India embraced liberalisation, privatisation, globalisation (LPG) in 1991. Embracing globalisation has been a mixed experience for India. Poverty & Globalization It is observed that Poverty rates around the...
The 2015 GHI was calculated for 117 developing countries and countries in transition, 80 of which with alarming or serious hunger levels. The focus of GHI 2015 was...
The 2016 Global Nutrition Report (GNR) was released recently providing an independent and annual review of the state of the world’s nutrition. The vision of the GNR is...
FAO had released the SOFA in 2015. It highlights the status of agriculture and food in the counties. Through the SOFA, FAO brings out a positive co-relation between...
The 1st ever post independence Socio-Economic and Caste Census (SECC) was conducted in 2011. Government released the results of SECC-2011 in July 2015. SECC-2011 was first caste based...
Experts have noted recently that the failure to provide opportunities which leads to poverty coupled with misreading of religion has helped fuel terrorism worldwide. Extreme poverty is the...
Earlier, poverty was only looked upon as a rural phenomenon. However, India faces problem of both rural poverty as well as urban poverty. This was one of the...
Amongst the 17 sustainable development goals (SDGs), the goal 1 relates to ending poverty in all its forms everywhere by 2030 and transform the world. Background More than...
Recently, a team from the Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru, had found that Quercetin helps to prevent multiplication of cancerous cells by blocking the process of cell division....
As per the NDPS Act, narcotic drugs include coca leaf, cannabis (hemp), opium and poppy straw. Psychotropic substance means any natural or synthetic material or any salt or...
