-Business Standard Evidence on increasing risk should be tipping scale for the government New Delhi: At the COP21 talks in Paris, Chennai had been brought up as an unfortunate exhibit of the perfect storm triggered by climate change and indiscriminate urban planning. While India is already driving the conversation about the global effort to climate-proofing, hopefully the impact of this latest flood will also force its leadership to sit up and take...

-Hindustan Times Malkeet Kaur, 55, travels 60 km each day to Kalianwali in the heart of haryana’s cotton belt to undergo radiation therapy at the Advanced Cancer Diagnostic, Treatment and Research Centre in Bathinda. A resident of Kaali Mali village in the Sirsa district, the mother of four was diagnosed with breast cancer in her right breast in April this year. She now goes for radiotherapy five days a week to remove...

-Outlook haryana’s new, ‘progressive’ panchayat election rules skewers the chances of women and the marginalised In rural haryana, last year’s drought-hit fields are finally giving way to the verdant yellow and green of mustard, but the people are restive, even angry. All along the glittering 250-km highway that connects Rohtak with Nuh—haryana’s west and east, also its best and worst—a wedge has been driven between the rich and the poor by...

-The Times of India New Delhi: They may be some of the most backward states in the country, but when it comes to women empowerment these states have topped the charts and are well ahead of their more prosperous counterparts like Gujarat, Punjab, Goa, Tamil Nadu and Maharashtra. One of the parameters to judge women empowerment is by knowing how many are functioning as elected representatives. The government data on elected women...

-The Asian Age It’s a huge story. And it’s not getting the kind of media attention it deserves. It’s a story about India’s farmers. It’s a story about the ongoing agrarian crisis in the country in the wake of two successive years of drought. If one looks only at the figures of growth of gross domestic product which tend to make headlines in financial publications, there’s no story for agriculture comprises...