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Better employment opportunities, better health care and schools, availability of safe drinking water are top three voters’ priorities followed by th
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'.
If we want our federal governance structure to promote the SDGs, we must focus on the scale of geographical area of constituencies rather than only th
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
Election Commission's reported decision to implant a 'verification mechanism' in the electronic-voting machines to be deployed in the four-State Assembly polls could have anything but the intended consequences.
The story of India and Africa’s partnership embodies an equal, consultative, and collaborative relationship.
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
The future of embedded finance in India looks promising, and 2023 could be a decisive year for its development
Guidelines on public mobility may be needed to control community transmission. However, when this is carried out in a manner that evokes fear without
The reforms of 1991, which were a cohesive wide range of reforms, covered large segments of the economy. However, in its totality, they were hamstrung
An overview of different parts of the financial system through the lens of reform puts in focus the role of individual regulators and political will i
As Zika emerges as a clear threat, India’s disease-surveillance and disease-control architecture is confronted with the puzzle of solving the curiou
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.
Get the narrative on multilateralism right, and we have the possibility to harness international cooperation for global peace and prosperity; get it w
Rapid transformation in disruptive technologies is going to change the nature of nuclear deterrence. Artificial intelligence, cyber weapons, hypersoni
A political neophyte who has never held any elected office before, Emmanuel Macron at 39 years is the youngest President in French history.
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
The Chinese president has purged the top Chinese Communist Party hierarchy of even a semblance of diversity
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.
Artificial Intelligence (AI) has already made inroads into healthcare. The increasing availability of healthcare data has allowed for the deployment of powerful AI techniques to assist drug development as well as clinical practice. These run the gamut from machine learning (ML) techniques that analyse structured data, to natural language processing (NLP) that can extract meaningful information from unstructured data, such as doctors’ notes. Thi
COP28 must serve as a unifying forum with a targeted Global South focus agenda and should not continue to be hampered by the burdens of the past
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
India must commit on this World Population Day to do more to tackle the widespread malnourishment and unemployment prevalent amongst Indian youth.
Even as trade talks between the US and China seem set to resume, geopolitical tensions between the two powers show no sign of abating.
In order to save the country from slipping into a one party rule, the revival of Congress, with or without the Gandhi's is the need of the hour.
The 55-year-old Non-Aligned Movement, a once powerful bloc of independent nations, is dying and nobody is sending flowers.
The eradication of AIDS by 2030 appears a formidable challenge as social barriers stand in the way of equitable access to healthcare
But the problem now is that the conflict is being cast in binaries, making compromise difficult
A talk by Prof Dilip Ahuja and Prof D P Sen Gupta
While the recent Energy Conservation Amendment Act 2022 sought to reduce India’s carbon intensity and increase energy conservation, it might not be
Despite a compelling techno-economic rationale for BIMSTEC nations, regional cooperation in the field of energy has not moved beyond the drawing board. This brief argues that inadequate investment in regional infrastructure, and the lack of political will to invest in shared infrastructure, are the consequence of inadequate cooperation between countries in the region, and not its cause. The electricity industries of BIMSTEC countries are being gr
How can Japan bring in energy reforms with its weak political structures, a very strong nuclear lobby that can influence policymaking, and rising public discontent? Japan has seen five Prime Ministers in the last five years.
