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Even 30 years after Tiananmen, China’s leadership is unable to understand — or is stubbornly unwilling to understand — the contradiction between
India's de-hyphenation policy in West Asia has been instrumental in sustaining bilateral ties with Israel.
Events have been moving in this direction for nearly a decade.
The bottom line assessment of the third Plenum of the 18th CCCPC is that the Plenum outcome keeps Chinese economic and political developments on an evolutionary path, rather than a revolutionary one. In other words, it has sought to tweak policies, rather than offer up a radical menu.
The 4th BRICS Academic Forum has urged Summit Leaders meeting later this month in New Delhi to consider studying the establishment of financial institutions such as a Development Bank and an Investment Fund that can assist in the development of BRICS and other developing countries.
The repatriation of Rohingyas to Myanmar is fraught with several challenges and must only be undertaken after taking into consideration the needs of t
As India completes 50 days of lockdown, this report presents the findings of a data-driven enquiry into the extent to which the lockdown has achieved its health objectives and arrested the spread of COVID-19. The success is measured on four parameters: flattening the curve, reducing the growth rate of new cases, containing the spread, and improving healthcare capacity. The findings show that while the lockdown has flattened the curve to an extent
Not much has been heard, especially from the large number of China “believers,” who helped perpetuate the notion China was liberalising, that it w
The future will present itself with an abundance of opportunities to help the two countries to reach a new plane of bilateral relations higher than ev
After the initial lukewarm response, India’s daily inoculations observed a much-needed boost.
Instead of seeing it as just another step forward for telecommunications, states must also view 5G’s strategic technology as critical national infra
The current skill gap when it comes to 5G technologies must be closed if India is to transition to the era of economic growth 5G could enable
The 5th BRICS Academic Forum, comprising experts and scholars from the research and academic institutions of India, China, Brazil, Russia and South Africa, met on the 11th and 12th of March 2013 in Durban and has come up with a 5-point recommendations.
Digital India created a brand, mirroring PM Modi's 'Jan-Jan Modi, Ghar-Ghar Modi' of aspiration & inclusivity.
Diverging interests have placed France and Germany at odds. Would the Franco-German partnership help steer Europe out of its current crisis?
With Verdict 2019 giving a greater political force to Modi’s next five years, we hope some of them will make the grade, or at least, in experiential
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.
The Factories Act ensures that working conditions of Indian labour are humane and entitles them to protection against loose processes.
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
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
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
