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India-Russia Arctic Security Dialogue (2025): Prospects for Deeper Strategic and Security Cooperation

India-Russia Arctic Security Dialogue (2025): Prospects for Deeper Strategic and Security Cooperation

The Arctic region is emerging as a strategic arena for geopolitical competition among both Arctic and non-Arctic superpowers. It comprises the northernmost parts of Norway, Sweden, Finland, Russia, the United States, Canada, Greenland (Denmark’s autonomous territory), and Iceland. The once largely ice-covered Arctic ocean is melting due to the accelerating effects of climate change, thereby opening up new opportunities for energy exploration and potential transit routes which are significantly shorter than the traditional Suez canal route.

National Food Security Act(NFSA), 2013

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The National Food Security Act (NFSA), 2013, was introduced by the Government of India to strengthen the Public Distribution System (PDS) in India, in order to provide food and nutritional security by ensuring access to food of sufficient quantity and quality to all beneficiaries. Before this Act, all households of India with a valid ration card received a fixed amount of commodities at a subsidised rate under the Targeted Public Distribution System.

Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas (2025)

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Policy UpdateAtharva Salunke Background: The Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas (MoPNG) is the principal body responsible for exploration and production, refining, distribution, import, and export of petroleum, natural gas, and allied products in India. Since oil and gas are…

India-Bhutan: Hydro-Electric Trade and Future Prospects

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India–Bhutan hydro-electric trade remains a high-value, mutually reinforcing partnership for energy security and development.Recent relations of bilateral trade operate through a mixed arrangement of long-term PPA (Power Purchase Agreements), and developer arrangements which is a State to State and increasing private participation - recently seen operations via electricity market access in India (Day-Ahead/Real Time markets).

India-Central Asia: The Need For Joint Counter-Narcotics Operations (2025)

India-Central Asia: The Need For Joint Counter-Narcotics Operations (2025)

Since the late 2010s, India has deepened strategic and economic ties with the five Central Asian Republics (CAR) of Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan in a bid to assert itself as a key regional power. With India re-strategising and increasing diplomatic engagement with the resource-abundant CARs, bilateral trade has also flourished, primarily in uranium, crude oil, natural gas, and a range of other critical minerals.

The Archaeological Survey of India (ASI) (2025)

The Archaeological Survey of India (ASI) (2025)

The Archaeological Survey of India (ASI) was established in the year 1862. However, archaeological and historical pursuits in India date back to the year 1784, when the efforts of Sir William Jones led to the formation of the Asiatic Society in Calcutta. This endeavour led by Jones and other dilettantes like Tavernier, Finch and Bernier, Thevenot, Anquetil De Perron, to name a few, also culminated in the publication of a journal called Asiatic Researches started in 1788.

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