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India has seen a huge jump in screen time by 25 per cent (4.9 hours pre-COVID to 6.9 hours) during the pandemic.
Governments are architects designing our range of choices and social environment. Using formal behavioural science towards design, they can craft smar
Completely aligned with a control mindset, the practice of ensuring that farmers get a fair return on their production in an era of food surpluses con
Stability of banks has been RBI’s sole focus for the past 70 years, an idea the central bank has nurtured since its nationalisation in 1948.
This law enacted in 1947 showed who would be in charge of capital in socialist India.
In their new avatars, ICICI Bank and IDBI Bank command the size and scale to repeat that performance for household finance, while IFCI is teetering un
At a time when India was emerging from the aftermath of Partition and shortages, the objective of this Act was to protect citizens from exploitation b
The Factories Act ensures that working conditions of Indian labour are humane and entitles them to protection against loose processes.
Finance Commissions decide the distribution taxes between the centre and the states, and is the key financial lever determining the federal structure
The new FCI should be a market-friendly agency for food management, with a primary focus on creating competition in every segment of foodgrain supply
The Foreign Exchange Regulation Act extended controls to “the use or disposal of — or dealings in — coin, bullion, securities or foreign exchang
As companies and producers began to embrace and communicate their adherence to the “ISI Mark” as a virtue, the mark and the quality it certified s
The resolution emphasised on support for cottage, village and small-scale industries by restricting production for large players, differential taxatio
The law declared “in the public interest” — a term that would get echoed over the next five decades for several laws and policies, to mean the c
While building institutions is hard, maintaining them is even harder.
Through the Minimum Wages Act, the Parliament declared that governments — not economic agents — would decide the amount of wages paid.
A five-decade-old issue — concentration of economic power, dominance in the hands of the few and the resultant inequalities — remains alive even t
If airlines symbolised the travel of the rich, they should logically have been banned altogether or taxed heavily. Instead, the government nationalise
“Nationalisation,” Indira Gandhi proclaimed, “is necessary for the speedy achievement of these objectives.”
In terms of outcomes, the first decade of coal nationalisation saw “political patronage of mafia activities” and bureaucratic corruption.
From 1972 to 2002, the journey of GIC — from nationalisation to a general insurance monopoly to opening up to private competition and finally to bec
While the ostensible reason for nationalisation and the obliteration of all competition was unfair practices of the companies and the protection of po
Intermingled with ONGC’s corporate structure was India’s strategic goal of energy security, the route to which was through global acquisitions.
An analysis of the agenda papers and records of the first 50 meetings indicates the dominance of a central economic thought, articulated by the prime
Initially offered by post offices and branches of select public sector banks, today, most private sector banks can offer the provident fund scheme to
Possibly enthused by the socialist celebration of nationalisation as a silver bullet for all things market, the nationalisation of textile mills faile
The Special Economic Zones Act was, and still remains, a difficult legislation to turn into action.
Through the six decades of SBI’s presence, the initial objective of extending “banking facilities on a large scale, more particularly in the rural
The intellectual framework for high taxes was set by Finance Minister C.D. Deshmukh in his 27 February 1953 Union Budget speech, where he set up the T
Focused primarily on the Indian economy, Gautam Chikermane's new book, 70 Policies, also explores the impact of external influences — legal, politic
This brief studies India’s foreign policy preferences using an index based on historical voting patterns of member states at the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA). By visualising the trajectory of policy preferences for all member states in the UNGA, with a particular focus on India, this work identifies how India’s policy stance at the UN has evolved in relation to its peers. It finds that Indian policy has maintained an exceptionally h
The Indian Himalayan Region, spanning 12 Indian states, has long been absent from the centre stage of Indian policy.
In what is being touted as a major shift in Indian policy towards Israel, New Delhi abstained from a vote against Israel at the UN Human Rights Commission. The UN human rights body called for Israel's accountability in alleged war crimes committed by its officials during the conflict in Gaza in July 2014.
In Devas Multimedia Pvt. Ltd v. Antrix Corporation Ltd, the Supreme Court of India has upheld the National Company Law Appellate Tribunal (NCLAT) order winding up Devas Multimedia Ltd on the grounds of fraud. Antrix is the commercial arm of the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO), and Devas is a multimedia services company. The decision comes at a crucial time, as foreign investors of Devas are endeavouring to attach Indian assets
In an unpredictable global environment, India needs to shape a domestic consensus in matters of Indian foreign policy.
As a country committed to social objectives, Indian policy makers consider the allocation of commercial forms of energy too important to be left entirely to the market. India¿s mistrust of the market arises from social and commercial concerns that are entirely justifiable, but the multitude of administrative mechanisms introduced to replace the market mechanism often work at cross-purposes.
As in Nepal, in India too, the Maoists have been waging a People's War in 13 States of the Indian Union. Indian policy-makers and media refrain from calling them Maoists, possibly due to a fear that characterising them as Maoists might create negative perceptions of China in the minds of the public, at a time when the relations between the two countries are improving.
Why does India have so few available options to manage security threats? In crisismanagement, Indian policy-makers have faced all-or-nothing choices, either passivelyabsorbing provocations, or overreacting with massive mobilisations and threats ofgeneral war. In wartime, with the notable exception of the 1971 war, India hasgenerally fought to degrade enemy military capabilities rather than to achieve decisiveoperational effects. This paper argues
India's interests in Iraq and the region should be seen in the larger context of the seven million Indians working in West Asia, of which nearly 18,000 are in Iraq. Safety and security of this population should dominate the Indian policy.
India cannot ignore what is happening in its North-West. It is not clear what is going to be Indian policy to protect its political, strategic and economic interests in Afghanistan. May be the Indian policy-makers will have to sit back and think of ways to ensure that India's role in Af-Pak region doesn't become minimal.
The ongoing India-China face-off in Eastern Ladakh may appear to be a small-scale confrontation between conventional forces. But it is still one between nuclear-armed states, and the threat of escalation cannot be denied. In its wake, India has carried out a series of missile tests, while China too has fired a number of ballistic missiles near the Paracel and Spratly Islands, apparently to warn the US, but hardly something New Delhi can ignore. T
High-density urban agglomerations may be sustainable in terms of the economies of scale their populations provide. Yet, as proven by the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, these same urban spaces are nearly defenceless in times of unprecedented disease outbreaks. A pandemic poses many risks to the millions who live in dense megacities, whether in wealthy countries or developing ones. The sheer density of the population of these cities provides an ideal e
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