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Increasing Women Voter Turnout in Indian Elections
Since the first General Elections were conducted in 1952, the participation of women in voting has gradually increased. Various factors, including, but not limited to literacy rate, exposure to media...
Spatial Patterns and Voter Turnout
The strongest feature of Indian democracy is the high rate of participation of citizens in elections. Voter turnout, political awareness and participation of women in elections are constantly changing...
O P Rawat I India’s electoral integrity suffers in the areas of campaign finance and media coverage
Should the State fund Elections in India?
While public funding of elections would cost the exchequer a bomb, public interest demands that the state earmarks subsidies to clean up its democratic polity.
भारतीय मानसून, अटलांटिक हरिकेन को कैसे प्रभावित कर रहा है?
<p>हाल के एक अध्ययन के अनुसार हिंद महासागर में उत्पन्न होने वाला मजबूत मानसून पूर्वोन्मुख पवन को प्रेरित कर सकता है जिससे अटलांटिक महासागर में उत्पन्न होने वाला हरिकेन पश्चिम में अमेरिका की ओर रूख कर...
Disasters in India: Flood Management
<p>Rapid urbanisation, combined with changing courses of river bodies are posing new challenges for flood management. The existing mechanisms for flood risk mitigation are inadequate for addressing th...
Soil Erosion and Conservation in India
<p>Soil erosion in our country is a serious threat to both the irrigated and rainfed areas. Every year India loses up to 68 billion rupees according to the National Remote Sensing Agency (NRSA).</p>
Disaster Preparedness in an Increasingly Uncertain World: Aligning Science and Policy
Given India’s population, its density, concentration in particular geographies, and weak state of its institutions of governance, adopting precautionary measures to disaster preparedness becomes imper...