The India-UK Offshore Wind Taskforce presents a strategic opportunity to strengthen supply chains, financing, auction markets, and transmission infrastructure for India's emerging offshore wind sector. ...
Trade agreements are widening market access for Indian agriculture, but converting that access into export competitiveness requires stronger standards, traceability, and value chains ...
This essay examines the structural weaknesses in Bangladesh's energy sector and argues that renewable energy expansion and regional energy cooperation are essential to building long-term energy security and resilience. ...
Social media no longer just reflects reality; it quietly constructs it through invisible systems of algorithms, attention and influence ...
Iran's threat to tax undersea cables in the Strait of Hormuz exposes the fragility of global digital infrastructure as well as the depth of India's strategic vulnerability ...
National scorecards alone cannot capture sustainable development; stronger global metrics and data systems are essential for collective progress ...
A city-centred century demands a new environmental compact: one that places nature, resilience, and sustainable urban governance at the heart of development ...
Three decades after the PC&PNDT Act, the ban on sex selection remains necessary, but India must ask whether an ultrasound-centred law still fits modern medical practice ...
India’s critical minerals policy stack is taking shape, but without a stronger midstream sector, strategic autonomy will remain elusive ...
As the Islamic State embeds itself in gaming ecosystems, meme culture, and algorithmic feeds, the battle for young minds is being fought on terrain that regulators have yet to map ...
Samir Saran is the President of the Observer Research Foundation (ORF), India’s premier think tank, headquartered in New Delhi with affiliates in North America and the Middle East. His research focuses on issues of global governance, climate and energy policy, ...
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Doctor of History is Dean of the Faculty of World Economy and International Affairs of the National Research UniversityHigher School of Economics (NRUHSE) and Honorary Chairman of the Council on Foreign and Defense Policy Russia.
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