India’s security forces are replacing seasonal pauses with sustained counterterror operations across Jammu and Kashmir ...
Myanmar’s managed elections consolidate military rule, risk escalating armed resistance, and create complex strategic and diplomatic challenges for India ...
Union Budget 2026 casts India’s maritime domain as a strategic engine, aligning inland connectivity, manufacturing, and heritage with economic resilience and global ambition ...
Big Tech’s data centres and AI growth are driving emissions and environmental pressures, raising questions about real sustainability ...
India's true middle class is the tax-paying elite; the bottom half needs budget focus on jobs, free education/health, PDS-MSP food security, and state transfers—not tax cuts ...
ES 2025-26 shifts India from resilience to indispensability via macro strength, entrepreneurial state, GVCs, and geoeconomic strategy—despite implementation gaps ...
Through the OSA, Japan is adapting its diplomacy to an Indo-Pacific marked by contested influence and shifting power balances ...
In 2026, the digital battlefield will be defined by autonomous AI, looming quantum threats, and an expanding attack surface that together demand a fundamental rethink of how cyber risk is governed and managed ...
Xi's PLA purges spark domestic unease, but Chinese media spins anti-graft campaign as vital for military strength ...
By linking two vast markets, the EU-India Free Trade Agreement signals a strategic push towards diversification, resilience, and deeper economic alignment in an increasingly volatile geo-economic landscape ...
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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