India’s solar irrigation programme is going seriously astray. Off-grid solar pumps waste two-thirds of the energy they generate. Maharashtra’s solar agricultural feeders avoid energy waste but ...

EPW consults referees from a database of 200+ academicians in different fields of the social sciences on papers that are ...

Welfare schemes cannot be subsidised by the exploitation of front-line workers. Accredited social health activists (ASHAs) in Kerala have been on strike at the state’s capital over the last one month ...

In honour of the late Mr. Dhruba Narayan Ghosh — a superb civil servant, a distinguished corporate leader, an innovative banker, a builder of institutions, a natural leader, a scholar, a columnist and ...

The Industrial Relations Code of 2020 represents a transformative shift in India’s industrial dispute resolution system, consolidating labour courts and industrial tribunals into a single entity ...

EPW consults referees from a database of 200+ academicians in different fields of the social sciences on papers that are ...

The Jharkhand Mukti Morcha-led coalition has emerged victorious in the recent Jharkhand assembly elections, indicating that public memory against perceived assaults upon protective legislation is ...

Classifying ecosystem services under five groups, the issues raised by ecological economists on sustainable scale, use of marginal analysis, and distributional equity are considered. The need for ...

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