Women farmers transform agriculture with organic revolution and indigenous crops
A field that has been a preserve of males, agriculture and women have dominated the place with their achievements.
A field that has been a preserve of males, agriculture and women have dominated the place with their achievements.
Observed annually on 11 January, National Human Trafficking Awareness Day serves as an acute reminder of the global and national fight against one of the gravest human rights violations of our time.
Delhi’s winter air pollution crisis has been a perennial challenge, with the Air Quality Index (AQI) peaking at alarming levels year after year.
The dream of millions of such Indians who wish to enjoy the scenic beauty of the ‘Paradise on Earth’ is likely to get wings soon with the Udhampur-Srinagar-Baramulla Rail Link (USBRL) Project that narrates the tale of triumph over young, rugged Himalayan mountains by the Indian Railways.
The word Gond is derived from 'Kond', which means green mountains, and tribal people are known as Gondis since they primarily live in Madhya Pradesh's beautiful green mountains.
As pundits, politicians and public commentators intensely debate the election results, I caution against hyperbole and overinterpretation of what was, in reality, a close race, though the margin of victory looks wider than it actually is, due to the special quirk of the electoral college system.
Justice Sanjiv Khanna assumed office as the 51st Chief Justice of India on Monday, following Justice DY Chandrachud’s tenure. The oath of office was administered by President Droupadi Murmu in a ceremony at Rashtrapati Bhavan.
The victorious Trump camp is touting its newfound “historic” mandate while the dejected Harris camp accuses the country of being “racist and sexist” for letting them down. Both are untrue. Trump won with 295 electoral votes to Harris’ 226. A solid victory, but hardly a landslide.
As the world focuses on the United Nations’ upcoming Conference of Parties (COP 29) which begins tomorrow, The Statesman looks at environmental issues closer home.
Readers that only know Shinie Antony for her witty, often whimsical, pieces in the national newspapers would be amazed at her expertise in the Old Testament, Septuagint, the Hebrew Bible, the Synoptic Gospels and Apocryphal, Jewish magical and Kabbalistic sources that did not find their way into the Biblical canon, apart from her striking eloquence for female assertion and empowerment. Her learning is combined here with an evocative and vigorous, even uncompromising, writing style.
