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How will the fossil fuel sector respond to the known energy pressures of 2022?
A global platform can be one where cities learn from each other, share best practices, discuss challenges — and seek solutions together.
It was an erratic poll for populists and right-wing nationalists alike, but they extended their power in Europe’s capital nations.
Mere constitutional creation of new political space would not become the answer to the growing demands for inclusion and participation in the countryside. For substantive democracy to become a reality, Centre and States need to show willingness to share powers (3Fs).
Presenting the Interim Budget 2024-’25 on 1 February, the finance minister announced an allocation of INR 6,21,541 crore (approx. US$75 billion) for the Ministry of Defence (MoD). Representing 1.9 percent of Gross Domestic Product (GDP) and 13 percent of Central Government Expenditure (CGE), MoD’s new budget is an increase of 4.7 percent over the previous outlays. This brief examines the MoD’s latest budget and contextualises it in the curr
The development of non-farm sectors alongside infrastructural changes in the agricultural sector could bring reformation of the Indian economy.
Can G20 rise up to the occasion and meet the global expectations by coming to a universal agreement on crucial issues like trade and climate?
As the goals keep flowing, football continues to add verses to its confluences with geopolitics, identity, nationalism and globalisation. Over the years, the sport has consistently managed to hold a mirror to contemporary society.
In this age of constant disruption, organisations need to view the world as an intense 90-minute football game — dynamic, constantly-changing, unpredictable.
A nation-state—with its numerous institutions, actors, and daily interactions—is a complex system and it is a tall task to predict the future trajectory of any of its sub-systems such as the armed forces. What is certain, though, is that every sovereign state aims to have a military that is of the highest possible calibre. One of two paths may be chosen to achieve this goal: tying-in the military’s capability development with the ec
As the world confronts multiple challenges which are intricately connected, our path for development stands at a crucial juncture. In the context of the embroiling polycrisis, progress on the sustainable development goals (SDGs) has been steady but fragile with major and persistent challenges. Financing for Agenda 2030 has emerged as a major bottleneck with several developing economies, especially the least developed countries (LDCs), low-income
For a new phase of growth, government disintermediation, rather than enhanced control over the economy, is appropriate.
In a sharply-divided grouping, India needs to turn conflicted values into shared interests.
The path to successfully execute NEP is riddled with hurdles; the Centre and states need to work closely to overcome them
Against the critical security backdrop and Kyiv’s counteroffensive, the NATO leaders will assemble for the upcoming summit in Lithuania
There are decades when nothing happens and weeks when decades happen.
Though China has significantly reduced the rate of malnutrition, the country still faces challenges in ensuring food security
The defining aspect of technology and innovation in the 2020s isn’t an algorithm or an invention, it’s a choice.
Indian foreign policy has been at the front and centre of challenging China’s global designs. New Delhi was the first country to warn the world of the dangers of China’s BRI at a time when almost every other country was willing to buy into Beijing’s narrative.
As President Barack Obama reaches the twilight of his first term, he has to enter the grind yet again, go all out to try and convince the voters that he deserves another term.
The Hangzhou G20 summit was about taking stock of the economic situation in a world where global recovery from the 2008 crisis remains sluggish.
The COP26 summit will need to work towards four key outcomes: increased finance for climate action; more ambitious emissions reduction commitments; fi
