Chetan VaidyaThe COP 26 UN Climate Change Conference, took place during October- November 2021 in Glasgow, UK. It called for renewed efforts to raise ambition on cutting emissions, climate finance, adaptation, and managing the loss and damage being...
Chintamani MahapatraIn India, some foreign policy analysts declared non-alignment 2.0 to demonstrate the nation’s strategic autonomy. However, the slow but steady evolution of the India-US strategic partnership made the non-alignment strategy moribund for all practical purposes.Russian President...
Tikender Singh Panwar‘Back in the severe zone, Delhi air worst in country; ‘No need for 28-member without teeth, says Supreme Court’; ‘Local sources largely to blame for pollution’; and ‘Schools shut again as air quality turns severe –...
T K ArunThe Armed Forces (Special Powers) Act (AFSPA) must be scrapped, and counterinsurgency operations entrusted to the local police, who, in turn, must be retrained and re-equipped for the purpose. Democratic politics must give ordinary people a visible...
Amita SinghThe politics of our country is on a test drive of majoritarianism being ferociously provoked as a cause for achieving national unity. In consequence and eventually, everyone starts feeling insecure and the state appropriates a role for wartime...
Swati SolankiOn August 26, 2021, the Ministry of Labor and Employment (MOLE) launched the E-Shram, the web portal for creating a National Database of Unorganized Workers (NDUW. It is the first-ever national of its kind including Construction Workers, Migrant...
Tikender Singh PanwarThe fifth edition of the National Family Health Survey (NFHS) is out. So are the lies of the union minister of housing and urban affairs (MOHUA), Hardeep Puri who kept on harping on the construction of...
Anil TrigunayatOver two decades ago President Putin along with the then Indian PM Vajpayee had instituted this vital mechanism that had steered the bilateral relationship into a special and privileged strategic partnership.At the invitation of PM Narendra Modi the Russian...
Leo F Saldanha, Bhargavi S Rao Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s advocacy of Zero Budget Natural Farming comes after the controversial farm laws were repealed. But further critical examination is crucial.In a televised address to the nation on the...
T K ArunJoe Biden will host a summit for democracy on December 9-10. Prime Minister Narendra Modi would attend; China and Russia have not been invited. But Pakistan is an invitee. The summit provides an occasion to look at...
