Budgetary allocations bode well for India’s foreign and security policies ...
India–France space cooperation, rooted in strategic autonomy and decades of technological trust, is quietly evolving to shape a more contested and commercialised space order ...
Takaichi’s earlier remarks on Taiwan have made foreign policy a key pillar of the election campaign, signalling a harder security line that has intensified tensions with China ...
Budget 2026 reveals how India’s aid diplomacy remains anchored in neighbourhood-first commitments, even as global uncertainty tempers its broader development ambitions ...
As India's DPI 2.0 evolves UPI into universal data empowerment, boosting productivity and inclusion, it also needs interoperability, competition safeguards, and trust via consent to avoid exclusion ...
Union Budget 2026–27 offers little real support for India’s growing, vulnerable elderly population ...
Behind the drama playing out over the US Federal Reserve lies a story about compromises made in every Western economy. ...
The India-US relationship now is shaped by forces and communities far larger than the world of officialdom ...
As ocean-based climate solutions gain prominence, weak evidence, limited monitoring, and premature policy support risk turning the promise of the blue economy into a new frontier of greenwashing ...
Budget 2026–27 places AVGC on the national skilling map, but outcomes hinge on stackable learning and industry-validated talent pipelines ...
Dr. Chaitanya Giri is a Fellow at ORF’s Centre for Security, Strategy and Technology. His work focuses on India’s space ecosystem and its interlinkages with the global space economy, academia-industry innovation and training interface for emerging STEM domains, and the ...
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Soma Sarkar is an Associate Fellow with ORF’s Urban Studies Programme. Her research interests span the intersections of environment and development, urban studies, water governance, Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH), GESI (Gender Equality and Social Inclusion), climate change adaptation, city resilience, ...
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