Policy UpdatePrashail TripathiBACKGROUND:SMART-PDS is a centrally sponsored, technology-oriented reform initiative by the Department of Food & Public Distribution (DFPD), Ministry of Consumer Affairs, aimed at enhancing and consolidating the IT infrastructure of India’s Public Distribution System (PDS). With a...
Policy UpdateElenora Tu’uBackground:India–New Zealand Agri-Tech Innovation is emerging as more than a technical exchange; it is a contest over models of innovation and inclusion. At a time when agriculture faces the twin pressures of climate resilience and global market...
Arun KumarChanges in GST slabs by itself will be inadequate to face the challenge of the penal tariffs proposed by the US.There is much talk of the proposed simplification of India’s complex GST regime. Prime minister Narendra Modi in...
Srikanth KondapalliIn the wake of menacingly constraining US policies, New Delhi actively participated in shaping a multipolar agenda.Having made incremental progress in getting the Pahalgam terror attacks inscribed in the 25th Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) summit joint statement at...
Policy UpdateMadhur ThaparBackground India and Japan have found common cause at sea as the Indo-Pacific becomes the world’s strategic center. For Japan, the sea lanes through the Malacca Strait are its economic lifeline. For India, security across the Indian Ocean...
Srikanth KondapalliThe SCO summit at Tianjin in China, followed by a spectacular military display in Beijing, signal a resolve to contest the vagaries of the Trump Administration and tweak the global and regional orders.Leaders at the SCO Summit 2025...
Vaibhav DasThe 5 “stans” form the Central Asian region, namely Kazakhstan (Astana), Uzbekistan (Tashkent), Turkmenistan (Ashabat), Kyrgyzstan (Bishkek), and Tajikistan (Dushanbe). Andre Gunder Frank compares Central Asia to a “black hole in the middle of the world” and argues...
Tashvi ChawlaThe world has never seen so many alliances yet so little global peace. The international system is crowded with security alliances, NATO, AUKUS, QUAD, BRICS+, I2U2, yet wars rage across Ukraine, Gaza, Yemen, Sudan and beyond. Trust among...
Rishya DharmaniBRICS travelled from the world of fiction to an institutional reality in 2009, with Brazil, Russia, India and China coming together. Two years later, South Africa joined this poster group of the developing world. Currently occupying a commanding...
Soumyadip ChattopadhyayAccording to the Sustainable Development Report (SDR) 2025, India has ranked 99th out of 167 countries.According to the Sustainable Development Report (SDR) 2025, India has ranked 99th out of 167 countries. This is an improvement over the ranks...
