TK Arun China is now the biggest potential source of global economic instability, thanks to mulish persistence with the zero-Covid strategy favored by its authoritarian leadership. This potential instability also manifests the contradiction between centralized decisionmaking and a capitalist economy…
Amita Singh In one of the consultative meetings of the World Food Programme on disaster management organized by Sphere India recently, somebody raised objections to the role of humanitarian law in disaster management on the logic that this is already…
IMPRI Team To discuss the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on women and to put light upon unpaid care work, the Gender Impact Studies Center (GISC), IMPRI Impact and Policy Research Institute, New Delhi, hosted a special lecture under the…
TK Arun Where should India stand on the standoff between Russia and the Western allies over Ukraine? From the limited point of view of a sovereign nation’s right to choose its allies and military pacts, as well as to host…
अनिल त्रिगुणायत श्रीलंका द्वारा कर्जों की अदायगी न कर पाने के मामले ने दुनिया का ध्यान चीन के कर्ज शिकंजे की ओर एक बार फिर खींचा है. कर्ज की शर्तों में बदलाव करने के श्रीलंकाई अनुरोध को चीन अभी मानने…
Santosh Mehrotra & Kingshuk Sarkar The Ministry of Labour and Employment launched the e-Shram portal on August 26, 2021, with the apparent objective of developing a national database of unorganized workers. The ministry estimates that there are 38 crores, unorganized…