Vietnam’s US Trade Deal Shows the Risks India Must Avoid
Meanwhile, as China forges ahead in artificial intelligence and robotics, India is stuck with half-baked R&D schemes.
IMPRI Desk
8 Years of GST in India: What Went Wrong with the One-Nation-One-Tax Promise?
GST WAS LAUNCHED ON JULY 1, 2017 with the promise that it would transform the Indian economy. It was characterized as a second freedom since it would unify the nation. Eight years later, it is time to assess its performance. While the Prime Minister has lauded the tax, the Leader of Opposition in the Lok Sabha Rahul Gandhi, has criticised it since it marginalises the marginals.
The Ministry of Power: Reforming India’s Power Sector – Clean Energy, Electrification and Beyond
India’s Ministry of Power (MoP) stands at a pivotal crossroad—balancing an ambitious scaling of renewable energy and electrification with the urgent necessity to reform entrenched financial and infrastructural bottlenecks. Its ability to drive DISCOM reform, grid modernization, and storage uptake will define whether India achieves its 2030 clean energy goals and sets the stage for a 2047 decarbonized grid.
Beyond Sindoor: Terrorism, Tactics, and the Global Gaze
Post-Pahalgam, grey-zone warfare has been on full display, as Islamabad and Rawalpindi peddled fake narratives and carefully crafted a facade of innocence—attempting to mislead the world, especially the gullible Western audience—in the wake of heinous terrorist attacks and the killing of innocent tourists in Jammu and Kashmir by the Pakistan-based terrorist group, ‘The Resistance Front (TRF),’ an offshoot of the proscribed Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT).
National Supercomputing Mission (NSM) & High-Performance Computing in India: Progress and Prospects, 2025
the Government of India launched the National Supercomputing Mission (NSM) as a joint initiative of the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY) and the Department of Science & Technology (DST).
Empowering Citizens Digitally: The Role of the National Portal of India
The National Portal of India is a core part of the National E-Governance Plan, developed by the National Informatics Centre (NIC). This is the official portal of the Government of India, developed and hosted by the National Informatics Centre (NIC), a premier ICT organisation of the Government of India under the aegis of the Ministry of Electronics & Information Technology. The main aim is to provide a single-window facility for government information and services, including the central government, state governments, district administrations, and panchayats.