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Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) Guidelines

Context: The recent report by the Centre for Science and Environment (CSE) underscores critical gaps in the Indian government’s EPR...

Quad Mineral Security Partnership

Context: Critical minerals, often called the “new oil,” are pivotal to the ongoing high-tech industrial revolution. However, the concentration of...

India’s Economic Credibility Challenge

Context: Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman expressed surprise at the low levels of domestic and foreign investment in India, despite tax...

A Collective Effort Towards Peace in Myanmar

Context: Since a military coup in 2021, Myanmar has been caught in a deepening crisis, with violent conflicts spreading across...

Bad Weather Friends

Context: Maryam Nawaz Sharif, Chief Minister of Pakistan’s Punjab, has urged India and Pakistan to work together to combat increasing...

India’s Fight Against Tuberculosis: Progress, Challenges, and the Road Ahead

India’s Fight Against Tuberculosis: Progress, Challenges, and the Road Ahead

Introduction-India’s Fight Against Tuberculosis. Tuberculosis (TB) is one of the world’s oldest and deadliest diseases, but many countries are making...

Rising Election Expenditure

Context: Election expenses have been escalating worldwide, particularly in democracies like India, the U.S., and the U.K. These high costs...

Climate and Health Africa Conference (CHAC) 2024

Context: The Climate and Health Africa Conference (CHAC) 2024 opens in Harare, Zimbabwe, aiming to highlight the intersection of climate...

Israeli Laws Impacting UN Aid to Gaza

Context: Israeli lawmakers approved two new laws that could hinder the work of the main United Nations agency aiding people...

Bridging the Economic Divide in India: Ensuring Growth for All States

Bridging the Economic Divide in India: Ensuring Growth for All States

Bridging the Economic Divide in India This essay, based on Professor Arun Kumar’s article “A Picture of a Growing Economic...

Dhanteras and National Ayurveda Day: Celebrating Health, Prosperity, and Heritage

Dhanteras and National Ayurveda Day: Celebrating Health, Prosperity, and Heritage

  Dhanteras and National Ayurveda Day Based on Yashee’s article, “Dhanvantri’s Relevance to Dhanteras & Ayurveda Day” (The Indian Express,...

India-China LAC Agreement: Key Developments and Future Pathways

Context: The recent India-China disengagement along the Line of Actual Control (LAC) represents a crucial step in easing tensions that...

Importance Of Mangroves In Cyclone Protection

Context: Cyclone Dana recently made landfall near Bhitarkanika National Park and Dhamra Port in Odisha. Despite state evacuation efforts, illegal...

Colonial Shadows: Unmasking Eurocentric Legacies in the Nobel Prize for Economics

Colonial Shadows: Unmasking Eurocentric Legacies in the Nobel Prize for Economics

Colonial Shadows This essay is based on ideas from “Endorsing Settler colonialism Eurocentrism” by K. Ratish Rajawat and Dev Chandrasekhar,...

Arthaśāstra and How to Build a Strong State: Lessons from Ancient India

Arthaśāstra and How to Build a Strong State: Lessons from Ancient India

This essay, based on Saikat K Bose’s paper “Historicising the Arthaśāstra: Early Fiscal-Military States in South Asia” published on the...