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Session ReportDolly KaushikClimate change has emerged as one of the defining policy challenges of the twenty-first century, reshaping debates on economic growth, environmental sustainability, and governance across the globe. While international discussions often focus on reducing greenhouse gas emissions...
Policy UpdateAsmatwaliBackgroundTensions between Pakistan and the Taliban-led government of Afghanistan, simmering since the Taliban’s return to power in August 2021, escalated into open warfare in late February 2026. Following weeks of militant attacks inside Pakistan, the Pakistan Air Force...
Policy UpdateAsmatwaliBackgroundPrime Minister Narendra Modi undertook a six-day, three-nation tour of Indonesia, Australia and New Zealand from 6 to 11 July 2026, comprising a State Visit to Indonesia (6-8 July), the Third India-Australia Annual Summit in Melbourne (8-10 July),...
Policy UpdateAsmatwaliBackgroundIndia and Japan trace their contemporary partnership to the 1952 Peace Treaty, progressively upgraded into a “Global Partnership” (2000), a “Global and Strategic Partnership” (2006), and the “Special Strategic and Global Partnership” (SSGP) in 2014, anchored since 2005...
Policy UpdateShruti SethiBackground On June 22, 2026, West Bengal’s newly elected Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) government, led by Chief Minister Suvendu Adhikari, presented its first full-year budget for 2026–27, ending over a decade of Trinamool Congress (TMC) rule in the...
Policy UpdateShruti SethiBackground Access to higher education in India has long been constrained less by aspiration than by affordability. West Bengal, despite a relatively strong base in school-level enrolment, has historically trailed the national average in higher education participation. It...
Policy UpdateAyan BordoloiBackgroundThe Assam Land and Revenue Regulation, 1886 is a colonial regulation which existed in a land and population very different from the current state of Assam. This system persisted for over 100 years, resulting in a large...
Policy UpdateAyan BordoloiBackgroundDiplomatic ties between India and the Philippines were established in 1949, and a Treaty of Friendship was signed in 1952, but the relationship was not very intense during these early decades for the next six decades, owing...
Policy UpdateAakash Agrawal1.IntroductionVehicular emissions are one of the largest contributors to Delhi’s chronic air quality crisis, and transport electrification has been the National Capital Territory’s central policy response since 2020. The original EV Policy was an incentive-based programme —...
Policy UpdateAakash Agrawal1. IntroductionEthanol blending mixing ethanol with petrol to reduce fossil fuel consumption is not a new idea in India; the Ethanol Blended Petrol Programme was first launched in 2003. What changed after 2018 was the scale of...
