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SAIL’s Defence-Grade Steel Supply: Advancing India’s Defence Indigenisation
Policy UpdateSimona Miriam HughesBackground:India has undergone a significant change especially in the defence sector over the past few years mainly due to important indigenous...
India’s Defence Export Diplomacy: Implementing The India–Philippines BrahMos Missile Agreement (2024–2026)
Policy UpdateSimona Miriam HughesBackground:The India-Philippines Brahmos Missile Agreement is known to be one of the major landmark developments in India’s development as a credible...
Building India’s Credit Backbone: The National Financial Information Registry (2023)
Policy UpdateSruti HalderBackgroundThe National Financial Information Registry (NFIR) was announced by Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman in her Union Budget 2023-24 speech as a proposed...
Gender-Inclusive Sanitation: The Role Of Pink Toilets In Urban India (2017)...
Policy UpdateKajal VargaonkarBackgroundThe Pink Toilet Scheme represents a gender-responsive sanitation intervention launched by diverse municipal corporations and state authorities within the framework of the...
National Sports Governance Act 2025: From Ad-Hoc Oversight To Statutory Reform...
Policy UpdateSandra MenonIntroductionFor years, Indian sport operated on an unwritten principle: no matter how messy a federation’s internal politics became, courts and ad hoc...
Social Stock Exchange In India: Assessing The Role Of Capital Markets...
Policy UpdateArya Gupta1.BackgroundIn the past, all of India’s social sector (an estimated 3 million-plus registered NPOs) had been relying on philanthropy, government grants or...
Nature-Based Flood Governance In Northeast India: Evaluating Assam’s Wetland-Based Flood Mitigation...
Policy UpdatePurbaa JagannathIntroductionAssam’s relationship with flooding is not new, but the vocabulary of its flood policy is changing. For decades, the state’s response to...
DEMOCRATIZING DIGITAL COMMERCE: ONDC AND THE FUTURE OF MARKET COMPETITION IN...
Policy UpdateVibha SethiBackground and EvolutionThe Indian e-commerce landscape has historically been dominated by a duopoly, where a few multinational aggregators controlled market access, search...
Pradhan Mantri Surya Sarovar Yojana (2026): Advancing India’s Floating Solar Infrastructure
Policy UpdateTanisha HoodaBackgroundThe rapid growth of solar photovoltaic (SPV) technology has become a key driver of the global shift towards low-carbon energy systems. Declining...
Insurance Amendment Act: Decoding The 2025 Reform
Policy UpdateSruti HalderBackgroundThe Sabka Bima Sabki Raksha (Amendment of Insurance Laws) Act, 2025 represents the most sweeping overhaul of India’s insurance regulatory architecture since...
