Anil Trigunayat India hosted the Foreign Ministers of the BRICS countries in New Delhi in the backdrop of the US and Israeli war on Iran and its fallout to the Gulf countries. A consensus eluded as Iran and the UAE…
Policy UpdateAsmatwali Background The Chabahar Port project has, for over a decade, occupied a singular place in India’s foreign policy imagination: a deep-water gateway on Iran’s Gulf of Oman coast offering New Delhi direct maritime access to Afghanistan and Central…
Policy UpdateSruti Halder Background The Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code (IBC), 2016 established a time-bound framework for resolving corporate insolvency through the National Company Law Tribunal (NCLT), the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Board of India (IBBI), and licensed Insolvency Professionals. The Insolvency…
France’s Feminist Foreign Policy is an example of how a state can connect diplomacy, development and gender equality. This is a diplomatic approach that puts women’s and girls’ rights at the centre of action. In development cooperation it moves gender from secondary concern to a core objective by advancing women’s rights and wider social development. limited to strategy; it is actively implemented through strong advocacy in international forums such as the UN Commission on the Status of Women and European institutions.
Kishtwar district has emerged as a strategic centre for hydropower development in Jammu and Kashmir because of the hydropower potential of the Chenab River and its major tributary, the Marusudar River. Hydropower development in the district began with the commissioning of the 390 MW Dul Hasti Hydroelectric Project in 2007.For several decades, further expansion remained subject to the provisions of the Indus Waters Treaty (IWT), 1960. The treaty allocated the waters of the Chenab River to Pakistan. However, it permitted India to undertake "non-consumptive" uses, primarily through run-of-the-river hydropower generation.
Atharva Salunke India’s security environment has changed fundamentally over the last decade. Conventional military threats continue to exist, but they are now accompanied by rapidly evolving challenges such as drone warfare, electronic warfare, cyber threats, precision-guided munitions, and persistent surveillance.…