If India focuses on improving bilateral economic and connectivity initiatives with Bangladesh, the economic development of this region is inevitable.
A Mature Democracy Must be Confident Enough to Hear Youth Anger: Domestic Unrest can Become Global Politics in Hours
Democracies need dissent. Young Indians have every right to demand credible examinations, transparent recruitment, accountable institutions and a responsive government. To delegitimise all youth anger as foreign manipulation would be intellectually lazy and politically dangerous. But it is equally naive to pretend that geopolitics ends at the border of domestic protest.
Making Workplaces Safer in South Asia: Prevention Less Costly than Catastrophe
Workplace accidents impose costs far beyond the immediate loss of life and injury. Families lose breadwinners, enterprises suffer productivity losses, projects face delays and governments incur healthcare and compensation costs. The social consequences can be particularly severe for migrant and informal workers
Is Delimitation Becoming a Penalty for Good Governance for India's Southern States?
For decades, these states invested heavily in women’s education, public health, industrialisation, literacy and population control. Fertility rates in many southern states have already fallen below replacement levels. In contrast, several northern states lagged behind for years on precisely these indicators. If parliamentary representation now shifts overwhelmingly toward states with higher population growth, the message becomes deeply perverse: governance discipline weakens political power.
Denial of Voting Rights to Undertrials: Blinds Spots in India's Democracy
At its heart, the challenge to Section 62(5) is a test of constitutional sincerity, of whether the Indian Republic truly believes that citizenship endures even behind bars. Enacted in the infancy of the republic, the provision has long outlived its moral logic. It collapses the distinction between confinement and culpability
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The manner in which bulldozers as tools of retaliatory State violence and punishment are being normalised now is akin to illegal 'encounter' (extra-judicial) killings which have now been normalised by police forces across the country.
Why I'm boycotting the World Cup in Qatar: FIFA stadiums built on the blood, sweat, and lives of migrant workers
I learned, too, that on average, the Gulf countries send half a dozen coffins a week to Nepal with the remains of somebody’s beloved family member. This didn’t just apply to Nepal — workers from India, Bangladesh, Pakistan, and African countries faced a similar fate.
Sri Lanka's dire food insecurity: Need for a well-planned policy framework
The root causes behind the food insecurity status of Sri Lanka are two-fold. Short-sighted policies such as the chemical fertilizer ban imposed by the Rajapaksa government generated a domino effect on agricultural production. Additionally, foreign exchange constraints severely limited food imports.
The hypocrisy of COP meetings: Be the change you want to see
As Mahatma Gandhi said we should be the change that we want to see or in other words we should practice what we preach. That is never the case. So we heard pontification on how we should reduce the carbon footprint to make this world sustainable by people who never practice sustainable living in their personal life.
Greater Bangladesh-Northeast India engagement will be a win-win for both countries
If trade and cultural relations between Bangladesh and Northeast India improve, the picture of the entire region will change.
Teachers across borders: Connecting people, learning from each other
Writers of the three winning entries, one from Pakistan and two from India, read their works out online at the Spelt conference to a full auditorium. The meritorious list included four stories from Pakistan, three from India, two from Nepal and one from the Philippines.
India’s higher education on a neoliberal path: Rankings should not sideline dissent and diversity
The ranking process is a vicious circle wherein higher-ranking institutions can mobilize more resources and vice versa. Unfortunately, those institutions which are not part of this frenzy competition will eventually be excluded from the higher education space dominated by the current neoliberal discourse.
India Space Congress 2022: Space as the fourth frontier
The space industry is keenly looking forward to the Indian government's new space policy and hoping for ease of doing business to take a practical shape.
Climate change mitigation: Will world leaders rise to the occasion to save the planet?
What applies to India can also work for other nations. So one hopes that world leaders participating in COP27 will reach actionable decisions and obtain the funding already promised by the developed countries to make a serious start to creating a sustainable global environment and avoid further climate change within the next few decades.
India’s G 20 presidency: Unique oppportunity to place nation's narratives on global agenda
There can be no doubt that the direction of the Ukraine conflict may cast a long shadow on India’s presidency.
COP27: Should South Asia learn from Africa?
Taking a cue from Africa, can South Asian countries conduct strategic and collective consultations to build a nest?
Self-reliance in combat helicopters incomplete without replacements for 'flying coffins'!
Following the crash of a Cheetah helicopter on 5 October 2022, the second such helicopter to crash this year (the earlier one was in March 2022), the Indian Army Wives Agitation Group (AWAG) wrote a letter to Prime Minister Narendra Modi expressing anguish over the continued use of the outdated Cheetah and Chetak Light Utility Helicopters (LUH), which have claimed many lives of experienced and young officers.
Ela Bhatt: One of India’s most consequential campaigners for women's empowerment and societal harmony
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Google's bigness has become bothersome: Tech giant now in India's competition watchdog's crosshairs
Interestingly CCI’s ruling was not the result of or in response to any complaint by a user, vendor, advertiser or customer. It came out of a summer project done by three student interns, who studied the EU case and its applicability to Indian conditions
