Beyond the Budget 2025: The Need for Bold Defence Funding Reforms
The first full Budget of the Modi government’s third term allocated ₹6.81 trillion, marking a 9.5 per cent increase from the ₹6.21 trillion allocated in the 2024-25 Union Budget.
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Modi-Trump Bonhomie Falls Short Amid Immigration Controversy
Now Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi is to meet US president Donald Trump in the US. What could come out of it?
The Broader Budgetary Course Cannot Be Overshadowed by Targeted Appeasement
There were high hopes from the just-presented Union budget 2025-26, given the challenges facing the economy. There have been consistent signs of a slowdown in the economy, rising unemployment and persisting high inflation.
Budget 2025: Addressing the Job Crisis with Action, Not Rhetoric
The unemployment rate in the last five quarters, according to the Periodic Labour Force Survey (PLFS), has been hovering around 6.5 per cent of the labour force. This broad fact of the economy is often highlighted by the government to demonstrate that there is no immediate crisis in employment generation.
Indo-Pacific Pledge: Forging Unwavering Partnerships
Under the new Trump administration, the Indo-Pacific is likely to regain prominence but with a sharper focus on hard power dynamics
India’s Defence and Foreign Policy in the Union Budget 2025-26: Strategic Allocations and Global Implications
IMPRI Center for International Relations and Strategic Studies, IMPRI Impact and Policy Research Institute, New Delhi, hosted a panel discussion on ‘Defence, Foreign Policy, and the Union Budget 2025-26’ under its 6th Annual Series of Thematic Deliberations and Analysis of the Interim Union Budget 2025-26.
India’s AI Ambitions: Grand Vision, Baby Steps, and a Long Road Ahead
India is going to make available cloud computing capacity to researchers and industry at ultra-low costs per compute (jargon for a single computational operation, like running a specific algorithm). The idea is sound, and needs to be implemented, and scaled up. But it will not prevent India still being a laggard in AI.