19 pandemic. This begs a very genuine question…
Although women are disadvantaged in different walks of life everywhere, they enjoy much better status in some societies than others. Perception regarding women’s rights and abilities vary starkly across countries. For instance, while only 1.8% and 5.2% of respondents of the World Values Survey[1] agree with the statements that “men make better political leaders than women do” and “men should have more right to a job than women in times of scarcity” in Iceland, the corresponding numbers are 89.4% and 83% for Egypt. The averages from over 130,000 responses from 83 countries for the two statements are 36.1% and 32.4%, respectively.
Arjun Kumar, Anshula Mehta, Sunidhi Agarwal, Ritika Gupta, Mahima Kapoor, Swati Solanki In 2020, the Union Government of India finalized rule under 4 labour codes, with the aim of rebooting the economy and building a future of work that is…
T K Arun India swooned to the swoosh and thump of a javelin that hit its golden mark at the Tokyo Olympics, moved to withdraw a ‘retrospective’ tax provision, and saw the Supreme Court uphold the sanctity of arbitration as…
A starved judiciary with only 19.78 judges per million population —in contrast, the US has 150 per million— is a reason enough to slap litigation costs of ‘drag litigation’ upon administrative heads of institutions.
As Indian sportspersons are shining on the grounds of Tokyo Olympics, the country, and indeed the world, is beginning to hear their amazing stories. These are stories of struggle, passion, aspiration and stunning talent. Whether boxers or hockey players or wrestlers and javelin throwers, these men and women come from hitherto unheard of locations on the map of India…Nongpok Katching in Manipur, Simdega in Jharkhand, Sundergarh in Odisha, Golaghat in Assam.