Children are widely regarded as the architects of our future. Yet, as a teacher of science and mathematics, I am increasingly concerned that a silent crisis is unfolding among the very generation expected to lead tomorrow's world.
Long before sustainability acquired glossy reports, ambitious targets and impressive acronyms, grandmothers had already solved half the problems.
The emphasis of modern environmental policy has been on prevention. Governments, international institutions and activists have rightly focused on reducing emissions, protecting ecosystems and slowing the pace of climate change.
Wars often reveal the strength of alliances. Their endings reveal something more important: who ultimately gets to define the peace.
While one gets to learn about Central PSEs quite often through news items and media articles, the state public sector enterprises (SPSEs) mostly remain beyond the radar of public scrutiny.
Way back in 2012, Zbigniew Brezezzinski wrote about “the receding West” in his book Strategic Vision and argued that “the long-lasting political domination of the world by the West has been fading for some decades.”
In her recent budget statement, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman lauded the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code, 2016 (IBC), celebrating it as a new-age miracle. With over 1,000 companies resolved and a whopping Rs. 3.3 trillion recovered, it seems the IBC is finally hitting its stride – or at least that is the optimistic narrative.
India’s position in the global Artificial Intelligence (AI) research landscape underscores a critical gap that needs urgent attention.
India's trade figures for July 2024 underscore some concerning trends that reflect deeper structural issues within the economy.
In the annual budget declared for this fiscal, Rs 30,170.61 crore has been allotted to the Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana (PMAY) Urban,a 36.5 per cent higher provision compared to the expenditure incurred in the previous fiscal. These provisions aim to incur a spending of Rs 2.2 lakh crore in the next five years.
