Policy UpdateSairaj PatilBackground: The Government of India, under the Apprentices Act, 1961, implements the National Apprenticeship Promotion Scheme (NAPS) as one of two flagship Central Sector schemes supporting apprenticeship engagement in the country. Launched in August 2016 and continued as...
Policy Update Mansi TirthaniBackgroundFor decades, emergency communications operated within localized, siloed and web of copper wired telecommunications networks. These telephonic architectures were fragmented and primarily relied on citizens remembering distinct things. Where each public emergency service has unique digits...
Aditi Narayani PaswanRecently, there has been a renewed interest in Indian Knowledge Systems (IKS), not only in India but around the world. When one talks of IKS, one immediately thinks of classical Sanskrit texts and elite academies. There is...
Anil TrigunayatSyrian President Ahmed Al Sharaa, aka Mohammed Al Julani, is trying to navigate a difficult regional dynamic, especially in the Levant, as the conflict continues to escalate on several fronts, from Lebanon to Gaza to Israel to the...
Swaran SinghWith the Quadrilateral Security Dialogue (Quad) losing much of its diplomatic momentum, the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) has been gradually reclaiming its centrality in the Indo-Pacific.The clearest evidence emerged this week as Manila hosted the ASEAN...
Santosh MehrotraIndia’s desire to become Viksit Bharat by 2047 can be fulfilled only if the economy grows at 8% annually for the next 21 years. But such optimism overlooks a structural crisis. The headline GDP numbers conceal a blurred...
Anil TrigunayatThe Iran, US and Israel war has taken so many twists and turns, and the public display of Trumpian outbursts, Iranian calculations and Israeli defiance of any diktat or deal have the potential to derail the 14-point or...
Policy UpdateSruti HalderBackgroundThe National Asset Reconstruction Company Limited (NARCL) was conceived in the Union Budget 2021-22 as India’s government-backed “bad bank,” designed to aggregate and resolve large legacy non-performing assets (NPAs) sitting on the books of public sector banks...
Policy UpdateSruti HalderBackgroundThe National Asset Reconstruction Company Limited (NARCL) was conceived in the Union Budget 2021-22 as India’s government-backed “bad bank,” designed to aggregate and resolve large legacy non-performing assets (NPAs) sitting on the books of public sector banks...
Policy UpdateSruti HalderBackgroundThe National Asset Reconstruction Company Limited (NARCL) was conceived in the Union Budget 2021-22 as India’s government-backed “bad bank,” designed to aggregate and resolve large legacy non-performing assets (NPAs) sitting on the books of public sector banks...
