Harini NagendraIndia has been urbanizing rapidly in recent years, but the poorly managed urban growth and development have exacerbated inequalities, exclusion, and vulnerabilities, especially among the marginalized population. Additionally, sustainability issues also need to be prioritized to determine the...
Gurinder KaurRecent havoc in the Chamoli district of Uttarakhand, where a large part of the Nanda Devi Glacier fell into the Alaknanda stream near Joshimath, caused severe flooding. The rapid flow of water caused mountain slides that fell into...
Srikanth ViswanathanThe budget season is upon us. The Union budget, which lays out the receipt and expenditure proposals of the Government of India, is an annual feature in Parliament on February 1. It receives extensive press coverage — in...
Simi Mehta, Ritika Gupta, Manoswini SarkarClimate change is one of the most pressing issues that the world is collectively facing at the moment. It is contended that strengthening the global response is pertinent to combat the threat of climate...
Soumyadip Chattopadhyay, Arjun Kumar, Ritika Gupta, Sunidhi Agarwal, Nikhil JacobThe pandemic pushed the Indian economy to the greatest crisis that it ever had to face, leading to its collapse in the month of April/May 2020. Although the official data...
Soumyadip Chattopadhyay, Arjun Kumar, Anshula Mehta, Nikhil JacobThe Union Budget 2021 has taken a cue from the Economic Survey and focused on growth. In fact, it talks only about growth and not about mitigating inequalities, remarked Dr Jyotsna Jha,...
Tikender PanwarExcept in a few, both urban and rural, elections to the local bodies passed off peacefully in Himachal Pradesh a few weeks ago. Municipal ward councilors were elected in the urban centers. Rural areas went through a three-tier...
Soumyadip Chattopadhyay, Arjun Kumar, Anshula Mehta, Nikhil JacobThe decade of 2010 – 2020 could be considered as the ‘lost decade’. The uncertainties surrounding a possible change in government during the early years, the haphazard rollout of the demonetization exercise,...
Budget 2021 was riding on a wave of immense expectations, given that the Indian economy was battered to a record low due to structural and cyclical issues, compounded by the impact of the pandemic. To decode what the Budget...
Gurinder KaurOn February 15, 2021, a three-judge green bench headed by Chief Justice of India S A Bobde allowed the Himachal Pradesh government to clear 614 hectares of forest and move ahead with 138 currently existing infrastructure projects. Apart...
