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Tackling the Trust Deficit (Bangkok Post) When will politicians finally start work on rebuilding the public's shattered faith in their ability to lead? A 'trust index' would help hold them to account Published: 26/12/2010 at 12:00 AM Exactly five years ago next month, the World...

The Daughter Deficit By TINA ROSENBERG Published: August 19, 2009 In the late 1970s, a Ph.D. student named Monica Das Gupta was conducting anthropological fieldwork in Haryana, a state in the north of India. She observed something striking about families there...

In the late 1970s, a Ph.D. student named Monica Das Gupta was conducting anthropological fieldwork in Haryana, a state in the north of India. She observed something striking about families there: parents had a fervent preference for male offspring. Women who had given birth to only daughters...

Experts say the scanty rainfall could spell doom for the crops, especially paddy Monsoon in Punjab this year has been deficit by 22 per cent. The state, which till date should have received at least 480 mm of rainfall, has received only 300 mm. While districts of Abohar and Muktsar have been...