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A decentralised cluster planning approach holds the key to social distancing in urban public spaces.
While it is true that the high GDP growth can mean that many more people are lifted out of poverty, it does not mean equitable growth. The rich have benefited a lot from the high GDP growth under both the UPA and NDA regimes. But very few poor have risen to high positions of wealth and power during both times.
It is relevant to probe why Amit Shah chose to speak on the issue so forcefully when a controversy over Hindi had already arisen in the context of the
It is President Barak Obama's political requirement to have a calm Middle East so that he can keep a steady gaze on Afghanistan, the country on which the NATO Summit in Chicago must focus in May in ways that it is useful for his re election in November.
Japan wants to assist India to improve the investment climate to attract more FDI so that New Delhi can be linked more closely with Japan–ASEAN-based supply chains.
The concerns identified by BIMSTEC reveal that the organisation restricts itself to engaging in only those security challenges which are non-state cen
For Russia and even Central Asian countries, China can act as a catalyst to market their hydrocarbon resources to South Asia and beyond, opening an opportunity for gas exports too. Russia's $400 billion gas deal with China is a case in point.
On a proposal by Vietnam recently, ONGC Videsh Limited (OVL), the overseas investment arm of ONGC, has decided to stay invested in Block 128. The decision was taken after Hanoi offered to provide additional data to make future exploration economically feasible and discovering hydrocarbons commercially viable.
The Straits of Malacca is rife with several security threats, such as piracy, maritime terrorism, drug smuggling, gun running and illegal immigration. These challenges have the potential to disrupt, if not destroy, the maritime shipping in the Straits. Although regional countries have made considerable efforts to address these problems with some encouraging results, the challenges and threats are too formidable and complex for the combat capabili
The discussion at the COP26 summit was solely focused on EVs and Metro rail and left out crucial sectors of public transport and NMT
COP26 में यातायात से जुड़ी चर्चा पूरी तरह से इलेक्ट्रिक गाड़
The details of the proposed loss and damage funds need to be worked out
Despite COP27 arriving at a momentous consensus, the deferment of key issues to future COPs has stalled concrete climate action
As a voice for the developing world and as the only G20 country that is on track to achieve its climate targets, India is poised to become a global cl
COP28 offered something to every stakeholder but not enough for the world
Vulnerable communities are more confident and comfortable about using their local knowledge in crisis situations and indeed their functional knowledge
While President Barack Obama is pursuing his two-pronged approach in Afghanistan that involves talking to the Taliban and handling over the security to the Afghan National Army (ANA).
COVID-19 has demonstrated how copyright acts as a barrier in accessing educational material
China has sometimes been cordial to sanction imposers depending on the issue-salience of the sanction, yet its posture towards international sanctions regimes remains cold, especially when they conflict with its national interests.
The biggest concern about the BRI is that it is a means of cementing Chinese economic hegemony and, in the process, challenges the foundations of the extant liberal economic order.
Dealing with Covid-19 is inflaming already fierce tensions between central governments and states globally.
Undernourished people with weak immune systems and those with co-morbidities are strongly linked to adverse COVID-19 outcomes.
Changes need to be made at the grassroot level so that water available is optimised for usage
जिनकी डिजिटल तकनीक तक पहुंच नहीं है वे पीछे न छूट जाएं, इस�
The pending Companies Bill provides for in an increase in the corporate funding to political parties from 5% to 7.5% of the average net profits. This increase is despite the fact that the presence of strong corporate funding laws has not hindered companies to squeeze out crores in bribes.
This Issue Brief seeks to outline the history of corporate funding in India, legislation governing corporate funding, institutional innovations in corporate funding like electoral trusts, and international experiences and their relevance in the Indian context. Given the increasing clamour for transparent and accountable corporate funding of political parties, the Brief also explores the perils of over-reliance on corporate funding.
At a workshop on responsible corporate governance at Observer Research Foundation, it was noted that corporate governance and business responsibility are no longer add-ons to markets; they are integral to them.
With a cut in corporate taxes and a depreciated rupee, India may be able to boost its competitiveness.
This problem has been continuing for quite some time and is highly prevalent in the existing literature on valuation of ecosystem services — in gene
It may be more useful to discern the outstanding issues with global health governance, and revamp WHO’s powers to improve surveillance and complianc
There had always been a nexus between the Congress party and big business. After all, Mahatma Gandhi?s Ashram at Sevagram was financed by Jamnalal Bajaj; Gandhiji was assassinated in Birla House, New Delhi.
There is nothing more anti poetic than the image of Suresh Kalmadi and his alleged shananegans. Yet the mind, that strange instrument, moved mysteriously to Josh Malihabadi one of the greatest poets of the 20th century.
Though Myanmar's reforms are mostly'cosmetic' now, the changes can have unintended consequences, as witnessed in the case of Mikhail Gorbachev's Glasnost & Perestroika in the erstwhile Soviet Union, says Bertil Lintner, author of many books on Myanmar.
