This segment headlines one of the most important questions of our time: how should cyberspace be governed? This segment features insights from experts and emerging voices at the intersection of law, security, economics and the politics of global internet governance.
This segment provides a commentary on contemporary political and economic developments in Europe and North America from an international perspective.
This segment tracks the implementation of the sustainable development goals (SDG) in India with a focus on reproductive, maternal, neonatal and child (RMNC) health and nutrition. Starting with the processes of mainstreaming of SDGs in the national plan and the nationalisation of SDG indicator framework, segment will also regularly feature guest posts on health and nutrition.
This segment seeks to provoke new ideas about India and explore the diverse challenges facing the country. It provides a platform to increase engagement on the contemporary debates and developments in India’s social, political and economic orders.
While building institutions is hard, maintaining them is even harder. ...
While the ostensible reason for nationalisation and the obliteration of all competition was unfair practices of the companies and the protection of policyholders, neither found a mention in the new law from which LIC derives its authority, powers and products: a legislative vacuum. ...
The resolution emphasised on support for cottage, village and small-scale industries by restricting production for large players, differential taxation or direct subsidies. ...
Through the six decades of SBI’s presence, the initial objective of extending “banking facilities on a large scale, more particularly in the rural and semi-urban areas” has remained a policy fig leaf, and it is only now, through payments banks and Jan Dhan Yojana, that ...
Intermingled with ONGC’s corporate structure was India’s strategic goal of energy security, the route to which was through global acquisitions. ...
At a time when India was emerging from the aftermath of Partition and shortages, the objective of this Act was to protect citizens from exploitation by unscrupulous traders. ...
Finance Commissions decide the distribution taxes between the centre and the states, and is the key financial lever determining the federal structure of the Indian economy. ...
If airlines symbolised the travel of the rich, they should logically have been banned altogether or taxed heavily. Instead, the government nationalised them, destroyed the civil aviation industry and set India back by decades. ...
The law declared “in the public interest” — a term that would get echoed over the next five decades for several laws and policies, to mean the curbing of all economic freedom — that the central government “should take under its control” the industries specified ...
Akshay Shetty leads the collaborative-building efforts on climate action at ClimateRISE ...
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Kirti Jain leads the research and knowledge-building initiatives in inclusive and equitable climate action at ClimateRISE team ...
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