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Upgrading partnerships with resource-rich nations like Turkmenistan, DRC, and Zambia strengthens China's grip on energy supplies and critical minerals
नवंबर 2022 में बाली में G20 नेताओं के शिखर सम्मेलन से पहले, भारत ने 'विकास के लिए डेटा' (D4D) के सिद्धांत को अपनी G20 अध्यक्षता का अभिन्न अंग बनाने का वचन दिया था. दिसंबर 2022 में जब भारत ने �
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Off the record, top Indian government sources admit that by and large, when governments and law enforcement authorities put systems in place in a cris
Events have been moving in this direction for nearly a decade.
India's nuclear odyssey should be understood through the lens of geopolitical tensions, technological ambitions, and ethical dilemmas
Instead of seeing it as just another step forward for telecommunications, states must also view 5G’s strategic technology as critical national infra
Completely aligned with a control mindset, the practice of ensuring that farmers get a fair return on their production in an era of food surpluses con
At a time when India was emerging from the aftermath of Partition and shortages, the objective of this Act was to protect citizens from exploitation b
The new FCI should be a market-friendly agency for food management, with a primary focus on creating competition in every segment of foodgrain supply
The Foreign Exchange Regulation Act extended controls to “the use or disposal of — or dealings in — coin, bullion, securities or foreign exchang
As companies and producers began to embrace and communicate their adherence to the “ISI Mark” as a virtue, the mark and the quality it certified s
The law declared “in the public interest” — a term that would get echoed over the next five decades for several laws and policies, to mean the c
While building institutions is hard, maintaining them is even harder.
A five-decade-old issue — concentration of economic power, dominance in the hands of the few and the resultant inequalities — remains alive even t
If airlines symbolised the travel of the rich, they should logically have been banned altogether or taxed heavily. Instead, the government nationalise
“Nationalisation,” Indira Gandhi proclaimed, “is necessary for the speedy achievement of these objectives.”
In terms of outcomes, the first decade of coal nationalisation saw “political patronage of mafia activities” and bureaucratic corruption.
From 1972 to 2002, the journey of GIC — from nationalisation to a general insurance monopoly to opening up to private competition and finally to bec
While the ostensible reason for nationalisation and the obliteration of all competition was unfair practices of the companies and the protection of po
Intermingled with ONGC’s corporate structure was India’s strategic goal of energy security, the route to which was through global acquisitions.
An analysis of the agenda papers and records of the first 50 meetings indicates the dominance of a central economic thought, articulated by the prime
Initially offered by post offices and branches of select public sector banks, today, most private sector banks can offer the provident fund scheme to
The Special Economic Zones Act was, and still remains, a difficult legislation to turn into action.
Through the six decades of SBI’s presence, the initial objective of extending “banking facilities on a large scale, more particularly in the rural
The intellectual framework for high taxes was set by Finance Minister C.D. Deshmukh in his 27 February 1953 Union Budget speech, where he set up the T
Focused primarily on the Indian economy, Gautam Chikermane's new book, 70 Policies, also explores the impact of external influences — legal, politic
On 1 February, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman will make her most important political economy speech
Overlay this construct with the income-tax data for the same year and the situation becomes even worse.
The majority of Muslim leadership in India has, all along, been always in favour of a nationwide ban on cow slaughter, but somehow successive regimes
India must seize the moment and rebuild the bilateral relationship
The US has pledged to lift sanctions against the Taliban and help in lifting multilateral sanctions against the group as well.
The Bay of Bengal Initiative for Multi-Sectoral Technical and Economic Cooperation (BIMSTEC) was formed to foster socio-economic cooperation between its seven member nations – India, Bhutan, Myanmar, Thailand, Bangladesh, Nepal, and Sri Lanka. The group signed a free trade agreement (FTA) in 2004, but the pact is still not operational due to the lack of consensus on certain key issues. Some members like India are keen to finalise the terms of t
The Visegrad Four (V4) countries—Poland, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, and Hungary—are examples of communist states that have transitioned to liberal and democratic governance systems. In recent years, their visibility in the European Union (EU) has surged due to their contrarian positions on certain critical issues facing the Union, such as mass migration and, since 2022, the conflict in Ukraine. This paper analyses the impact of these trend
Novavax started off as one of the strongest contenders, promising 2 billion doses in 2021, despite failing to bring to market a single vaccine candidate in its 34-year-old his-tory.
This brief studies India’s foreign policy preferences using an index based on historical voting patterns of member states at the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA). By visualising the trajectory of policy preferences for all member states in the UNGA, with a particular focus on India, this work identifies how India’s policy stance at the UN has evolved in relation to its peers. It finds that Indian policy has maintained an exceptionally h
This year’s IPCC covers the demand-side mitigation and states that it can help reduce emission by 40-70 percent by 2050
It’s too soon to say whether the Indo-Pacific will remain a lasting picture of 21st-century geopolitics.
Bangladesh was one of the few countries in the world to sustain a positive economic growth rate during the COVID-19 pandemic. Today, however, it is experiencing symptoms that could stall such impressive record: rising divergences in the government’s fiscal balance; the precarious Balance of Payments situation; rapidly declining foreign exchange reserves; demand-supply gaps in the energy markets; and inflationary tendencies. The exogenous shocks
From re-nationalisation of manufacturing to more restricted flow of people, prepare for a new world
Mitigating the huge divide between the rich and the poor is a major challenge for the government as it will require a big increase in public investmen
