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If people’s faith in electoral process is shaken or eroded then it will have dangerous consequences for the democratic system and polity.
Better employment opportunities, better health care and schools, availability of safe drinking water are top three voters’ priorities followed by th
China’s growing influence operations necessitates the implementation of proper measures to ensure election security
India is at a precarious juncture. Our democratic structures might be strong, but can the same be said for our democratic values?
The pragmatic relationship between the civilian government and the Tatmadaw is becoming increasingly difficult to sustain.
A day after the Myanmar elections, conflict started between the army and a faction of the Karen ethnic armed group, pushing thousands of Karen villagers into Thailand. This incident does not suggest smooth beginning for the country's political transition and the possibility of more such conflicts cannot be ruled out
Bangladesh’s domestic political climate remains highly charged as it heads for election in 2024 despite nationwide protests
हाशिये पर खड़े दक्षिणपंथी (right-wing parties) दलों के मुख्यधारा में �
The strategy of the 16-party United Iraqi Alliance is to institutionalise Shia majority and defer confrontation with the U.S. to a later stage.
नेपाल में लोकतंत्र (democracy) भद्दी राजनीति बनकर रह गया है. शाय�
The Ukraine conflict, generational shifts, and electionic machines are new entities to Russian elections
While Elections-2007, which returned the ruling BJP and Chief Minister Narendra Modi to power against the expectations of the English language media in the country, it only helped focus on what has now come to be termed as the 'Gujarat model of development'.
At the heart of the debate on electoral reforms lies the vexed issue of campaign finance reform. There are four fundamental questions that need to be answered to understand this conundrum. A related but standalone issue is that of state funding of elections.
Dr. Anupam Chander, Professor of Law at UC Davis, says a specific rule which necessitates the consent of data subject in order to process the data coming from foreign countries in India is effectively discouraging foreign investments in India.
With electronic snooping here to stay, the larger question is not of ethics or privacy, but of regulation, protection and the provision of strong legal remedies
India and Australia must raise the level of their engagement, going beyond pre-planned exercises and sporadic deployments
Why do Indian and Pakistani leaders succumb to the predictable? There's so much déjà vu about their peace process being derailed by border firings and terrorist strikes that the wider world has begun to yawn
Nepalese Prime Ministers generally prefer to call on New Delhi for their first foreign visit after assuming office. The urgency for Prime Minister Sher Bahadur Deuba's visit was, however, accentuated by nearly a week-long effective blockade of Kathmandu imposed by the Maoist insurgents.
Relic diplomacy can substantively contribute to India’s foreign policy gains and thus ought to be explored
As long as Yameen claims to be working within the four walls of the Constitution, there is nothing much that third nations could do on the ground.
The presence and influence of the Naxalites are increasing dramatically and rapidly in various parts of the country while we remain engaged in endless debates on how to address the problem.
India is seen as a bridging power that can narrow the divide between the developed and developing countries through the use and regulation of new and
As part of a three-year research project undertaken by ORF and PRIO to study and analyse urban governance, urban security and environment related trends and concerns in selected regions of India, an international conference was organised on "Emerging Challenges in an Urbanising India: Governance, Security and Climate Change".
With Al Qaeda far from being vanquished, and Pakistan and Bangladesh inevitably turning into jihadi outposts in the emerging pan-Islamist network in Asia, India is more than likely to be caught in the vicious tail-wind of the next wave of terrorism, gathering momentum since 9/11.
The future of Bangladesh-India hydro-relations will not only be contingent upon what New Delhi and Dhaka will think, but will also be dependent on the
While the idea that emotional appeal is central to political persuasion may serve common intuition, the dynamics underscoring how and why this is so, remain underexplored. This primer collates insights from neuroscience and political psychology to show why emotions are essential to vote choice. It explores the effects of emotional appeals on voter perceptions using examples from campaign advertisements in US elections. The analysis finds that pol
A single deft move in the 18th century secured the British empire in India many advantages over the advancing Russians. By sending five English dray horses along with a blue velvet upholstered coach to Maharaja Ranjit Singh in Lahore, upstream from Kutch, the British discovered that the Indus was navigable all the way up.
India needs to structurally tackle the gender inequalities in job opportunities available in the renewable energy sector for the country to achieve a
A rising population of elderly poses severe challenges to old age support and care in India as health policy has not placed ample emphasis on geriatri
It were thousands of village pradhans who had to be "empowered" as the nodal points most in contact with the people. Legislators and policy makers have to develop institutional mechanisms to liaise with the Pradhans who implement policy at the village level.
Although strides have been made in women's empowerment, unpaid care work still tends to be undervalued and overlooked in mainstream economics
The exodus of people from Nepal has resulted in a scenario that will become unsustainable for the economy of Nepal
For India, there are clear economic and strategic payoffs to investing in CET development
Control of China through cooperation could be a more effective policy given the size and closed nature of China's society
In India, a prime factor for the slowdown in the solar photovoltaics (PV) sector in 2018 was the implementation of the safeguard duty on imported sola
With the Opposition-dominated Parliament passing the Judges Bill and the Government coming up with a consensus list of seven Supreme Court Judges that too was passed, there is now hope about an early end to the constitutional deadlock that had engulfed Maldives over the past weeks.
India is the third largest coal producer and the coal industry one of the oldest sectors of commercial involvement
With the death of brigand Veerappan in a police encounter in Tamil Nadu's Dharmapuri district, a long and arodous era in criminality has come to an end in this part of India - nay, even the world. Not many criminals in the world in these modern times would have scalped 130 human victims, apart from the hundreds of elephants and thousands of sandalwood trees to his credit as Veerappan did.
Pakistan is living through turbulent times and, General Musharraf, its self-styled President, is under tremendous pressure. The United States-led anti-terrorism campaign in Afghanistan has shaken Pakistan's polity like no other event in its troubled history.
After improving between 2000 and 2013, hunger levels have significantly worsened in Africa in the years since. While global food insecurity is currently at an all-time high, Africa's record in addressing undernutrition was not impressive even in the pre-pandemic era when growth rates were higher. There are several challenges to food security in Africa, including short-term external shocks such as the pandemic and the Ukraine-Russia war, and long-
A talk by Prof Dilip Ahuja and Prof D P Sen Gupta
Distributed production and consumption of RE by households and industries, primarily using solar photovoltaic (PV) systems, is projected as a potential driver of RE generation and consumption but challenges remain
