Harsh V PantThe G20 was conceived in 1999 in the wake of the Asian financial crisis as a platform for finance ministers and central bank governors to deliberate on issues pertaining to global finance and economy. In 2008, it was elevated...
Harsh V Pant The Ukraine war continues to drag on with Russia now resorting to indiscriminate bombardment of Ukrainian cities and infrastructure in an attempt to seize the initiative before the winter ends.Earlier this week, the eastern Ukrainian city...
Ajay GudavarthyThe Bharat Jodo Yatra is pitched to be only partially political in the sense of not aiming exclusively at electoral outcomes. The yatra and Gandhi’s speeches have expanded the meaning and purpose of ‘politics’ beyond electoralism. He is...
Anil TrigunayatIn recent times, Pakistan has gone through an unenviable predicament of natural and man or politician-made disasters. It has gone through a regime change or a transfer of power depending on the way one looks at it. The...
KR Shyam SundarAs per Section 27 of the Industrial Relations Code passed in August 2020, if the appropriate government (the Union or the state government) is of the opinion that it is necessary or expedient that a trade union or federation of...
TK ArunThe government wants to create a mobile operating system (OS) to compete with the dominant Android, owned by Google, and Apple’s iOS operating systems that have pretty much divided up the global smartphone market (Chinese tech major Huawei...
Harsh V Pant and Sohini BoseEarlier this month, defense minister Rajnath Singh paid a two-day visit to the Andaman and Nicobar Islands where he took stock of the operational preparedness of the command and its infrastructural developments. On his...
Harsh V PantAfter a bitter campaign and closer-than-anticipated election results two months back, it had seemed that things were calming down in Brazil.When Luiz Inacio ‘Lula’ da Silva was sworn in as the new president for his third...
Arun Kumar A high inflation rate increases poverty – an issue flagged by the ILO’s Global Wages Report 2022-23. The scale of poverty in India is reflected by the government’s scheme to give free food to 81 crore poor people for...
Dr. Lakshmi PriyaAccording to the Periodic Labour Force Survey of April-June, 2020, the labour force participation of women in urban areas (age above 15 years) was 19.6. According to International Labour Organization (ILO), in 2021 it was 22.3. This...
