Anil Trigunayat Arab Spring (2010) may have failed in some respects after forcing the removal of Mubarak and Gaddafi as all the countries including Ben Ali’s Tunisia continue to go through the political churn but it had shown the way…
T K Arun In the US, young people are immersed in technology in their everyday life. In much of India, that is not the case. Things have to be learnt. In the US, it is not uncommon for bright young…
Akriti Bhatia The potential political backlash of implementing these codes could be causing the government to hold off until after the crucial assembly elections in Uttar Pradesh next year. Despite pitching the new labour codes as “big reforms”, the Union…
Sanjeev Sanyal, the principal economic adviser, recently said, "Many of these old master plans, Le Corbusier-inspired planning and ideas that we still teach by the way in the SPA (School of Planning and Architecture) and other institutions, first of all, we need to throw them in the dustbin"
Last week, U.S. President Joe Biden hosted the leaders of Australia, India, and Japan at the White House for the first in-person summit of the Quadrilateral Security Dialogue, or Quad. The four leaders issued an ambitious joint statement—rather than separate ones, as in the past. The agenda focused largely on solving global challenges such as climate change and access to vaccines, signaling that the Quad is not merely a geopolitical clique, as China has asserted.
This event report is based on a webcast discussion on “Rethinking the City” by Prof Pithamber Rao Polsani. The event is organized by the Center for Habitat, Urban and Regional Studies (CHURS) at IMPRI Impact and Policy Research Institute, New…