This year’s budget has laid out the framework for a digitally-led India, with special emphasis placed upon digitalising finance ...
Amid rising debt, government bets that big infrastructure spending is not just growth-enhancing, but also popular ...
Against the backdrop of the pandemic, the budget continues to club the health sector with the social determinants of health ...
Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman budget remains unassuming in grand announcements, matter of fact in its outlook, and deglamorised in form—just the way a Union Budget ought to be ...
Keeping in line with the security needs of India, the defence budget saw a significant increase. Will this be enough to boost defence research and development? ...
As the “debt-trap” criticism intensifies, Chinese commentators have proposed their own counternarrative on the Sri Lankan debt crisis ...
The Myanmar coup has left India in a tight spot as it continues to factor in its strategic interests in Myanmar ...
This year’s survey encompasses the massive changes that the country has had to go through over the decades in the long term as well as through the pandemic ...
Despite projecting close ties with Vietnam, the ground reality reflects a different story ...
As a proper resolution of the Rohingya crisis is nowhere in sight, adequate measures need to be undertaken to provide Rohingyas with a suitable environment to live in ...
Sayantan Haldar is an Associate Fellow with ORF’s Strategic Studies Programme. At ORF, Sayantan’s work is focused on Maritime Studies. He is interested in questions on geopolitics, maritime security, and regionalism in the Indian Ocean, and the Arctic. Sayantan holds a PhD ...
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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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