More than 13,500 adolescents across 583 villages participated in the experiment, discovering how to engage their families in conversations about truth and myth.
By 2036, 40% of India’s population will reside in cities. This presents significant challenges—the problem isn’t the pace of urbanisation, but the failure to sustain the expansion.
Annual Status of Education Report (ASER) 2024 also reveals 36.2% of boys in 14-16 age group own a smartphone compared to just 26.9% of girls in same age group.
At Second P Sundarayya Memorial Lecture, Patnaik spoke about reliable sources of nutritional data being ‘undermined’, British exploitation & ‘unrelenting attack’ on developing nations.
Love affairs in rural India seem to be turning deadlier, more brutal, and increasingly gender-agnostic. These breathlessly covered ‘prem prasangs’ suggest a churning among rural youth and a society that’s unprepared.
Comprehensive Annual Modular (CAM) survey covered 3,02,086 households (1,73,096 in rural areas and 1,28,990 in urban areas) across India, except for some villages in Andaman & Nicobar.
Findings mentioned in Health Dynamics of India 2022-23 report released by health ministry. Data show that availability of specialists in urban areas was slightly better.
Fast-moving consumer goods companies, most of which derive big share of earnings from rural markets, struggling to meet sales targets. Consumers buying cheaper products, smaller packs.
International media also highlights how Indian women are often 'left to bear the burden of their own safety' and the thousands of deaths caused by lightning strikes in rural India.
In 2022, athletes claimed they were asked to wind up training early at Thyagraj Stadium so that the IAS couple could walk their dog. Then came the memes and public outrage.
Instead of buying more Mirages outright in early 2000s, the requirement was tweaked in favour of a medium-weight, multi-role fighter with Mirage-like performance.
Pakistan not only has zero chance of catching up with India in most areas, but will inevitably see the gap rising. Its leaders will offer its people the same snake oil in different bottles.
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