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It is becoming clear even to President Pervez Musharraf, Chief of Army Staff, Pakistan, that he will have to step down sooner than later. This brief discusses three immediate reasons to make such an assumption.
PILs are being misused as instruments to bog down infrastructure projects, affecting India’s growth in the long run
The timing of the recent India-Pakistan agreement can’t be a coincidence, and the Modi government needs to watch its back.
The US midterms augur a political future riddled with roadblocks
For India to achieve net-zero emissions by 2070, coal power must be phased out entirely, and renewable capacity needs to grow.
Advances in technology, the shifting sands of the global nuclear energy market, and the extant standards and practices surrounding the monitoring of radioactive materials raise important questions about the future of nuclear security. Technological advancements have enabled the retrieval of radioactive materials from unconventional sources and made fuel fabrication easier. The emergence of new players in the nuclear energy market also flags conce
Positioning Mumbai in the Indo-Pacific will require planning. A new version of the ‘Bombay Plan’ — Bombay Plan 2.0 — is needed to build on the
The free refill benefits during 2018-2020 led to a boost in the consumption of LPG in India
India’s border dispute with China, which goes back to the 1950s, primarily owes to the absence of an internationally accepted boundary between them, and of an agreement on where runs the Line of Actual Control. The border, as a result, is patrolled and managed by the military forces of both sides. After initial efforts to resolve the dispute failed, the two sides signed a set of agreements aimed at stabilising the LAC and normalising their rela
The continuing deadlock in the peace process and in the political equation between President Chandrika Kumaratunga and Prime Minister Ranil Wickremasinghe due to their failure to reach an accord on the ground rules for the smooth functioning of the co-habitation Government marked the political landscape in Sri Lanka during 2003.
It is necessary to detail the steps that our transit agencies can take in the face of the restart after 17 May.
The Kargil war of 1999 and Thursday morning's surgical strikes have now decisively proved that the LoC is not a focal point for India and Pakistan.
To emerge victorious in the 2024 presidential elections, KMT will have to assure its people that it is not pro-China and intends to preserve the statu
There are concerns about how well the newly merged cantonments will be governed under the ULBs
Whatever be the demands of the Baloch nationalists, the situation now is that of a growing humanitarian crisis that the rest of the world chooses to ignore. Continued indifference will not help the problem go away but will only exacerbate it further and make it more intractable.
The harsh response by the Pakistani state towards the ongoing Baloch protests will only alienate people further and deepen the existing crisis
The façade of federalism is apparent as none of the government levels want to part with their authority
In a country possessing as vast a landscape and populace as India, blockchain has the potential to completely transform and revolutionize governance,
To safeguard Chinese interests in Gwadar, the Pakistani government gives in to demands placed by the local population
In the Robert Frost poem the narrator¿s neighbour tells him ¿good fences make good neighbours,¿ but he asks, ¿Before I built a wall I'd ask to know/What I was walling in or walling out.¿ However, in the case of the barbed wire fence that has been constructed on the Line of Control (LoC) by the Indian army, no one appears to have asked this question.
Given that India is on the path to urbanisation, there is a dire need for governance reforms at the municipal level to ensure that it reaches the qual
To ensure citizen participation and awareness, it is instrumental that ULBS are slowly transformed into transparent and accountable bodies
The state of Pakistan, dominated by Punjabis, has responded to Baloch nationalism with brutal methods of suppression
The highest allocations being given to the housing and transport sectors indicates that the government’s priority during 2023-24 is to provide shelt
The Early Harvest Trade Deal signals a change in India’s reluctance to pursue FTAs
The policy decision to decarbonise capital flows are important in driving the necessary shift towards a more sustainable and resilient global order, b
With economic compulsions forcing governments to ease lockdown restrictions, the pandemic seems set to run its course in the country
Sustainable finance emerged as a key issue to tackle climate change at the 2021 United Nations Climate Change Conference and is spurring a global transition to net zero. A peculiar feature of the race to net zero is that it cannot be achieved unless all countries can meet their targets, and any positive step towards it will benefit all countries. The drive to achieve carbon neutrality and net-zero emissions needs to be targeted through a range of
The BRTS falls between two stools. It monopolises rare road space and heavily congests non-BRTS lanes.
Contract clauses of penalties and liquidated damages are bound to be pressed, leading to arbitration and legal battles.
