Brain Drain: Indian students in foreign universities tend to stay back after completing their courses as foreign education prepares them for better jobs opportunities available in developed countries. Read more »
The government should promote employment generation and enhance social protection in sectors with major presence of women workers to achieve target 5.4 of the sustainable development goals. Read more »
Farmers who engage in stubble burning have become the fall guys in the blame game, but Delhi air quality cannot improve without solving issues such as vehicular pollution and garbage dumps. Read more »
Russia’s participation in the wheat exports deal is essential for keeping a global food shortage from getting worse. Read more »
India must cut fertiliser subsidies by targeting them better, while also making efforts to reduce the use of chemical fertilisers to facilitate climate change mitigation. Read more »
The institutions that publish democracy index rankings are not biased, but they fail to filter out the biases of people who conduct the studies, says Salvatore Babones. Read more »
India's urban transformation has evolved from a top-down one to a contextual one which is based on the requirement of individual cities. Read more »
PMKVY 4.0 rightly focuses on female labour force participation, but the Skill India programme must address its many flaws to be successful. Read more »
Policy options to promote organ donation in India would include mandated choice along with strong data protection, enhanced policing and judicial capacity. Read more »
The Global Hunger Index is not a reliable measure of hunger because of questionable data collection practices and methodology issues. Read more »