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Floating Cities: Promise and Peril of Seaward Urban Expansion
Urbanisation in India | Urbanisation Nov 18, 2025

Floating Cities: Promise and Peril of Seaward Urban Expansion

Floating cities are emerging as ambitious responses to rising seas and urban pressures, but their future depends on whether they can overcome formidable environmental, engineering, and governance challenges ...

Trade Winds Shift: US Tariffs Spur India-Brazil Ties
International Trade and Investment Nov 17, 2025

Trade Winds Shift: US Tariffs Spur India-Brazil Ties

High US tariffs have pushed India and Brazil towards deeper engagement, prompting both countries to expand their trade, energy, and defence partnerships. ...

The Hanoi Convention and the Contest to Shape Global Cybercrime Norms
International Affairs | Cyber Security | Cyber and Technology Nov 17, 2025

The Hanoi Convention and the Contest to Shape Global Cybercrime Norms

The UN’s cybercrime treaty reflects both the promise of multilateral cooperation and the steady erosion of liberal norms in global cyberspace governance. ...

Tracing Sustainable Value Chains: Is India Ready for the EU’s Deforestation Regulation?
Climate Change Nov 17, 2025

Tracing Sustainable Value Chains: Is India Ready for the EU’s Deforestation Regulation?

As the EU’s deforestation regulation takes effect, India must strengthen traceability and digitalisation to retain market access and move up global value chains. ...

Anchoring Climate Ambition in the Ocean: Lessons from COP30
Climate Change Nov 15, 2025

Anchoring Climate Ambition in the Ocean: Lessons from COP30

Anchoring climate ambition in the ocean is essential to limiting global warming to 1.5°C above pre-industrial levels and to safeguarding vulnerable coastal and island communities. ...

Tokyo’s Taiwan Tightrope
International Affairs Nov 15, 2025

Tokyo’s Taiwan Tightrope

As cross-strait tensions intensify, Japan’s pacifist constraints collide with the hard geography of its security environment ...

NCRB's Crime Data Needs a Comprehensive Overhaul
Domestic Politics and Governance Nov 15, 2025

NCRB's Crime Data Needs a Comprehensive Overhaul

NCRB must prioritise timely reporting, adopt clearer counting methods, ensure fuller urban coverage, and undertake its own analytical research to strengthen the credibility of India’s crime statistics ...

Xi’s Blueprint for China’s High-Quality, Secure Growth
International Affairs Nov 14, 2025

Xi’s Blueprint for China’s High-Quality, Secure Growth

At the Fourth Plenum, China’s leadership reaffirmed Xi’s push for innovation-led, secure, and sustainable growth as the cornerstone of its 15th Five-Year Plan ...

Chemical Weapons Allegations in Sudan’s Escalating Conflict
International Affairs Nov 14, 2025

Chemical Weapons Allegations in Sudan’s Escalating Conflict

Sudan’s war crimes crisis deepens as chemical weapon use allegations surface, challenging the global community’s commitment to the Chemical Weapons Convention ...

Childhood Diabetes: Sweet Risks and Health Priorities
Healthcare Nov 14, 2025

Childhood Diabetes: Sweet Risks and Health Priorities

India’s children are growing up in a world where sweetness has turned from celebration to risk, demanding stronger policies, smarter technology, and fairer care to protect their health. ...

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Dhaval Desai

Dhaval Desai

Dhaval is Senior Fellow and Vice President at Observer Research Foundation, Mumbai. His spectrum of work covers diverse topics ranging from urban renewal to international relations. He currently heads research and administrative functions at ORF Mumbai. Dhaval started his career in ...

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Shruti Jain

Shruti is an Associate Fellow at the Centre for Development Studies, Observer Research Foundation (ORF), where her research examines the intersections between policy, economic diplomacy and development, with a particular focus on how emerging economies navigate shifting geopolitical and economic ...

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