Harsh V. Pant and Aditya Gowdara Shivamurthy This month, Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi visited Sri Lanka and the Maldives. On the surface, the trip was part of an effort by China to make further inroads into South Asia and cement…
Tikender Singh Panwar The general approach towards urban empowerment, including financial capabilities, has remained piecemeal in India The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) in a report, “State Finances, Study of Budgets of 2021-22”, released in November 2021, wrote: “With the…
Gender Bias and Gender Based Discrimination is omnipresent and continues to have an adverse impact on society, specially women. Over the past decades, feminists have acknowledged the bigotry existing in family laws and have fought for their rights and justice…
Chintamani Mahapatra At the time of the 2020 election campaigns as well as in his inaugural speech, Biden made several promises to the American electorate, but most of them have remained unfulfilled. He vowed to reunite the country that was…
Anil Trigunayat On January 27, PM Modi will be virtually hosting the leaders from Central Asian countries (CARs) in a first-ever Summit as they celebrate the 30th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations. C5 constitutes Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan,…
Sanjay Kumar, Chandrachur Singh Come elections, and defections and desertions become the flavor of the season. The assembly elections in Uttar Pradesh (UP) and four other states aren’t exceptions. Over the past few weeks, senior Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) minister…