Union Budget 2026–27 recasts development spending as an investment in assets, employment, and industrial capability within a constrained fiscal envelope ...
The Trump administration’s approval for South Korea to build nuclear-powered attack submarines strengthens deterrence against North Korea while raising concerns over non-proliferation and regional stability ...
Union Budget 2026–27 illustrates India’s turn towards a more disciplined geoeconomic posture, where external fiscal commitments are shaped by deliverability, compliance, and regional stability ...
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 interests and influence expand, it needs calibrated economic, symbolic, and military playbooks to deter distant adversaries ...
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 ...
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 outlines an ambitious vision for India’s health sector, but modest funding increases, persistent underspending, and muted fiscal action reveal a gap between policy intent and budgetary follow-through ...
Budget 2026–27 places AVGC on the national skilling map, but outcomes hinge on stackable learning and industry-validated talent pipelines ...
Niranjan Sahoo, PhD, is a Senior Fellow with ORF’s Governance and Politics Initiative. With years of expertise in governance and public policy, he now anchors studies and programmes on democracy, human rights, federalism, electoral reforms (particularly issues related to political ...
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Niranjan Sahoo, PhD, is a Senior Fellow with ORF’s Governance and Politics Initiative. With years of expertise in governance and public policy, he now anchors studies and programmes on democracy, human rights, federalism, electoral reforms (particularly issues related to political ...
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