Institute for Promoting Research

Without human insights, data and the hard sciences will not meet the challenges of the next decade, says Hetan Shah. At the beginning of the year, Dominic Cummings, a senior adviser to the UK government, posted an unusual advert on his blog, calling for data scientists, mathematicians and physicists to join him at the heart of government. As outgoing director of the Royal Statistical Society in London and soon-to-be chief executive of the British Academy, I support the sentiment behind the call: data do have huge power to inform government policy. Read more: Https://Www.Nature.Com/Articles/D41586-020-00064-X

India as called 'A Land of Hundred Nations' serves as a home to different religions: Hindus, Muslims, Christians, Sikhs, Buddhists, Jains and others (Parsis, Jews) with 122 languages and their 234 mother tongues(1)and over 650 tribes. With having so many diverse groups inhabiting together, conflicts become almost inevitable. These conflicts have resulted in large destruction of public property amounting to huge loss to economy as well as tremendous human suffering. Moreover, they have also been a major cause of concern for the governments as they pose hurdles in the way of development. This paper aims to analyse the causes and effects of some of the major and recent ethnic conflicts and problems in India. It also analyses the government policies and constitutional provisions as preventive measures to these conflicts in brief. Three conflicts have attracted the significant media attraction recently: 'Manipur Blockade in last December', 'Instances of Reservation-Demands by Jats and Patidars' and the very recent 'Beef-Controversy'. http://cpadelhi.com/enviromenthealth.php?Id=33&CId=2

Microcredit refers to small loans given to impoverished borrowers (who typically lack collateral) and help them becoming self-employed, support entrepreneurship and poverty alleviation. The Grameen Bank originated in Bangladesh in 1983 laid the foundation of modern microcredit and since then a large number of Microfinance institutions and NGOs around the globe are offering financial services, mainly microcredit, to underprivileged and poor communities. http://www.cpadelhi.com/gender.php?Id=36&CId=1

Since the reform and opening up, the speed of urbanization in China has been accelerating and the environmental situation has become increasingly severe. In the process of accelerating urbanization, central cities have put forward the goal of building eco-cities, carrying out the second modernization, polluting enterprises gradually move from the central cities to the surrounding areas, a large amount of agricultural land has been requisitioned into non-agricultural land, and rural and wilderness areas have been gradually reduced. Due to various reasons, there are various environmental injustices in the three dimensions between man and nature, man and non-man species, and man and man.