The North East Road Sector Development Scheme was launched during the Financial Year 2015-16, to take up rehabilitation, construction, and/or upgradation of the following categories of roads (including bridges on the roads) in the North Eastern Region (NER) in order of priority:
India and Mexico have a long history of relationship, based on historical, cultural, and economic similarities. Both nations have varying geo-climatic conditions, rich diversity, and a similar civilizational legacy. Diplomatic relations were created between India and Mexico in 1950, making Mexico the first Latin American nation to establish relations with independent India. 2025 will celebrate the 75th anniversary of the India-Mexico relationship which will thus mark the diamond jubilee of a lasting partnership and the march of mutual benefit and growth (Embassy of India, Mexico City, 2025).
The Commission on Sustainable Development (CSD) was founded in December 1992 to follow up on the progress of Agenda 21 (an action plan for Sustainable Development) and other associated accords, including the Rio Declaration on Environment and Development, as well as the Johannesburg Plan of Implementation (JPOI) at the local, national, regional, and international levels.
Two years and two days after the terrorist attack by Hamas fighters from the Gaza Strip that killed around 1,200 Israelis, and the beginning of Israel’s brutal retaliation, that leading genocide scholars and a UN Commission have labelled genocide, a ceasefire plan appears to be taking hold.
The Make in India campaign is a paradigm change in the Indian economic policy that was launched by the Prime Minister, Narendra Modi, in September 2014. It was at this very critical juncture when the world was doubting whether India could sustain its high population birth rates, and at the same time keep up with the economic development process.
Policy UpdateBavleen Background The Government e‑Marketplace (GeM) portal is India’s flagship digital platform for government procurement of goods and services, launched on 9 August 2016 by the Ministry of Commerce & Industry (MoCI) to drive greater efficiency, transparency, and inclusiveness in…
Changes in America’s economic structure, coupled with its global dominance in the services sector, explain why manufacturing now occupies only a modest share of the nation’s GDP
The latest installment of the Make-America-Great-Again (MAGA) assault on globalised economic growth takes the form of an import duty of 100% on a segment of pharmaceuticals.