India and SCO
Context: Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) summit in Qingdao, China was the first SCO summit attended by India as a full-fledged member. Significance for India SCO now has about half the…
Context: Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) summit in Qingdao, China was the first SCO summit attended by India as a full-fledged member. Significance for India SCO now has about half the…
Context: The number of legal disputes involving property, contract, labour, tax and corporate laws is bound to increase with an expanding economy. How they are adjudicated by courts not only…
Context: The Union ministry of health and family welfare has launched the first ever registry in the country registry of authentic, standardised and updated geo-spatial data of all public and…
Context: Women’s participation in the labour force declined sharply in the country precisely when the country’s economic engine was growing the fastest: between 2004-05 and 2011-12. National Sample Survey Office…
Context: The government plans to warehouse stressed power projects totaling 25,000 MW under an asset management firm to protect the value of the assets This will prevent their distress sale…
Context: B.R. Ambedkar once said that “political power is the key to all social progress”. What, then, to make of the fact that India—a country where women suffer substantially greater…
Concerns: Multiple scandals involving Facebook and Cambridge Analytica have made one thing clear – the failure of market forces to uphold privacy and protect user data. As long as there…
By allowing lateral entry into top, decision-making levels of the bureaucracy, the Centre has taken a bold first step towards reforming India’s Byzantine administrative set-up. The idea behind throwing open…
Context: Ambubachi Mela is a four-day fair to mark the annual menstruation of the goddess at Kamakhya temple, centre for Tantra worship. Kamakhya, atop Nilachal Hills in Guwahati, is one of…
A fast-changing climate, conflict, inequality, persistent pockets of poverty and hunger and rapid urbanization are challenging countries’ efforts to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), according to a UN report…
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