Since the dispute started off nearly a century ago, the two riparian states — Karnataka and Tamil Nadu — have been contending on self-interest over a finite resource. Despite several efforts to resolve this dispute, State governments have not seen eye to eye.
Market mechanisms — more than policy interventions — are perhaps efficient interlocutors of the success of the startups' ecosystem.
For the first time in last four years, the Modi government has expressed a willingness to hold talks with the Hurriyat. The acknowledgment of separatists as stakeholders by the Modi government in itself is a big development.
If Sagarmala is to succeed, it must define steps to manage and contain pollution.
Setting up skills universities across the country is an ambitious and expansive initiative. It cannot afford to fall prey to the ignorance of the political class, bureaucratic red tape or ministerial turf wars.
Notwithstanding various government claims of its achievements, relationship between different institutions, both autonomous as well as official, and the Modi government has been at best uneasy.
The Karnataka electorate did not give a clear mandate to any party. But it happens in democracies that follow the first past the post system.
Should Prime Minister Narendra Modi return to power in 2019, we know the foundations upon which new policies would be built. Should he lose the 2019 elections, it would still push the next government in the same direction.
Every successful encounter is causing more recruitments — the security establishment is caught between the conundrum: to kill the militants or not.
Siranush Melikyan is an Assistant Professor at the Yerevan State University. ...
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Tigran Yepremyan is the Dean of the Faculty of International Relations and an Associate Professor of World History and IR at the Yerevan State University, Armenia. ...
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