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Need for reviewing NELP policies |
| Experts have suggested that there is a need for reviewing the NELP (National Exploration Licensing Policy) to accommodate signals being sent to the energy market on pricing and regulatory aspects. |
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Funding solar projects needs Govt. push: Experts
18 January 2012 |
| According to experts, captive power generation offers immense potential for converting into solar based power consumer. However, this change requires a mandatory push from the government through regulations or incentives. |
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Small Hydro: Too Small for a National Mission?
28 November 2011 |
| As India braces itself for an over-ambitious Jawaharlal Nehru National Solar Mission, it also has to deliberate the prospects of developing other renewable energy resources. Of all the non-conventional renewable energy sources, small hydro represents the highest density resource. |
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BLUE REVOLUTION: Charting South Asia’s Water Future
September, 2011 |
| Water is a scarce natural resource with multifaceted uses cutting across class, economic and political boundaries. Evaluating and recognizing the importance of water in different spheres of life is where the trouble begins. |
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Water Security in South Asia: Issues and Policy Recommendations
09 February 2011 |
| This brief is largely based on several discussions organised at Observer Research Foundation over a period of time. These discussions were enriched by the presence of some of the well-known experts on water issues in the country. |
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| $ 150 Oil Comes Back by the Backdoor |
| 11 June 2013 |
| Lydia Powell |
This column has maintained that India's most immediate energy security challenge is its exposure to oil price volatility and not Chinese oil companies buying up hydrocarbon assets around the world. |
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Talking Tokyo
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| 27 May 2013 |
| C. Raja Mohan |
"Don't provoke China" has been the mantra behind New Delhi's recent "go slow" strategy with Japan. At the very moment when many Asian countries are frightened by the prospect of China's non-peaceful rise and are looking to Indian leadership in constructing a stable Asian balance of power, Delhi seems trapped in strategic hesitation. |
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| TV media as the new mom and dad |
| 14 May 2013 |
| Maansi Parpiani |
It was not a big surprise that the Bill that came into force as the 'The Criminal Law (Amendment) Act 2013' on April 3 retained the age of consent at 18, taking away from the teenagers the right to make their sexual choices; |
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| North Korean imbroglio: Who can do what? |
16 April 2013
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| Dr. Rajeswari Pillai Rajagopalan |
While on the surface, both the US (and South Korea and Japan) and China appear to have the goal of seeing a stable Korean Peninsula, there appear to be serious differences about what regional stability means. |
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| ATT implementation remains questionable |
06 April 2013
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| Rahul Prakash |
The ATT has finally been adopted. But it remains to be seen if the treaty could really be implemented as major players like China, India, Russia have not favoured it. |
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| No closure to India-China border flare- up |
24 May 2013
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| Manoj Joshi |
Just because China now seems to be in a hurry to move on the border issue should not be cause for New Delhi to reciprocate. We need to weigh the issues carefully and see what serves our interest the best. |
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| Time for hard questions on Sino-Indian relationship's future |
| 21 May 2013 |
| Samir Saran and Abhijit Iyer-Mitra |
India and China must bilaterally develop a substantial conversation on the cutting edge of global governance issues, including issues of the global commons like climate change, water, health and medicine, and Asian security architecture, as well as issues of space and proliferation, of rules and mechanisms of economic governance, and on new arenas of maritime and ocean governance. |
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