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...
Arun Kumar The rural economy is complex, consisting of industry, services, and agriculture. But these activities are largely in the unorganized sector with incomes lower than those in the urban areas. That is why, in spite of around 70...
IMPRI TeamAn informative and elucidating online panel discussion on “Domestic Violence and Abuse: Challenges and Responses” was an initiative of the Gender Impact Studies Center (GISC), at the IMPRI Impact and Policy Research Institute, New Delhi held on December...
