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...
A Amarender ReddyAbstractScientific policy-making should be solely based on valid evidence and scientific merit and not be driven by a stand either for or against GM crops. The government’s Genetic Engineering Appraisal Committee (GEAC) recently recommended the environmental release...
Anil TrigunayatProtests and Zero Covid connectionPresenting his eulogistic report card at the recently held 20th Communist Party Congress (CPC), President Xi Jinping claimed his ‘Zero Covid’ policy was a grand success as he was crowned for the 3rd time. But the same...
Tikender Singh PanwarBy providing affordable meals to the poor and working class and launching a new accommodation facility for women, the City Council is showing how a 21st-century urban center can govern with compassion and empathy.Kochi, the name describes...
