Anil TrigunayatPresident Xi Jinping is visiting Saudi Arabia from December 7-10 for his second bilateral visit to the Kingdom since 2016, when he visited Cairo and Tehran as well in an epoch-making and biggest-ever Chinese diplomatic initiative in the...
Anil TrigunayatOn December 1, India assumed the presidency of the highly influential global grouping of major world economies- G20 from Indonesia for one year. These are unprecedented times with unprecedented challenges caused by the Covid pandemic and the Russia-Ukraine...
China will exit Zero Covid and freezing Europe will force Ukraine to sue for peaceT K ArunGovernments in Europe are asking their citizens to brace for rolling blackouts and interruptions in gas supplies to heat homes, reports The New...
The State of Cities – #CityConversations Panel Discussion on Combating Air Pollution in National Capital Region https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i_cMiYHw190National Institute of Disaster Management (NIDM), Ministry of Home Affairs, and #IMPRI Center for Habitat, Urban and Regional Studies (CHURS), IMPRI Impact and Policy Research...
TK ArunShould India worry about the price cap of $60 per barrel the European Union and the G7 have decided to impose on Russian crude? Probably not. What India can probably do is initiate the creation of a new,...
Srikanth KondapalliIn an unprecedented development since the Tiananmen Square incident in 1989, China is witnessing a series of pitched battles across the country between the commoners and the authorities on the debilitating restrictions imposed on people for the past...
Srikanth KondapalliMore than nine decades ago, on January 5, 1930, Mao Zedong wrote a letter titled “A single spark can start a prairie fire” offering an optimistic view of the communist movement that eventually spread across the country, seizing...
Harsh V Pant and Aditya Gowdara ShivamurthyA Dare for IndiaOn November 21, the Communist Party of China’s China International Development Cooperation Agency launched its first-ever Indian Ocean Region Forum. The meeting was attended by representatives and former leaders from...
Harsh V Pant It has been a calamitous start to Chinese President Xi Jinping’s third term, historic though it is. That Xi’s policies were facing a global pushback had been well accepted by Beijing and a sense that a...
Arun KumarA Supreme Court Constitution bench recently said that the Chief Election Commissioner should be one “with character” and who would not get “bulldozed” – a self-evident truth. Further, it suggested that the selection committee for the post should...
