Insights, a blog published by IMPRI.
On the morning of August 26, a wall of ice, rock and water tore down from Langtang-Lirung through the Bhotekoshi valley into Nepal and Tibet. Villages vanished. Bridges that had stood for generations were gone within minutes. Over 270 bodies have been recovered; more than a thousand people, many of them foreign trekkers on the Langtang route, remain missing.
The launch of the Biopharma SHAKTI (Strategy for Healthcare Advancement through Knowledge, Technology, and Innovation) scheme in the Union Budget 2026–27 marks a decisive structural pivot in India’s health-industrial policy.
India’s export architecture has historically remained concentrated within prominent industrial clusters and metropolitan port cities, leaving the vast economic potential of its interior districts largely underutilized. To address this structural imbalance and drive grassroots economic formalization, the One District One Product (ODOP) initiative was launched.
In the elections to the State Assemblies of Keralam, Tamil Nadu, West Bengal, Assam, and the Union Territory of Puducherry, one emerging pattern had been the engagement, or lack thereof, of the younger generation, the Gen Zs in particular, in the electoral process.
Electricity is a concurrent-list subject in India, and the framework for national-level power sector planning was laid down by the Electricity Act, 2003, which mandates the Central Government to formulate a National Electricity Policy (NEP) in consultation with the Central Electricity Authority (CEA) and the State Governments, and to review it from time to time (Ministry of Power). Under this mandate, the first National Electricity Policy (NEP 2005) was notified on 12 February 2005, at a time when the sector was defined by demand-supply deficits, limited household access to electricity, and weak generation, transmission and distribution infrastructure.
Every year, over 450 million workers, many of them migrants, engaged in agriculture, construction, street vending, sanitation, and transport are exposed to dangerous heat levels. Now that India has notified heat as a disaster, its success must be measured by whether fewer workers are forced to choose between their health and wages.
The grammar of the West Asia war is changing yet again. While on the battlefront Iran may have comparatively lost in grey-zone warfare, it has been perceived as a winner, even if in wars there are only losers, since it is seen as an unjust aggression given the limited credibility of the US and Israel and the lack of international support, even from their NATO allies.