An Environment of Gender Equality: Tamil Nadu woman leading the fight against climate change

An Environment of Gender Equality: Tamil Nadu woman leading the fight against climate change

Supriya Sahu has been leading Tamil Nadu’s fight to prevent the devastating effects of extreme weather, and she has been putting women on the front lines of those battles. | Photo Credit: Supriya Sahu Tamil Nadu is one of the largest and most urbanized states in India. It is also one of the states most … Read more

Morning Digest | SC says NEET violates the basic structure of right to equality; AAP leader Manish Sisodia summoned by CBI, and more  

Morning Digest | SC says NEET violates the basic structure of right to equality; AAP leader Manish Sisodia summoned by CBI, and more  

The Supreme Court of India. | Photo Credit: SUSHIL KUMAR VERMA Tamil Nadu government moves Supreme Court, says NEET violates basic structure, equality and federalism The Tamil Nadu government on Saturday moved an original suit in the Supreme Court for a declaration that the National Eligibility-cum-Entrance Test (NEET) as the sole gateway for entry into … Read more

Kerala should be for gender equality: Satheedevi

Kerala should be for gender equality: Satheedevi

Kerala Women’s Commission chairperson P. Satheedevi has called for creating social conditions that do not harm the dignity and self-respect of women. She was inaugurating ‘Penpakal,’ a seminar organised by the State Institute of Languages, Vyloppilly Samskrithi Bhavan, and the Kerala Women’s Commission here on Friday, Nirbhaya Day. Ms. Satheedevi said only if a pro-women … Read more

Experts call for global collaboration on bringing equality to publisher-platform relationship

Experts call for global collaboration on bringing equality to publisher-platform relationship

Leading experts from Canada and the United States have called upon countries around the world, including India, to join hands across borders and replicate Canada’s upcoming news media bargaining code. During the virtual 2nd Digital News Publishers Association (DNPA) Dialogue on Friday, the experts exchanged ideas on how to restore fairness to the relationship between … Read more

Did the world become more equal after the financial crisis?

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By Ferdinando Giugliano The “elephant chart” has been the most influential graph of the past decade in economics. It showed that in the 20 years before the financial crisis, global income growth largely benefitted two groups of people: the middle classes of emerging markets, such as China, and the ultra-rich around the world. Meanwhile, the … Read more