The commentariat’s consensus of an empty summit misses China’s embrace of a superpower disdain for multilateralism.

In India, despite the long-standing presence of the Registration of Births and Deaths (RBD) Act, enacted in 1969, the Civil Registration System (CRS) continues to suffer from systemic limitations that ...

With climate change, the state experiences two extreme weather events like summer heatwaves and severe monsoon rainfall, both of which lead to school closures to avoid calamities, while compromising ...

In contemporary discourse, environmental policies—including those related to land, forests and climate change—are increas­ingly recognised as arenas of struggle over authority and state–citizen ...

Unemployment is largely an urban phenomenon, and mostly affects the young and the highly educated. As pointed out by the recently released State of Working India report (APU 2026), unemployment rates ...

The state has witnessed the formation of governments by either the Indian National Congress (INC) or the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). Also, despite attempts, the so-called “third force” has not seen ...

These concerns are expected, given that MGNREGA utilised public expenditure of just around 0.3% of India’s gross domestic product and provided employment to nearly five crore rural households annually ...

The size and structure of this sector provide insight into women’s roles in the economy, highlighting both their contributions and the challenges they face in gaining formal recognition. Women ...

As the spectacle of violence gets unleashed, Gandhi is found examining his own assumptions on truth and perfectibility of humans, wondering about his self-realisation. The Diary provides glimpses into ...

Carbonised small millet seeds made up 15% to 55% of all the seeds collected from three different ecological regions within the IVC. Scientists have observed certain biases in millet preferences during ...

There are times when survival is success. This perspective must inform our assessment of the recently concluded summit of the BRICS grouping in New Delhi, hosted by the Government of India.There are ...

The invention of the bomb—establishing an early nuclear monopoly—led to an over-militarisation of the Cold War conflict, and four decades of dangerous global tensions that eased only after the ...