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Marjut Falkstedt Women account for 43% of the agricultural labour force in developing countries, but account for only about 7% of investment in the sector. According to the Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations, investing more in female farmers could increase agricultural yields...

“What’s in a name?” said the Bard to underline the importance of the intrinsic qualities of a man rather than his family position or social rank. But, when it comes to the name of a place or a railway station or a street, it becomes...

‘Boss’ is not a bad word. Sometimes one even endearingly calls one’s superior ‘boss.’ But ‘bossism’ in the professional world more often than not becomes a dirty word. It implies an exercise of power by an individual authorised to supervise the work of subordinates to...

National Security Adviser Ajit Doval has urged a fresh batch of Indian Police Service (IPS) officers, at a passing out parade November 12, to wage war against and ‘subvert’ the civil society in the name of defending the rule of law. This call could be...

The big story this week is about what an actress said about the Independence movement. She felt something like India’s struggle for freedom being akin to begging and that real freedom had come only after 2014. For four days, this was the subject dominating social...

During the height of the COVID-19 wave last year, the Gujarat government deployed top IAS and IPS officers who held a degree in medicine to tackle the pandemic in the worst-affected areas. The move to use officers with administrative as well as medical skills worked...

Dani Rodrik US President Joe Biden’s economic and foreign policies may represent a sharp departure from those of his predecessor, Donald Trump. But when it comes to relations with China, Biden has largely maintained Trump’s tough line – refusing, for example, to reverse Trump’s tariff...

Elizabeth Drew Perhaps the Democratic Party’s downhill slide can be arrested by President Joe Biden and his top congressional allies. But their job is daunting. If objective conditions don’t change – particularly inflation – and if the Republicans field able candidates, the Democrats could be...

It is all very nice that Prime Minister Narendra Modi offered sweets and celebrated Diwali with soldiers November 5 at the Nowshera sector in the border district of Rajouri in Jammu and Kashmir. His exhortations and platitudes that the Indian defence strategy has to be...

Meghalaya Governor and BJP leader Satya Pal Malik has done it again. He has gone hammer and tongs against the Centre, questioning the wisdom of some of its crucial decisions, including the three controversial farm laws, policies and even the party’s tall claim of stemming...