Policy UpdateOM Vispute Background: According to Mahatma Gandhi, who saw villages as miniature republics, genuine democracy should start with grassroots involvement from each village’s residents. The Constitution (73rd Amendment) Act, 1992, gave Panchayati Raj institutions (PRIs) constitutional status to operate…
Prime Minister Narendra Modi undertook a five-nation tour starting with Africa and ending in Africa, with a significant focus on Africa throughout and the Global South as the overarching context. Speaking at the last leg of his tour at the Namibian Parliament, Prime Minister Modi reiterated his 10 guiding principles of India’s Africa policy, which he had first laid out in 2018 while addressing the Ugandan Parliament.
The G7’s future relevance will depend on its ability to stay united, share space, and shape the agenda with rising powers like India.
World Refugee Day (June 20) was established by the United Nations to commemorate the millions who are forced to escape persecution and war. Since solidarity involves listening to and defending rights, solidarity as a practice means that states and societies will allocate the resources, policies, and practices necessary to protect refugees: access to asylum, welcoming the new, and ending conflict. Solidarity also requires engaging against xenophobia, making empathy more concrete, and ultimately being supportive in context.
As UNHCR’s campaign page emphasizes, solidarity means saying courageously that refugees are “not alone” and that the world will “not turn its back” on them.
Union Home Minister Amit Shah's statement that a day would come when those who speak in English would hang their heads in shame has met with the predictable responses pointing out English's utility as an essential link language, within India and for the globalizing world, as the language of knowledge acquisition, and as a competitive edge for India over China. Some have pointed out that English is no longer a foreign tongue; Indians have evolved an Indian version of English that is all our own.
The National Backward Classes Finance & Development Corporation (NBCFDC) was founded on January 13th, 1992, under Section 25 of the Companies Act, 1956. It provides financial assistance through State Channelizing Agencies (SCAs) nominated by state governments and union territories and public sector and regional rural banks.