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While Elections-2007, which returned the ruling BJP and Chief Minister Narendra Modi to power against the expectations of the English language media in the country, it only helped focus on what has now come to be termed as the 'Gujarat model of development'.
At the heart of the debate on electoral reforms lies the vexed issue of campaign finance reform. There are four fundamental questions that need to be answered to understand this conundrum. A related but standalone issue is that of state funding of elections.
Dr. Anupam Chander, Professor of Law at UC Davis, says a specific rule which necessitates the consent of data subject in order to process the data coming from foreign countries in India is effectively discouraging foreign investments in India.
Why do Indian and Pakistani leaders succumb to the predictable? There's so much déjà vu about their peace process being derailed by border firings and terrorist strikes that the wider world has begun to yawn
Guidelines on public mobility may be needed to control community transmission. However, when this is carried out in a manner that evokes fear without
The reforms of 1991, which were a cohesive wide range of reforms, covered large segments of the economy. However, in its totality, they were hamstrung
An overview of different parts of the financial system through the lens of reform puts in focus the role of individual regulators and political will i
As long as Yameen claims to be working within the four walls of the Constitution, there is nothing much that third nations could do on the ground.
The presence and influence of the Naxalites are increasing dramatically and rapidly in various parts of the country while we remain engaged in endless debates on how to address the problem.
India is seen as a bridging power that can narrow the divide between the developed and developing countries through the use and regulation of new and
As part of a three-year research project undertaken by ORF and PRIO to study and analyse urban governance, urban security and environment related trends and concerns in selected regions of India, an international conference was organised on "Emerging Challenges in an Urbanising India: Governance, Security and Climate Change".
The future of Bangladesh-India hydro-relations will not only be contingent upon what New Delhi and Dhaka will think, but will also be dependent on the
Get the narrative on multilateralism right, and we have the possibility to harness international cooperation for global peace and prosperity; get it w
As president of the Global Partnership on AI this year, India has the chance to lead the international dialogue around general-purpose AI technologies
The growing strategic relevance of the Indo-Pacific has made India focus its efforts to align with countries on the basis of consensus and cooperation
A political neophyte who has never held any elected office before, Emmanuel Macron at 39 years is the youngest President in French history.
While the idea that emotional appeal is central to political persuasion may serve common intuition, the dynamics underscoring how and why this is so, remain underexplored. This primer collates insights from neuroscience and political psychology to show why emotions are essential to vote choice. It explores the effects of emotional appeals on voter perceptions using examples from campaign advertisements in US elections. The analysis finds that pol
The Chinese president has purged the top Chinese Communist Party hierarchy of even a semblance of diversity
Artificial Intelligence (AI) has already made inroads into healthcare. The increasing availability of healthcare data has allowed for the deployment of powerful AI techniques to assist drug development as well as clinical practice. These run the gamut from machine learning (ML) techniques that analyse structured data, to natural language processing (NLP) that can extract meaningful information from unstructured data, such as doctors’ notes. Thi
India needs to structurally tackle the gender inequalities in job opportunities available in the renewable energy sector for the country to achieve a
Businesses and individuals in India must seize the benefits of AI and strategically enhance their competitiveness by staying abreast of advancements i
COP28 must serve as a unifying forum with a targeted Global South focus agenda and should not continue to be hampered by the burdens of the past
While women's digital exclusion is relative to each G20 member state and its accompanying socio-economic context, it can be observed universally in varied manifestations.
Although strides have been made in women's empowerment, unpaid care work still tends to be undervalued and overlooked in mainstream economics
The exodus of people from Nepal has resulted in a scenario that will become unsustainable for the economy of Nepal
India must commit on this World Population Day to do more to tackle the widespread malnourishment and unemployment prevalent amongst Indian youth.
With the death of brigand Veerappan in a police encounter in Tamil Nadu's Dharmapuri district, a long and arodous era in criminality has come to an end in this part of India - nay, even the world. Not many criminals in the world in these modern times would have scalped 130 human victims, apart from the hundreds of elephants and thousands of sandalwood trees to his credit as Veerappan did.
In order to save the country from slipping into a one party rule, the revival of Congress, with or without the Gandhi's is the need of the hour.
After improving between 2000 and 2013, hunger levels have significantly worsened in Africa in the years since. While global food insecurity is currently at an all-time high, Africa's record in addressing undernutrition was not impressive even in the pre-pandemic era when growth rates were higher. There are several challenges to food security in Africa, including short-term external shocks such as the pandemic and the Ukraine-Russia war, and long-
But the problem now is that the conflict is being cast in binaries, making compromise difficult
Pricing formula for domestic natural gas could not have been more wrong and other weekly energy roundups
Coal Ministry reportedly opposed to NITI Aayog’s draft Energy Policy as draft policy threatens to take away CIL’s monopoly on pricing amongst other roundups
A staggering $20 billion worth of debt split roughly equally between operational and under-construction power projects reportedly at risk and other roundups
OC, BPCL and HPCL reported to have plans to spend $20 billion on refinery expansions to process fuel oil into gasoline and diesel and other energy roundups
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