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Empowering Women in India’s Energy Transition: Bridging the Gender Gap Through Policy and Technology

India’s energy sector has witnessed rapid growth, driven by ambitious policies aimed at sustainability, energy security, and economic development. However, achieving a just energy transition requires addressing gender disparities in energy access, workforce participation, and benefits distribution. While India has made significant strides in renewable energy expansion and electrification, the gendered impact of these transitions remains an area requiring greater focus.

Transforming India’s Mining Sector: Key Reforms, Challenges, and Future Prospects

India's mining sector has long been a cornerstone of the nation's economic development, supplying essential raw materials to industries such as infrastructure, energy, defense, and technology. The country has vast mineral resources, including coal, iron ore, bauxite, and critical minerals integral to industrial and technological advancements. However, the sector faced persistent challenges for many years, hindering its efficiency and sustainability.

Our Rivers, Our Future: A Call for Action on International Day for Rivers on 14 March 2025

As another year passes, March 14th marks the International Day of River Restoration, a moment to reflect on the vital role rivers play in human civilization. For millennia, rivers have nurtured societies, economies, and ecosystems, yet their degradation continues at an alarming pace. Despite the global call for river restoration initiated in 1997 in Brazil, progress remains insufficient.

Global Tensions and Economic Shifts: The Trump Effect on Trade, Markets, and Geopolitics

The past week’s events have been dominated, once again, by US president Donald Trump. He has gleefully levied tariffs of 25% on imports from Canada and Mexico, and 20% on imports from China, renamed the Gulf of Mexico as the Gulf of America, announced that he is taking over the Panama Canal, built with American blood and treasure but given away to Panama by President Carter in a bout of idiocy that, according to the Trumpian worldview, tends to afflict people who are not Trump. President Trump also extended a warm welcome to the people of Greenland to join the United States, bringing with them their vast territory of strategic importance to the United States and bearing critical minerals.

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