Anil Trigunayat India hosted the Foreign Ministers of the BRICS countries in New Delhi in the backdrop of the US and Israeli war on Iran and its fallout to the Gulf countries. A consensus eluded as Iran and the UAE...
Policy UpdateAsmatwaliBackgroundThe Chabahar Port project has, for over a decade, occupied a singular place in India’s foreign policy imagination: a deep-water gateway on Iran’s Gulf of Oman coast offering New Delhi direct maritime access to Afghanistan and Central Asia...
Policy UpdateSruti HalderBackgroundThe Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code (IBC), 2016 established a time-bound framework for resolving corporate insolvency through the National Company Law Tribunal (NCLT), the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Board of India (IBBI), and licensed Insolvency Professionals. The Insolvency and...
Policy UpdateDevanandhana CFrance’s Feminist Foreign Policy is an example of how a state can connect diplomacy, development and gender equality. This is a diplomatic approach that puts women’s and girls’ rights at the centre of action. In development cooperation...
Vishal KumarBackgroundKishtwar district has emerged as a strategic centre for hydropower development in Jammu and Kashmir because of the hydropower potential of the Chenab River and its major tributary, the Marusudar River. Hydropower development in the district began with...
Atharva SalunkeIndia’s security environment has changed fundamentally over the last decade. Conventional military threats continue to exist, but they are now accompanied by rapidly evolving challenges such as drone warfare, electronic warfare, cyber threats, precision-guided munitions, and persistent surveillance....
Policy UpdateSimona Miriam HughesBackground:The India-Nepal border has been regarded as one of the most distinctive international boundaries in the world. The boundary is approximately 1,751 kilometers, extending across Uttarakhand, Uttar Pradesh, West Bengal, Sikkim and Bihar and is...
Mansi TirthaniBackgroundIn India property ownership is one of the most significant pillars of socio-economic empowerment but for an individual Indian woman it is a source of her dignity, financial security and to gain gender equality in the society. Historically,...
Policy UpdateSimona Miriam HughesBackground:India and China’s relationship with each other has been in focus for several reasons. Both the countries have established economic cooperation and multilateral engagement with each other, but despite these engagements, both still face unresolved border...
Mansi TirthaniBackgroundOver the past decade, India’s welfare mechanism at macro economic level, has transitioned from indirect, leaky based subsidies into a more direct and digitized version focusing on asset and cash distribution networks. Based on the already existing sound...
