The effort to translate this aspiration into a constitutional guarantee culminated in the enactment of the Right of Children to Free and Compulsory Education (RTE) Act in 2010, which remains the ...

The relationship between economic growth and employment generation remains a critical concern in development discourse. The World Bank (2018) emphasises that poverty reduction and shared prosperity ...

Since the early 2000s, the World Wide Web has been under an “attack of the snowclones” (Pullum 2004; Hartmann and Ungerer 2024). A snowclone is a formulaic expression of a pattern like “X BE the new Y ...

In the early hours of 13th October 2020, a weak tropical cyclone made landfall at Kakinada in Andhra Pradesh. Designated as 'Deep Depression BOB 02' by the IMD (India Meteorological Department), it ...

In October 1765 a mob of sailors wearing blackface and masks, armed with clubs and cutlasses, visited the home of wealthy Charleston merchant Henry Laurens. Eighty strong and warm with drink and anger ...

In 2020, global annual freshwater withdrawals totalled 3,985.53 billion cubic metres (BCM), with agriculture accounting for approximately 72% of the total use (Global Freshwater Withdrawals 2022). As ...

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of ...

The sweetness we consume is In Koos (The Womb), director Dnyaneshwar Jadhawar and producer Jivraj Chole, themselves rooted in sugar cane-growing communities, narrate the understated, ...

The usual rhythm of the city, which is shaped by its coastal economy, heritage streets, and everyday visual clutter, shifts slightly when contemporary art enters the scene. The Biennale functions as ...

This gap is widening even as the climate crisis intensifies. Scientific assessments consistently warn that global temperatures are on course to exceed the Paris Agreement’s 1.50C limit by 2030, a ...

While the government has been making tall claims about the economic performance of the state under the current regime, a closer scrutiny shows otherwise. Newspaper advertisements of the government ...

From a public health perspective, the age distribution of the population is an often-undercounted surrogate measure of many of these host factors, which can influence the mortality rate of these acute ...