A Shot in the Arm for a Declining Congress

February 3, 2023

A Shot in the Arm for a Declining Congress While the biggest achievement of the Yatra was its ability to attract crowds and offer much-needed media mileage to the Congress, the padyatra, with Rahul Gandhi at the helm, also attracted support from other opposition parties and leaders. Congress ally-DMK chief...

CENSUS 2021, PANDEMIC AND DELAYS

January 13, 2023

In the first week of January 2023,the office of the Registrar General of India (RGI) extended the deadline for freezing of the administrative boundaries in the country to 30th June 2023. The deadline to freeze jurisdictional boundaries for Census 2021, a necessity before any Census activity begins, has been extended...

Assembly Pit Stops Before 2024 Lok Sabha polls

January 6, 2023

Assembly elections in Gujarat and Himachal Pradesh threw up an interesting development towards the end of 2022 in India’s political journey to the crucial 2024 Lok Sabha polls. The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) consolidated its mandate in the country by securing a landslide victory with 152 out of 182 seats...

India 2022: Politics & Economics

December 30, 2022

As 2022 comes to a close, a reflection on the year gone by reveals developments that left a significant impact on the landscape of India. Politics in India changed on a momentous scale through the year, from the emergence of another national party to the result of seven assembly elections...

E-Rupee: Costs and Benefits of Replacing Cryptos

December 16, 2022

On 12th December 2022, in a written reply to the Lok Sabha, the Minister of State for Finance Pankaj Chaudhary said that the Reserve Bank of India (RBI)’s Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC) pilot in the retail segment has underlying technology backed by the widely used blockchain technology and has...

2022 Assembly Results: BJP Strengthens, Congress Re-emerges, AAP Rises

December 14, 2022

On 8th December 2022, the Election Commission of India released the results for the 2022 Assembly Elections in Gujarat and Himachal Pradesh. The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), in power in both states, witnessed celebration as well as disappointment. In Gujarat, the party made history by winning a seventh term and...

2022 UP Civic Polls Set Stage for 2024 Lok Sabha elections

December 2, 2022

Elections to the urban local bodies of Uttar Pradesh are less than a month away. All major political parties in the fray ranging from the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), Indian National Congress (INC), and Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) to regional parties like Samajwadi Party (SP) and Suheldev Bhartiya Samaj Party...

2022 DPDP DRAFT Bill: Protecting Personal DIGITAL Data?

November 25, 2022

The Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY) recently released the draft of the Digital Personal Data Protection (DPDP) Bill 2022 by inviting public comments and consultations on the provisions of the updated bill. The draft bill aims to delineate the provision of personal data protection in the country in...

Morbi mishap: Rethink Public Infrastructure Management urgently

November 4, 2022

On 30 October 2022, the collapse of a suspension bridge in Morbi, Gujarat led to the death of over 140 citizens, with several reported missing and injured. The bridge over the Machchhu river was more than a century old and was thrown open just four days ago after nearly seven...

India’s coal story so far

October 20, 2022

Even as India moves towards a cleaner economy with non-fossil fuels, or renewable sources of energy becoming more widely used, coal remains the mainstay of India’s energy needs. It accounts for 50.3 per cent of the country’s energy needs and is the most abundant fossil fuel in India. However, its...