Let’s tread slowly with biofuel ambitions
India's fuel policy is increasingly being shaped by blending targets. First came ethanol blending mandates.
India's fuel policy is increasingly being shaped by blending targets. First came ethanol blending mandates.
West Bengal is not merely a state. It is, in the telling of those who sought to win it back from the Trinamool Congress, a civilisational citadel - the cradle of the Bengal Renaissance, the land of Ramakrishna and Vivekananda, Bankimchandra and Tagore , Shyamaprasad Mookerjee and Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose.
India's temporary restriction on Telegram ahead of the NEET-UG re-examination has dominated headlines.
There is something profoundly ironic about a civilisation becoming embarrassed by one of its oldest mirrors.
Special emphasis has been laid on the development of infrastructure in the difficult terrains in Arunachal Pradesh, Ladakh, and parts of Uttarakhand bordering China.
As the war in Ukraine grinds into its fourth year, the calculus of peace appears increasingly dictated not by battlefield realities or the will of the people, but by shifting geopolitical priorities.
India's linguistic and cultural plurality is at the heart of its civilizational ethos. It is one of the few nations in the world where the Constitution itself recognizes 22 official languages in the Eighth Schedule, while thousands of other languages and dialects are spoken across its length and breadth.
The UK Supreme Court’s unanimous ruling that the term “woman” under the Equality Act 2010 refers to biological sex, not gender identity or legal recognition, marks a pivotal moment in the country’s legal and cultural landscape.
As the government forecasts a second consecutive year of above-average monsoon rainfall, the implications for India’s economy ~ and particularly its rural heartland ~ are profound.
In the old and new Great Game, Afghanistan has held a central position. Peter Hopkirk, in his path-breaking book The Great Game: The Struggle for Empire in Central Asia, chronicled the 19th-century geopolitical chessboard involving Britain and Russia.
