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T.K. ARUNIndia’s AI ambitions in national security will falter without scientific temper, institutional reform and a retreat from sectarian politics.Artificial Intelligence (AI) has been the subject of many brainstorming sessions by different interest groups, ranging from trade unions anxious...
T.K. ARUNThe summit of the elites feels different this time, thanks to Trump and the disruptions he is wreaking on the world. When the going gets crazy, in-person meetings reacquire significance for decision-makers.Davos is back in the spotlight, not...
T.K. ARUNTrump’s revival of imperial doctrine upends global norms, pressures India strategically, and demands stronger sovereignty, economic resilience, and principled opposition.More than a whiff of the 19th century wafts into the 21st, thanks to President Donald Trump’s White House,...
T.K. ARUNIt is a Board for Undermining the UN and the rest of the multilateral framework.“Will you walk into my parlour?” said a spider to a fly;“‘Tis the prettiest little parlour that ever you did spy.The way into my...
ARUN KUMARIt is hard to accept that India would have remained stagnant but for the colonial rule. Actually, we may have modernised faster and as per our own blueprint if we had not been disrupted by the British colonial...
ARUN KUMARGDP is taken to give an idea of the production of goods and services in an economy. Because of the huge diversity of what is produced in a modern society, aggregation becomes difficult. GDP yields one monetary number...
ARUN KUMARIf there was one feature that characterised the Indian economy in 2025, it was uncertainty. This stemmed from both internal and external factors. The penal tariffs imposed on India by US President Donald Trump were central to this...
Policy UpdateMadhu SwarajBackground The Rashtriya Yuva Sashaktikaran Karyakram (RYSK) is the flagship Central Sector Umbrella Scheme of the Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports, Government of India. Formulated during the 12th Five-Year Plan, the scheme was restructured in 2016 to...
Press ReleaseTulsi KumariThe IMPRI Center for ICT for Development (CICTD), IMPRI Impact and Policy Research Institute, New Delhi, hosted an interactive panel discussion on “Education, S&T, R&D and Union Budget 2026-27” on February 8, 2026 (Sunday) at 10:30 a.m....
Policy UpdateRiya SinghBackgroundeGramSwaraj is a flagship digital governance policy initiative of the Government of India launched under the e-Panchayat Mission Mode Project (MMP) on 24 April 2020. Developed by the National Informatics Centre (NIC) and spearheaded by the Ministry...
