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Crossroads of Artificial Intelligence: Higher Education and Research in India and China
Nov 11, 2020

Crossroads of Artificial Intelligence: Higher Education and Research in India and China

This paper offers a comparative study of India and China in higher-education reforms for the development of talent in artificial intelligence (AI), and in AI research. It analyses the AI development plans and strategies of the two countries, their automation readiness index, talent retention, and research output. The analysis is based on both primary and secondary sources including interviews, government and industry reports, and recognised ranki

Breaking barriers: Gender, health rights and climate change at crossroads
Apr 05, 2024

Breaking barriers: Gender, health rights and climate change at crossroads

Adopting holistic approaches to address the interlinkages between health and other gender-sensitive SDG targets is key to achieving equitable and sust

Colombo at a crossroads: India’s balanced response to Sri Lanka crisis
May 14, 2022

Colombo at a crossroads: India’s balanced response to Sri Lanka crisis

New Delhi can lend a helping hand as a responsible neighbour, but Sri Lanka’s future rests on its political establishment responding adequately to the people’s aspirations

Dalit politics at crossroads?
Jul 11, 2017

Dalit politics at crossroads?

Results of the 2014 general election and the subsequent Assembly elections clearly established that Dalit politics is undergoing a change.

East Asian trilateralism at a crossroads?
Dec 29, 2017

East Asian trilateralism at a crossroads?

Historical differences can threaten the optimism raised at APEC and East Asian Summit.

Indian civil aviation industry at crossroads: Former DGCA chief
Mar 05, 2018

Indian civil aviation industry at crossroads: Former DGCA chief

The civil aviation sector can create lots of jobs — India can expect four million people to be employed by the industry, by 2030.

Indian Polity at the Crossroads, Again?
Aug 06, 2004

Indian Polity at the Crossroads, Again?

A decade and more after the ¿reforms regimen¿ caused a rethink of the ¿national agenda¿, the Indian polity may be at the crossroads again. If cascading fiscal compulsion was behind the earlier re-think, this time round it has more to do with the evolving polity and ageing personalities.

Iran at the Crossroads
Oct 28, 2004

Iran at the Crossroads

Iranians are political creatures, love to politic, enjoy its uncertainties, and delight in manipulating it. These traits are in evidence as the stage is being set for a presidential election in May 2005 when Mohammad Khatami's second term of office comes to an end. The Iranian Constitution prohibits more than two successive terms.

Liberalism at the crossroads?
Jul 11, 2017

Liberalism at the crossroads?

If western liberalism brought people ideologically closer, an identity based Weltanschauung has increasingly reversed this process.

Strategic crossroads: Maldives’ debt dynamics with China
Mar 15, 2024

Strategic crossroads: Maldives’ debt dynamics with China

The China-Maldives FTA encourages economic cooperation between the two countries, potentially resulting in China's debt share growing to unsustainable

The second Russia-Africa Summit: A continent at a crossroads
Aug 08, 2023

The second Russia-Africa Summit: A continent at a crossroads

Africa’s representation in the Summit can be hailed as a statement from the continent: Blind loyalty to one state is no longer the norm

Türkiye at a crossroads: Voting for status quo or change
Apr 13, 2023

Türkiye at a crossroads: Voting for status quo or change

The upcoming Turkish elections could reconfigure Türkiye’s domestic policy and shape the long-term foreign policy course of this critical middle po

A battle between the known and the unknown in Argentina
Nov 10, 2023

A battle between the known and the unknown in Argentina

Argentina stands at a defining crossroads as it goes to the polls amid economic woes

Afghanistan Today & Tomorrow
Oct 11, 2010

Afghanistan Today & Tomorrow

Saeed Naqvi, Distinguished Fellow at ORF, recently journeyed across Afghanistan where he met scores of political leaders, Taleban, US officials, filmmakers, journalists, NGOs, religious leaders and ordinary Afghans. The result is an insightful document on Afghanistan at the crossroads. Do Americans have an Endgame planned? Or, more important, can a superpower in a theatre of strategic importance, have a linear exit plan when multiple strategic op

Democracy will prevail in the Arab World, says Tunisian leader
Jul 04, 2015

Democracy will prevail in the Arab World, says Tunisian leader

One of Tunisia's leading politicians, Sheikh Rashid al-Ghannouchi, says the Middle East is not in crisis, but rather at a "crossroads." The Middle East can indeed achieve stability and peace through a process of democratic reconciliation and consensus. But the road will be long and involve building institutions, healing old wounds and forging compromises.

Gillani's Lost Chance
May 10, 2011

Gillani's Lost Chance

Prime Minister Yousuf Reza Gillani lost a sliver of a chance in Pakistan's supreme legislative body National Assembly (on May 9) to steer his embattled country away from the perpetual dilemma of being stuck at the crossroads of destiny.

Global perspectives: G20 leaders summit
Jul 04, 2017

Global perspectives: G20 leaders summit

The G20 is at a crossroads. It should choose the path that will allow it to stay relevant to its core purpose.

India's Changing Gas Scenario: The New Imperative
Nov 29, 2007

India's Changing Gas Scenario: The New Imperative

India's Natural Gas sector is at the crossroads. Production from newly discovered fields is set to match and eventually exceed production from mature and declining fields posing a challenge for the Administered Price Mechanism [APM] which has hitherto subsidised the cost structure of gas consuming segments in India.

Inside an Elusive Mind  Prabhakaran: Some Comments
Mar 08, 2004

Inside an Elusive Mind Prabhakaran: Some Comments

Sri Lanka has remained a fractured country for the major portion of its existence due to the ethnic divide between the majority Sinhalese and the minority Tamils. Today, it is again at the crossroads as it awaits the results of the snap general elections, due on April 2, 2004, following the dissolution of Parliament on February 7, 2004 in the wake of seemingly irreconcilable differences between President Chandrika Kumaratunga and Prime Minister R

Sovereignty in a ‘Datafied’ World
Oct 18, 2021

Sovereignty in a ‘Datafied’ World

Global data governance is at a crossroads—intensely contested by nations and industry players seeking to shape rules of the road to benefit their strategic interests. India has placed itself at the heart of the battle, its foreign policy vision fuelled by the principle of ‘data sovereignty’—a broad notion that supports the assertion of sovereign writ over data generated by citizens within a country’s physical boundaries. While this visi

Sri Lanka’s quest for strategic prominence in the Indian Ocean
Dec 12, 2016

Sri Lanka’s quest for strategic prominence in the Indian Ocean

At the Galle Dialogue 2016, Sri Lanka sought not only to stress its critical geographical location at the crossroads of important Indian Ocean sea lines of communication, but also to display a catalytic ability to spur regional collaboration in securing the vulnerable commons.

The future of the Indian workforce: A new approach for the new economy
Mar 21, 2018

The future of the Indian workforce: A new approach for the new economy

India is at a crossroads. It has the largest young workforce anywhere in the world, and is the fastest growing economy today. At the same time, the economy is not creating enough jobs, and therefore not fully harnessing its “demographic dividend” in preparation for the “Fourth Industrial Revolution”. To create more and better jobs, certain fundamental realities need to be recognised – the untapped opportunities in the services sector, t

आगामी निवडणुकीचा तुर्कीत तिढा
Oct 03, 2023

आगामी निवडणुकीचा तुर्कीत तिढा

तुर्कस्तानातील आगामी निवडणुकांमुळे देशातील अंतर्गत धोरणाची पुनर्रचना होऊ शकते आणि मध्य-पूर्वेकडील या देशाचे दीर्घकालीन परराष्ट्र धोरणही आकाराला येऊ शकते.

कोविड-19 की महामारी से दोराहे पर आ खड़ा हुआ है ऑस्ट्रेलिया
May 02, 2020

कोविड-19 की महामारी से दोराहे पर आ खड़ा हुआ है ऑस्ट्रेलिया

ऑस्ट्रेलिया की अप्रवासन नीति यहां के राजनेताओं के लिए या

कोविड-19 वैश्विक नेतृत्व के दोराहे पर खड़ा है अमेरिका
Apr 09, 2020

कोविड-19 वैश्विक नेतृत्व के दोराहे पर खड़ा है अमेरिका

दुनिया को पता है कि अमेरिका पहले से ही बाक़ी दुनिया से अलग

ज्वलंत धोरणात्मक प्रश्न : मालदीवचे चीनसोबतचे कर्ज समीकरण!
Apr 01, 2024

ज्वलंत धोरणात्मक प्रश्न : मालदीवचे चीनसोबतचे कर्ज समीकरण!

चीन-मालदीव मुक्त व्यापार करार (FTA) दोन्ही देशांमधील आर्थि�

दोराहे पर खड़ा तुर्की: मतदान का मक़सद क्या? यथास्थिति या बदलाव…
Apr 17, 2023

दोराहे पर खड़ा तुर्की: मतदान का मक़सद क्या? यथास्थिति या बदलाव…

तुर्की के आने वाले चुनाव इस मध्यम दर्जे की शक्ति की घरेलू

दोराहे पर खड़ा पाकिस्तान सेना के तिकड़म से भी नहीं बनेगी बात
Feb 10, 2024

दोराहे पर खड़ा पाकिस्तान सेना के तिकड़म से भी नहीं बनेगी बात

पाकिस्तान को यदि मौजूदा चुनौतियों से निपटना है तो उन सुधारों का सूत्रपात करना होगा, जो उसे आवश्यक स्थायित्व एवं संतुलन प्रदान करने की ओर ले जाएं.

श्रीलंकेतील अराजकता आणि भारताची प्रतिक्रीया
Apr 14, 2023

श्रीलंकेतील अराजकता आणि भारताची प्रतिक्रीया

शेवटी, श्रीलंकेचे राष्ट्राध्यक्ष गोटाबाया राजपक्षे यांना आपली भूमिका मांडावी लागली आणि ते जे बोलले ते  दबावाखाली बोलले हे स्पष्ट आहे.

सुलगता सामरिक सवाल: चीन के साथ मालदीव का कर्ज़ समीकरण!
Mar 19, 2024

सुलगता सामरिक सवाल: चीन के साथ मालदीव का कर्ज़ समीकरण!

चीन-मालदीव में फ्री ट्रेड एग्रीमेंट (FTA) दोनों देशों के बीच