This event report documents the IMPRI webinar on “Inside the Four Labour Codes,” examining the objectives, scope, and implications of India’s recent labour law reforms for workers, employers, and labour governance.
On the Occasion of Human Rights Day (10th December 2025), the IMPRI Gender Impact Studies Centre(GISC), under Impact and Policy Research Institute(IMPRI), New Delhi, brought together leading researchers, bioethicists, and scholars for a critical and interdisciplinary dialogue for a Gender Gap #WebPolicyTalk on “Women’s Rights are Human Rights”.
The panel discussion on “Air Pollution Crisis: Politics, Policy and Impact,” organized by the IMPRI Centre for Environment, Climate Change and Sustainable Development, brought together experts, practitioners, and policy analysts. They examined India's worsening air pollution emergency from scientific, political, economic, and public health angles.
DFPGYF Diplomacy, Foreign Policy & Geopolitics Youth Fellowship- Cohort 2.0 | An Online International Autumn School Program | A Four-Month Immersive Online Introductory Leadership Certificate Training Fellowship Program | July-October 2025 | IMPRI
On 9 October 2025, the IMPRI Centre for Habitat, Urban and Regional Studies (CHURS) brought together leading administrators, urban practitioners, and scholars for a #WebPolicyTalk on “The Role of the Directorate of Municipal Administration (DMA) & City Governance: Towards Developed Urban India 2047.” Against the backdrop of rapid peri-urbanisation, rising census towns, and overlapping mission architectures, the workshop emphasised that India’s urban ambitions for 2047 will be realised not by infrastructure projects alone but by strengthened municipal institutions. Speakers noted that a reimagined DMA – with clear legal mandate, fiscal tools, professional cadres, and data-driven systems – can act as the indispensable broker that translates national and state priorities into reliable local service delivery, resilience, and inclusive growth.
Participatory Research (PR) is a gamut of research designs, methods, and frameworks that use systematic inquiry, directly collaborating with those affected or being studied. (Cargo & Mercer, 2008).
The bombing of Iran represents the return of old-style imperialism, making the point that might is right with the biggest bang possible without exploding an atomic bomb. Which cat got the tongue of India, leader of the Global South, when the US bombed Iran? Why did the tongue of India, leader of the BRICS, turn mute, when the world called on Israel, at the UN, to end its genocide in Gaza? Cat, Cat burning bright, in the forests of Mt Zion and Washington DC, why this appetite for India’s respect among nations?