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The report is based on the key recommendations that emerged out of the deliberations at National Conclave on India's Energy Security: Major Challenges held in New Delhi on 14-15 February 2006. The recommendations emerging out of the Conclave have been compiled in this Report for consideration by the Government
Both India and Nepal can seize the connectivity opportunities available in the region by fully utilising regional platforms such as BIMSTEC
The author writes upon, regional parties role in India, in the country’s parliamentary democracy
This brief examines the education crisis that has affected close to 250 million children in India due to school closures implemented as a response to the COVID-19 pandemic. It underlines that the switch to remote learning has created a “regression in learning” that, while cutting across the entire socio-economic spectrum, has disproportionately affected the poor, and among them, the girls. This pandemic-induced education divide and learning l
India’s demographic dividend will pay off only if the youth are either enrolled in higher education programmes or made job-ready with effective skil
This report tracks the changes to India’s business regulatory framework in the first 40 days of the nationwide lockdown due to the COVID-19 virus. The Union and state governments have been highly proactive in creating spaces for doing business while managing the ongoing health crisis. The governments have attempted to modify the business-related legal infrastructure within the confines imposed through the lockdown. While under normal circumstan
In August 2019, the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) released its final guidelines for a regulatory sandbox for fintech firms.[1] Technology innovations are disrupting the traditional financial sector, and the RBI’s regulatory sandbox exercise is an attempt to be more agile and absorb some of this disruption. ‘Sandboxes’ give regulators a chance to work with fintech innovators, mitigate potential risks and develop evidence-based policy, while fi
What is fuelling anti-India rhetoric in India’s neighbourhood despite the efforts made by the Indian government to allay such fears?
The Narendra Modi government is going to close down the Planning Commission as it existed. But, any new organization of Indian economic leadership must learn from the failures and successes of the erstwhile Planning Commission, continuing its best aspects while reforming all that is irrelevant.
This brief outlines a framework for India if it is to play a more proactive role in integrating and reimagining its immediate neighbourhood, in particular with reference to the economic relations with its BIMSTEC partners. The analysis is done in the context of important economic and strategic developments in the Asia-Pacific region in the recent years. It describes how India can navigate between competing economic and geo-strategic imperatives b
Despite challenges posed by the COVID-19 pandemic, India–UK ties remain unfettered to harness new strategic convergences in sync with contemporary realities
It is crucial that we do everything possible to get it right for women.
The debates around work and the welfare architecture in India need to be urgently reframed and translated into practical reform.
The emergence of ‘Surveillance capitalism' has tarnished the quality and undermined the principles of democracy all around the world
Gram Sabhas, notwithstanding many challenges, have brought a semblance of deliberative democracy in India
Attempts are being made by Nepal and India to revive the relationship through new avenues of cooperation with a focus on digital connectivity
The upcoming visit by President al-Sisi provides an opportunity to boost relations between India and Egypt
It would be prudent for both the countries to further consolidate their relations by exploring the opportunities available in renewable energy
India has over thirty years of experience in developing biogas, biomass and solar energy and this expertise needs to be leveraged better
The rush to install RE capacity could come at the expense of forest cover thus increasing India’s annual carbon emissions
This Paper outlines the potential of renewable energy in addressing India's energy supply and access; it identifies challenges and provide a discursive overview of the various market and policy instruments developed to scale up renewable energy generation. India’s significant economic growth over the last decade has led to an inexorable rise in energy demand. Currently, India faces a Ichallenging energy shortage. To grow at 9 per cent over t
The Egypt visit of Indian External Affairs Minister marks a thaw in India-Egypt relations after years of being in the “deep freeze”
After nearly 19 months, both the governments decided to lift the border closures. Does this reopening enable a review of the current arrangement of mo
With growing digitalisation and amid the ongoing pandemic, India needs to reorient its trade policy with emphasis on developing its own GVCs and upgra
There are growing calls amongst a section of political and industry leaders for a “great reset” of capitalism.
There needs to be quiet dialogue to resolve their many differences, with New Delhi needing to be sensitive and generous
