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Beijing has been Africa’s largest trading partner since 2008.
The Citizens Grievance Redress Bill, despite its impressive provisions, is fraught with certain inadequacies that might not appreciate the grass-root realities of public grievances - like lack of a holistic interpretation of likely grievances.
Trying to influence elections using tools like targeted messaging, fake news and negative campaigning have for long been part and parcel of politics.
From geopolitics to space cooperation, Paris has always been supportive of New Delhi’s decisions
As India is all set to take over the G20 presidency from Indonesia on 1 December 2022 till 30 November 2023, it should step up its game and distinguish itself as Africa’s partner with a difference
A country that spends 15 per cent of its Central expenditure on national defence (armed forces and DRDO) and 23 per cent on national security (armed forces and all other security forces like para-military, police) must explain to its citizens as to whether its spending on security is justifiably utilised or not.
The new budget does little to advance the very objectives the country has outlined for itself.
The Indian tendency to muddle through is likely to continue when it comes to counter-insurgency. The distance between the Army and its civilian masters is so gaping that advice, however enriched by experience and reflection, is likely to fall on deaf ears.
The US, as always, learned the hard way that it was not or need not be all that dependent on Pakistani cooperation and generosity and Pakistan was probably beginning to realise that it had exaggerated its own importance.
India needs to be aware of the potentially disastrous consequences for its national security.
India needs to become a strategic maritime power in a bid to check China's rise.
Liberalism has given us this modern world which gives primacy to the individual over his community, caste or gender.
Technology solutions for illiterate people are exclusively designed by the formally educated and that is a fundamental problem
Narendra Modi’s West Asia policy remains the one area of achievement in an otherwise indifferent record of foreign policy.
The Alliance, a concoction of tribal leaders and warlords held out in the northern parts of Afghanistan against the Taliban more than 25 years ago. However, the rapid fall of the north brought to the front that many who had previously helped the Northern Alliance, and even the US-led forces later in 2001 to depose the Taliban, were now in cahoots with the same group.
The UN report may not change India’s official position on Myanmar and New Delhi will continue its constructive engagement with the country
To correct the trend of agglomeration of wealth, young economist Thomas Picketty has suggested an annual progressive tax on wealth. He also says it will be difficult to implement it because there will always be flight to tax havens. In India, any type of wealth tax would be hardest to implement because a huge amount of wealth is already stashed away abroad.
Even as newspapers with access to the WikiLeaks exposes have come out with installments of diplomatic cable communication on US's relations with Pakistan, an impression is gaining ground that Washington was indeed struggling to get Islamabad to work to secure American interests in the region.
Political parties are the only entities which are not subject to any regulation or regulator. The phrase political parties has not been mentioned in India's constitution and post independence, the legislatures have not enacted any regulation or law governing the functioning of political parties.
Ninety per cent of North Korea’s trade is with China.
New Delhi will be hoping that Congress can continue to rein in Trump’s worst instincts.
In a first of the kind, Observer Research Foundation, Kolkata organised an inter-university debate competition on 'Panchsheel and its Relevance' on January 17 to commemorate completion of 60 years of signing the agreement.
Bilateral ties between New Delhi and Paris today cover a gamut of issues including defence, maritime, space, security, and energy.
The politics of India is changing. The change will come not just through macro measures like the introduction of large-scale manufacturing or modern agriculture, but in a number of small ways - better schools, safer cities, better urban facilities, mental institutions and jails, fairer purvey of justice and so on.
Gender disparities in economic participation and opportunities remain significantly large across the world. To bridge these gaps, G20 countries are working to advance women’s entrepreneurship through financial assistance, knowledge creation, and governance for supporting enterprise. India, in particular, has introduced a number of government schemes to promote entrepreneurship among women, such as the Pradhan Mantri Jan Dhan Yojana and the Prad
The Madras High Court¿s notice to authorities in some coastal districts of southern Tamil Nadu over the ¿public hearings¿ on the Sethusamudram project proposal has brought out a new facet in Central-State relations unnoticed by many. Coming under the Union Shipping Ministry, the Tuticorin Port Trust, entrusted with the Rs 3000-crore project,
Despite the interests both sides have for better ties, there are real limits and challenges to this.
Accountability, like any other term associated with modern good governance, is a grossly abused word in Pakistan. Just as the victors of a war determine what the terms of the peace are, the people running the government determine what sort of accountability, and whom to target with it, the country requires.
To expect that an activity which draws on all the ills of the world — fanaticism, crime, bloodshed and illegal trade — will not have a corrosive impact beyond its intended arena is unrealistic.
युनायटेड स्टेट्स FONOPs वापरून समुद्राच्या आंतरराष्ट्रीय कायद्याचे उल्लंघन करत आहे आणि चीन सारख्या इतर शक्ती त्याचे अनुसरण करीत आहेत का?
While Chinese investment and demand in renewables have been critical in the fight against climate change — single-handedly dropping world prices in the solar panel industry by nearly 80 per cent between 2008 and 2013 — there are broader implications of China’s leadership in renewable energy markets.
Given the preponderance of the Pakistan army, expecting deeper, substantive cuts in the defence budget is unrealistic, especially against the backdrop of a deteriorating security and strategic environment.
भविष्य उन लोगों का है, जो इस बात को अच्छी तरह समझते हैं कि तकनीकी और आर्थिक प्रगति ने मानव समूहों को सामाजिक रूप से एक पुरातन दौर में वापस ला दिया है. इस समय समृद्धि, प्रभाव और �
सच ये है की एक तरफ ये गिरफ्तारियां कमज़ोर होती सिविल लिबर्टी और मौलिक अधिकारों की मिसाल है, आज़ाद आवाज़ के दमन की कोशिश है, तो सच ये भी है की नक्सल्वाद अपराध है, नक्सली हिंसा भी ह�
