Policy UpdateChetan GuptaThe Southern Ocean is the broad ocean that encircles the Antarctic continent. It is the second-smallest of the five oceans, larger than the Arctic Ocean but smaller than the Pacific, Atlantic, and Indian Oceans. The Southern Ocean...
TK ArunThe fictional entertainment for credulous children contained in the World Bank’s recent report on inequality relates to its assertion that India is the world’s fourth least unequal country. Image: iStockIf you thought fairytales were all written long, long...
Policy updateUrvashi SinghalBackgroundThe Ministry of Parliamentary Affairs (MoPA) is one of the most important agencies of the Government of India, which is tasked with coordinating and facilitating legislative business between Parliament’s two houses, Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha. Founded...
Policy UpdateSrishti SinhaBackground eTaal (Electronic Transaction Aggregation & Analysis Layer) is an initiative by the Government of India, developed by the National Informatics Centre (NIC) under the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY). It serves as a centralised platform...
Policy UpdateRashmi KumariIntroduction India’s rapid urbanization has led to enormous pressure on its transport systems, and the urban population of India is expected to reach around 600 million by 2031(National Commission on Population, 2019), resulting in heavily congested, polluted, and...
Harsh V PantVivek MishraFor anyone who is piqued by US President Donald Trump’s deceptive diplomacy, where ‘strategic ambiguity’ is a policy choice, his volte face on North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) offers key insights. During the recently-held NATO summit...
The government’s new Research, Development and Innovation scheme is half-hearted hope masquerading as policy. True, it talks big money: Rs 1 trillion, for private sector R&D, which, at present, is vanishingly small, and certainly needs a policy-induced boost. But...
TK ARUNMeanwhile, as China forges ahead in artificial intelligence and robotics, India is stuck with half-baked R&D schemes.US President Donald Trump has got his tax and spending cuts through Senate, although one amendment to the bill has stripped it...
Arun KumarGST WAS LAUNCHED ON JULY 1, 2017 with the promise that it would transform the Indian economy. It was characterized as a second freedom since it would unify the nation. Eight years later, it is time to assess its...
Policy UpdateElenora Tu’uBackgroundIndia’s Ministry of Power (MoP) stands at a pivotal crossroad—balancing an ambitious scaling of renewable energy and electrification with the urgent necessity to reform entrenched financial and infrastructural bottlenecks. Its ability to drive DISCOM reform, grid modernization,...
