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By collaborating with neighbouring countries, India can serve as a catalyst for positive change and promote food security and sustainable development
Constructing a border of cooperation with Bangladesh should liberate India from one of major geopolitical constraints imposed on it by the Partition of Bengal. When he travels to Dhaka in the near future, Modi is in a position to unveil a genuine strategic partnership with Bangladesh.
The Dhaka Global Dialogue will provide an excellent opportunity to discuss and debate the core developmental issues in the Asian century where all nat
Whatever be the academic arguments, the die has been cast in Dhaka for a definitive contest between the forces of progress and regression. The outcomes are likely to have a lasting impact on the subcontinent's political future and India's regional security environment. It is time Delhi's political classes paid some serious attention to the developments in Bangladesh.
The complexity of Mumbai’s geography along with its bursting population has created lopsided informalities that the city needs to reconsider.
Commander of the US Seventh Fleet, Vice Admiral Scott H. Swift, feels that dialogues and frank discussions are the best solution to the ongoing disputes in the Indo-Pacific region.
There is a strong feeling that the signing of a Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement between Japan and India has not led to the full utilisation of the potential that exists for larger trade and investment. Further efforts should therefore be undertaken to realise those ends.
Reflecting the current geopolitical realities, India’s position on Iran’s oil import vastly differs from its position on Russia
Despite public display of affection, all is not well in the India-Russia relationship.
The reported ban on two television news channels in Uttar Pradesh has exposed the lack of rules when in face-offs between politicians (or perhaps, ruling politicians) and the media. There were earlier reports that the Central government had requested Google to take down posts that criticised it.
The recent trilateral meeting is an indication of growing economic and political ties between the Abraham Accord partners. As India shares close bonds
The US's war in Iraq is over but it has ended in a fiasco. Iraq is unstable and Iran is emerging as the strongest force in the region.
Elections will not be won or lost because of events in Sri Lanka, but Sri Lanka could be lost because of our electoral politics. Our PM's absence in Colombo at this juncture is akin to a public snub to Sri Lanka and the vacuum that we create and show little intention or urgency to fill, can only be filled by one country - China.
Terrorism in Chechnya has three major trajectories ' first, the terrorist campaign of the Chechens and others who are a part of the international terrorist network and who derive legitimacy from Islamic fundamentalism and whose fight is not just against the alleged oppression of the Russian state, but also to establish Islamic rule in Chechnya and to facilitate its integration with the pan-Islamic world.
China's decision to sell two additional nuclear power reactors to Pakistan has dimensions that need to be better understood. China is persisting with its internationally destabilizing proliferation activity.
Although the Digi Yatra aims to make airports future-ready, it does not tackle the real causes of congestion in airports
Open societies have always defended their borders stoutly and they must also safeguard the new digital frontlines
As technology is growing by leaps and bounds, and its interplay with democracy has magnified, is it time to place regulations on digital democracy?
दुनिया के विकासशील या कम विकसित देश वैसी तकनीक के साथ जीत�
भारत में कमज़ोर और निम्न आय वर्गों का उत्थान सुनिश्चित क�
To make cities catastrophe proof, digital solutions need to be adopted, prioritised and made available for all
With plans of launching the digital euro project, the Eurozone aims at producing “a riskless, accessible and efficient form of central bank money”
India will become a digital society. It is also deploying all the right pieces and infrastructure for a digital economy. The foundation for both will be the cloud ecosystem, which, however, needs to be protected through a robust policy and legal framework.
People in smaller cities of India were more hopeful about the prospects of Digital India than the people in big cities which are traditionally thought of as 'tech savvy', according to a survey conducted by Observer Research Foundation.
आज जब दुनिया दिन पर दिन नए डिजिटल आविष्कारों को अपना रही ह
In the coming years, many will be watching to see whether mobile network operators will manage to retain the 2.8 million new mobile money subscribers
The Kashmir floods have exposed our communication faultlines. Why is there no disaster management plan in the case of a communication blackout? This is perhaps even more pertinent given that the remote corners of India, be they coastal, mountainous or otherwise, are not well connected to modern telecom networks.
Whole brain function is required to support not only analysis functions — where we zoom in to see the detail — but also synthesis functions where
2019 की विधि रिपोर्ट ने पाया कि 89 प्रतिशत निचली अदालतों की वे
The lack of initiative and political will has led to the marginalisation of the SAARC sector of disaster management from mainstream efforts in South A
India has projected its soft power for centuries, long before the concept was even defined by political analysts. In the past decade, the country wielded its soft power in a more systematic way in the practice of diplomacy. Prime Minister Narendra Modi, in power since 2014, is becoming known for his passionate use of India’s soft-power assets through both an effective media management strategy and an intelligent use of social media. This Brief
Despite the Chinese government's repeated stress on disaster reduction and regards it as an important factor to realise the overall goal of sustainable development, more needs to be done on disaster management and prevention.
This brief seeks to understand the importance of Humanitarian Aid and Disaster Relief (HADR) initiatives in the Bay of Bengal undertaken by the BIMSTEC countries individually, and the dynamics of their collaboration as a subregional forum. It opens with an analysis of the turbulent nature of the Bay of Bengal, because of which disaster management gains paramount importance for the littoral states. The aim is to understand the BIMSTEC countries’
The privatisation of electricity distribution seems imminent as legislations aim to expand the role of the private sector in this domain
The COVID19 pandemic is a wake-up call to the world to realise that the sustainability quotient, in terms of the scale that city population densities
By curtailing the effectiveness of the Armed Forces Tribunals, the Government is destroying the military justice system which is a disservice to serving and retired personnel
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has given enough reasons for President Pervez Musharraf to feel at ease. His unambiguous expression of not letting the peace process between the two countries flag should lay to rest speculations and allegations in Pakistan about India's commitment to peace in the region.
Critics of the aircraft carrier fail to appreciate the political objectives that maritime power is meant to further
With the idea to dispel doubts about the India story abroad, Observer Research Foundation brought together the spokespersons of the two rival parties, the ruling Congress Party and the Opposition BJP, at a platform arranged by the US India Business Council (USIBC) in Washington on 18 September.
As the US’s global leadership in upholding the rules-based order will be stretched, regional actors will have to rise to the occasion and maintain o
Now is time for India to rise to the challenge and be the leader in the opening up of the aviation sector.
