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The government has announced an ambitious target of providing piped clean drinking water to all rural households by 2024. Although a worthy goal, it is unclear how the government proposes to achieve this formidable target under the current circumstances.
The algorithms designed to amplify user engagement and ad revenues are now deployed to restrict political speech that these companies find objectionable — creating a ‘surveillance democracy’ in the process. Read more ►
The SCO summit saw bilateral meetings garnering more attention than the multilateral summit itself. Read more ►
It is imperative for India to build resilient systems and retrofit existing ones in order to secure its development gains, minimise disruptions, economic losses and expedite the future response and recovery measures. Read more ►
The Indian army is a manpower-intensive military. With the second largest military in terms of personnel, the Indian armed forces have always faced a shortage of funds when it came to the introduction of modernised and indigenous equipment. Read more ►
If Pakistan thinks they can scare Modi by playing mad, the Balakot air strikes show that he can scare them even more. Pakistan's madman theory has been turned on its head. Read more ►
Rajas is a state of being that goes out and does rather than waits to be done. It applies to the evolution of individuals, as they, generally, evolve from being in a tamasic state to a rajasic one to finally conclude in the sattwic.Read more ►
Masood Azhar-led Jaish-e-Mohammed is one of the many terror groups Beijing considers as important cogs for security and stability in its restive Xinjiang province. Read more ►
Sale of F-16 upgrades for Pakistan was considered in 2008, amidst much controversy. Read more ►
The centrality of the ASEAN has been emphasised amidst the geopolitical shifts that the region is encountering like the ongoing tussle between the US and China.
The political faultline notwithstanding, each side draws its vested political interest from the death of an ordinary Kashmiri. Read more ►
With Verdict 2019 giving a greater political force to Modi’s next five years, we hope some of them will make the grade, or at least, in experiential learnings from 70 years of India’s policymaking continuum, would sow the seeds of change for future governments to take forward. Read more ►
The bill has to be a constitutional amendment as it overshoots the Supreme Court's 50% cap on quotas and takes the total to 60%. Read more ►
According to the Indian Citizenship Law, a person is an Indian citizen if s/he domiciled in India when the Constituent Assembly adopted the Constitution on 26 November 1949 or if he/she had been in India for at least five years until that date. Read more ►
As the international community restarts its no-war broken record, it needs to keep one date in mind that has irreversibly changed India’s stance — 14 February 2019. Pakistan may be the trigger that set it off, but it will now impact India’s foreign policy and strategic affairs. Read more ►
The team comprising of Home Minister Amit Shah, External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar, Defence Minister Rajnath Singh and the NSA Ajit Doval is a security dream-team. Read more ►
The historic second term of Narendra Modi’s government can serve to exacerbate the material asymmetry between India and Pakistan. For this reason and others, and contrary to popular belief, Modi is best-placed to deliver a lasting solution to the 70-year-old dispute. Read more ►
Is a new crop of homegrown suicide bombers and Fedayeen attackers coming up in Jammu and Kashmir? How will the security forces deal with this development and prevent such recruitments? Read more ►
The ideas of dharma, artha, kama and moksha the Mahabharata expresses and which were relevant five millenniums ago to kings, kingdoms and praja (the ‘governed’), remain equally relevant to individuals and families, organisations and companies, communities and nations today. Read more ►
If Bhishma were alive today, Prime Minister Narendra Modi would ask him four questions around war.
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