Rural electrification has evidenced a paradigm shift from demand-driven village electrification programmes of the 1950s to the 1990s, to small targeted household electrification drives between the 1980s and 2005.
#MeToo has enabled women to tell the oppressor that his power over them is not absolute and that it will not remain unchallenged. Male dominance over women is systematic and institutionalized. The next generation of women will not grow up with that flawed belief.
Though Justice Indu Malhotra struck the balance in favour of religious freedom, she could have considered this in the context of public morality, and not constitutional morality, to come to a different conclusion.
The verdict has arrived as a huge disappointment when seen in the context of the need for untainted parliamentarians. Judicial activism saved this country many times when the executive and the legislature were not willing to do their job.
Human trafficking is a serious problem, with thousands of men, women and children being transported and exploited in their own countries and outside every year. India ranks among the worst countries in terms of its prevalence.
India faces the obligation to phase out its export incentives under the WTO Agreement on Subsidies and Countervailing Measures, having breached the $1,000 gross national income (GNI) per capita.
The Russian government has confirmed that President Vladimir Putin will oversee the signing of the S-400 air defence system deal with India after his arrival. It is over $5-billion deal.
Although India has made sizeable economic and social gains over the last two decades, the challenge of maternal and child undernutrition remains a national public health concern and a policy priority for the current government.
The recent deaths of six sewerage workers in Delhi in two separate incidents form part of a continuing series of such deaths. The pressure of poverty forces these workers to descend almost bare-bodied into sewers full of filth and excreta, fully knowing that they may asphyxiate to death as have many others like them.
According to statistics released by the WTO in July, the share of India in total world merchandise exports was 1.68 per cent in 2017, a level it has more or less maintained since 2011. The preceding decade was better when India more than doubled its share from only 0.7 per cent in 2001 to 1.67 per cent in 2011.
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