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Female Headed Households
With increased job mobility, women are finding homes away from their usual place of residence and consequently featuring as female headship in the data enumeration process.
Grannies active against Uranium
Uranium Corporation of India Limited (UCIL) labelling an area within the 10 kilometre radius of Domiasiat, West Khasi hills of Meghalaya as commercially viable for mining has sparked off resistance in...
Dirt is Good: Working out Childhood Asthma
A farmer’s child is less likely to turn asthmatic as compared to the child of a white collared employee living in the city. And no, it is not always related to urban pollution.
Shining India's Stumbling Blocks
Skewed and Gendered Skills: Barring a few exceptions, neither the formal system nor the informal system nor the private entrepreneurs seem to be motivated enough to expand the skill horizon for women...
Dolphins at Harike Spotting the rare Indus species
December 2007 saw the confirmed splashing of several beautiful dolphins. Mothers with their enrapturing calves, adult males on their lonesome quest for food and mate and juveniles swishing the murky w...
Tackling India's Ground Water Resources
In the Indo-Gangetic and Brahmaputra plains, ground water potential is very high and such areas can support large scale development. In peninsular India and hilly states, however, groundwater potentia...
National Map Policy
The advancements in digital technologies have now made it possible to use diverse spatial databases in an integrated manner. The responsibility for producing, maintaining and disseminating the topogra...
Locating Masroor-Himachal Pradesh
Day excursion to Masroor in Himachal Pradesh happened to be one of the highlights of our summer vacation at Mcleodganj. The temple standing magnificently on a hill crescent is a unique example of mono...
Spurious Drug Menace: Tale of merchants of death
The spurious drug industry is well established in India. According to the World Health Organisation 35 percent of the world’s spurious drugs are produced in India, followed by Nigeria. .....
Flowers of Doom
Bamboo grows wild in at least 30 percent of Mizoram's total geographical area of 21,081 square kilometers. The plant is of two types, ‘mau’ and ‘thing’ -Melocanna bamboo Soidef and Bambusa tulda class...