• Key Facts

• Farmers' suicides

• Rural distress

• Debt Trap

• Unemployment

• Migration

• GENDER

• Displacement

• Right to Food  

• Right to Work (MG-NREGA)

• Social Audit

• Right to Information

• Right to Education

• Forest and Tribal Rights

• Policy/ Action so far

• Poverty and inequality

• Hunger Overview

• Malnutrition

• HDI Overview

• Education  

• Public Health

• Mid Day Meal Scheme (MDMS)

• PDS/ Ration/ Food Security  

• MDGs

• Water and Sanitation

• Impact on Agriculture

• Time Bomb Ticking

• Social Justice

• Access to Justice

• Human Rights

• Corruption

• General Insecurity

• Disaster & Relief

Four walls and the cry for help -Vani S Kulkarni, Manoj K Pandey and Raghav Gaiha

ligence of domestic duties, poorly prepared food and going out alone without permission, a sign of independence, are often dealt with just as cruelly. Forms Our analysis, based on the India Human Development Survey 2004-05, throws new light on the perceptions of patterns of domestic violence as well as some correlates. Since perceptions may not accurately reflect actual cases of domestic violence, the margins of error are difficult to assess

Indian acid attack victim fights for justice -Sumnima Udas

eev Bagai. Bagai and his medical team have managed to reconstruct her lips, eyelids, nose, but the challenge now is to give her "some kind of a normal face, somewhere close to what a normal Human being would look like," he says. The men who scarred her for life were freed after just two years in jail. Mukherjee has appealed the court's decision but years on she's yet to get a date in court. "My father spent every pen

RTI brings to light drug trial on Humans -Syed Intishab Ali

-The Times of India JAIPUR: A doctor conducted drug trial on heart patients but seven of them died during trial of the drug. Moreover, another doctor conducted drug trials of different companies and 10 of his cancer patients died during the trials. An RTI filed by a government-run Indore hospital Dr Anand Rai exposed deaths leading to drug trials in entire country. Answering to the RTI, office ofdrug controller general, ministry of family health and welfare, gave a list of deaths t

Indian dolphin, elephant among top 100 mammals facing extinction: Zoological society of London -Kounteya Sinha

ants surviving in Vietnam. Habitat loss has been a primary factor in the decline of the Asian elephant. ZSL said, "The elephants have become increasingly isolated in habitat patches as Human settlements cut off ancient migratory routes. There is concern that many of these subpopulations are too small to be viable. Even protected populations are at risk from inbreeding and disease." Elephants are increasingly coming into contac

No Maoists were present when forces opened fire, say villagers-Suvojit Bagchi

quot;innocent villagers". Another officer said "they could also be with Maoist militia". On Saturday, senior officers told The Hindu that Maoists were using the villagers as "Human shields". However, other officers refuted this claim and said the villagers were shot when they happened to stray into the firing line. Post-mortem was conducted in Ganglur police station.

Working women numbers don’t add up -Rukmini Shrinivasan

ng, making handicrafts - that I think are not being properly captured because it is irregular or part-time work," says Preet Rustagi, professor and joint director of the Delhi-based Institute of Human Development . But this is a fixable problem, Rustagi says. "In rural areas, it was a common problem that women who tended to cattle would not consider their work to be economically productive even if the cow's milk was later sold in the market.

How GDP understates economic growth-Bill Gates

the same problems as GDP. Other ways to measure overall living standards in a country are similarly imperfect; but they nonetheless provide additional ways to understand poverty. One, called the Human Development Index, uses health and education statistics in addition to GDP. Another, the Multidimensional Poverty Index, uses 10 indicators, including nutrition, sanitation, and access to cooking fuel and water. And, by using purchasing power parity

Hunger stalks temple town of Varanasi-Virendra Nath Bhatt

-Tehelka While district administration of Varanasi says that the children died of tuberculosis, Human rights' activists allege that the deaths were due to hunger and malnutrition  Two children from a poor family of weavers have allegedly died of starvation in Varanasi. Four-year old Mohammed Murtaza died on 9 May, while his sister Shamim Parveen (14) died the next day in the Bajardiha locality of Varanasi. Their father, Abdul Khali

An Abstract Hunger- Anuradha Raman

committee, was in favour of the bill and the committee had cleared it. Nobel laureate Amartya Sen has lent his weight to the debate by urging parliamentarians to pass the bill. He points to the Human price of hunger, saying that delay will be disastrous. It's an opinion much valued. But the UPA will have to do more than come up with a vote-catcher. The granaries are overflowing with this year's record harvest of 637 lakh tonnes. By winning over

Girls interrupted -Charan Singh

new waves of female migration from neighbouring countries with different cultures and customs and even such migration may not be able to meet the need. In the absence of such migration, cases of Human trafficking, kidnapping, forced marriages and other related crimes can increase. All these all would imply cost to the fisc and society. Transitory phase Adverse child sex ratio could be a transitory phase in a growing economy like China,