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Ocean will make this India’s maritime century

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.

The Four-Pillar Warning

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.

Strait Lessons

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.

Honey On The Tongue

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.

Far-right surge

Results of elections to the European Parliament signal a profound shift to the right, which could reshape the continent’s political and policy landscape.

Arbitration binned

Despite the strong recommendations of the Honourable Justice Sri Krishna Committee of 2017; despite successive amendments to the Arbitration Act, 1996 from 2015 to 2022 during the two terms of Prime Minister Modi’s Government

An exercise in futility

Switzerland is to host ‘A summit on peace in Ukraine’ on 15-16 June at a resort near Lake Lucerne in the central part of the country.

Rural Rejection

In the parliamentary elections, Prime Minister Narendra Modi's Bharatiya Janata Party faced a significant setback and failed to get a decisive mandate primarily because it lost over a third of the rural constituencies it won in 2019.

Coalition Challenge

As Mr Narendra Modi embarks on his third term as India’s Prime Minister, the political landscape has undergone a significant transformation.