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.
An overlooked aspect of this election is the starkly different approach of the Bharatiya Janata Party and the Congress in the realms of technology and human rights.
The recent proposal from the Paris-based World Inequality Lab to impose a crorepati tax on India’s ultra-rich has reignited the debate over wealth inequality and its societal impact.
With the kind of weapons that are used commonly in modern warfare, all wars have become extremely destructive.
India’s next government, buoyed by an unprecedented windfall of Rs 2.11 lakh crore from the Reserve Bank of India (RBI), faces a crucial decision that could shape the nation’s economic trajectory.
With six of the seven phases of the Lok Sabha polls complete, the election is proving to be far more strategically complex than initially expected.
