Insights, a blog published by IMPRI.
In the words of William D. Nordhaus: "Those who emit emissions do not have to pay to do so. Those who are affected by those emissions do not receive compensation. In short, carbon emissions represent a market failure which will require a price to be explicitly set."
Metro networks are an essential part of urban transport planning but, a metro trip doesn’t merely start or end at the metro station. Commuters are usually required to take other forms of transport such as walking, buses, auto-rickshaws, cycling, among others to complete their trip.
The human race, the anthropocene, has deeply integrated itself into every system while moulding itself into a better one. Governance and legal systems, economic and market systems, infrastructural and technological systems, socio-cultural systems, ecological and natural systems have always influenced each other too. However, they are bound by ecological limits or the greater concept of limits to growth that restrain the resources, driving scarcity to reform a global transition.
Unauthorised colonies have grown throughout Delhi for many decades. An unauthorised colony is defined as a settlement that has emerged without the necessary approvals concerning the layout, land use, or building plan (MoHUA, 2019). As per the Government of Delhi, the unauthorised colonies have been developing from the very beginning of the planned development of Delhi. The large-scale migration and shortage of affordable housing contributed to their development (Department of Urban Development, Government of NCT of Delhi [UD Delhi], n.d.).
India's power system is adding clean generation faster than it can store it. Installed generation capacity stood at 520.5 GW on 31 January 2026. The Central Electricity Authority (CEA) projects 1,121 GW by 2035-36, with non-fossil sources rising to about 70% of capacity from about 52% today (CEA, 2026).
India's digital expansion has brought a darker companion: stalking, sextortion, morphed images, fake profiles and child sexual abuse material. By 2018 it was clear that police stations, forensic facilities and courts had not kept pace. Policing is a State subject, and most State forces lacked both trained personnel and the tools to handle digital evidence.
Bharatmala Pariyojana is a flagship highway development programme of the Government of India, launched in 2017 under the Ministry of Road Transport and Highways (MoRTH). The programme was introduced in response to several structural gaps in India’s highway network. These included the inadequate optimisation of the National Highway network due to resource constraints and the absence of a comprehensive national plan, limited integrated planning for connecting major economic corridors and ports with their hinterlands, persistent congestion points even along developed corridors, and inadequate accident-response infrastructure (MoRTH, 2017).