The 21st century is increasingly b eing described as the Indian Ocean Century. As the global economic centre of gravity shifts from the Atlantic to Asia, the vast maritime region stretching from the eastern coast of Africa to the western Pacific has emerged as the world's busiest and most strategically important sea space.
When Home Minister Amit Shah directed the commission formed on “Demographic Change” to study the phenomenon in India’s borderlands, he did not speak in the cautious language of policy briefs.
The reopening of shipping lanes through the Strait of Hormuz may have calmed oil markets, but it would be a mistake to confuse the return of traffic with the return of certainty.
A file sits on a clerk’s desk. It is complete, stamped, in order ~ and it will not move. The applicant, a farmer or a small contractor or a widow chasing a pension, learns the unwritten tariff: a little cash to the right hand, and the file walks.
Data from the recently published National Family Health Survey 6 (NFHS 6) shows that India is moving away from being a young country.
India stands at a pivotal juncture. Despite its status as the world’s fastest-growing major economy, the country grapples with an acute unemployment crisis.
The humanitarian crisis unfolding in Sudan’s Darfur region is a tragic testament to the devastating consequences of war.
Under the NEP-2000, the name of the Ministry of Human Resource Development (MHRD) was changed to Ministry of Education (MoE). There was a serious dimension to this change in nomenclature.
Mexico’s cultural philosopher Jose Vasconcelos in his widely-read 1925 essay, “The Cosmic Race,” celebrated the mixture of European, Asian, Indigenous, and African races that made up the Mexican.
The visit by US lawmakers to meet the Dalai Lama in India marks a significant moment in the on-going Tibet-China dispute.
