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Gender-sensitising the Water Action Agenda would be critical to ensuring truly inclusive transformations
Beijing is not doing as well as it would like us to think. Its economic challenges and isolation have meant it is keener than its put-off partners to achieve some normalcy in ties with other countries.
Granted that the US normally goes for the overkill and in comparison our systems are in kindergarten stuff, there is no denying that we need upgrades. Intelligence and intercepts post-event, as in the recent Uri case, are of academic interest.
India lags far behind China in terms of the budget allocated to defence R&D
The Scorpene leak can be the first instance of information about India’s strategic assets being successfully extracted through digital networks.
At a conference on "Transformations in West Asia: The Next Steps" in Delhi, speakers said each country must develop its unique path to achieve democracy, based on the historical and current social, political and economic context.
Studies done in ORF estimate that even with everything in our favour, India will be hard put to exceed a thermal coal based capacity beyond 300 GW. In such a scenario, how do we better harness our oil and gas potential and fulfill the great promise that lies hidden in our vast unexplored acreages.
There is hardly any doubt that failing health systems result in poor health outcomes and hamper progress towards the attainment of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and Universal Health Coverage (UHC). In Africa, health systems are hobbled by leadership and governance challenges, extreme shortages of health workers, corruption in procurement systems for medical products and technologies, poor information systems, and health financing const
The nature and complexity of the next government would either be a confirmation of the thesis that politicians can read the pulse of the people, or th
In 2024, an increasingly volatile world will define the state of the global economy
All the big government pieces—from geopolitics to geoeconomics—will be the key drivers of global finance over the next year
Political leaders have already declared ‘war’ on the disease and such a framing typically precedes “extraordinary” invasive measures that slow
The ideas of disinformation and misinformation are as old as history. What is new, are the technologies that enable its rapid spread.
A final draft resolution at the United Nations, passed in July 2014, has focused on the UN General Assembly's review process of World Summit on the Information Society outcomes implementation.
Any attempt by India to haul up Pakistan before the international community, including the UN, could prove counter productive. It could start with India itself 'internationalising' the issue, and formally allowing the rest of the world to tell us what we should do to Pakistan, and on the vexatious Kashmir issue.
The outcome of PM K.P. Sharma Oli's visit suggests relations between the two countries are in a reboot mode.
KP Sharma Oli, who is bitterly anti-Indian, is likely to return to the prime minister's office.
India has world class healthcare in urban agglomerations, but public healthcare continues to be overcrowded and underfunded
Technology solutions for illiterate people are exclusively designed by the formally educated and that is a fundamental problem
Quantum technology could be a viable source of energy creation and quantum batteries could offer a reliable replacement for lithium-ion batteries in t
The last multilateral negotiations in the field of nuclear disarmament took place more than 20 years ago, resulting in the long awaited Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty (CTBT). The treaty, however, has yet to enter into force. India is often held responsible for such uncertainty, in spite of having withdrawn from the negotiations before it was even concluded; at other times, it is the US which is blamed for failing to ratify the CTBT—giving reason
Any ambiguity in China’s economic performance will have a seismic effect on the major financial centres across the globe.
Economic, political and strategic heft of the G-20 formation makes it the forum, to which rest of the world can look upon with hope.
From India’s perspective, Israel and the UAE are undoubtedly our two closest friends in the Middle East. PM Modi has invested considerable energy in developing both relationships and they have stood by our side when we have needed their support. Normalisation of ties between them augurs well for us, opening up exciting new possibilities for collaboration.
The Modi-Xi 'informal summit' meeting at Wuhan is a good beginning — but other than attempted hugs and frozen smiles don't expect any tangible outco
If women’s participation in microenterprises were to increase, it could address two crises that plague the country — job growth and declining part
Women’s representation in India’s Parliament is an important metric to evaluate progress in bridging gender inequities in the country. India has a female population of 662.9 million and is the largest and one of the most resilient parliamentary democracies in the world. As the country completes 75 years of independence, this paper gives a historical account of the progress in women’s representation in Parliament over the past decades. It co
India’s link with the Southeast Asian region has been deep and in many of the members of ASEAN like Cambodia, Thailand, Indonesia and Burma, there a
Observer Research Foundation on August 21 organised a day-long workshop on ¿ Access to Justice in India¿ particularly for the poor and vulnerable sections of the society. Drawing the attention of the participants, ORF Chairman R.K.Mishra, in his welcome address said there was no dearth of studies and recommendations on improving the justice delivery system in the country but the will to implement them was what was missing
His appointment as the Vice Chairman of the Central Military Commission is a clear indication of the eventual change of guard in 2012
As Xi enters into his third term, one expects a change in policy course in alignment with the objectives of the 'New Era'.
Despite the interests both sides have for better ties, there are real limits and challenges to this.
Like everything else, technology and the internet have many strengths, creating many avenues for growth and new opportunities to innovate.
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‘फेक न्यूज’चे विष आज जगभरातील माध्यमविश्वाला बाधित करत आहे. पण त्यावर यंदाच्या अमेरिकन निवडणुकीत नियंत्रण ठेवले गेले. ते कसे हे पाहणे, फार महत्त्वाचे आहे.
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अमेरिकी कांग्रेस द्वारा यूक्रेन के लिए मंजूर किया गया नया सहायता पैकेज निकट भविष्य के लिए भले पर्याप्त हो, वाइट हाउस में नए राष्ट्रपति के आने या आगामी चुनावों में कांग्रे�
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