Insights, a blog published by IMPRI.
India is pulling out all the stops to reach out to the “first citizens” who reside in hamlets along the India-China border. Under the Vibrant Villages Programme (VVP), nearly 3,000 villages selected along the 3,400-km-long border are set to get better infrastructure facilities, and ₹2,500 crore has been set aside to construct roads.
Environmental sustainability refers to ecological balance, and for nearly two thousand years, humans have been carbonizing and degrading our planet, which has contributed to global climate change that is making existence on this planet worrisome. To cope with this issue and achieve a sustainability mission, LiFE was introduced with its proactive global implementation that will bring substantial co-benefits in terms of reducing inequalities in energy consumption, mitigation of air pollution, cost savings, and improvements in well-being and health. Our country is witnessing various challenges, such as a rise in atmospheric CO2 that had never crossed 300 ppm for the last 800,000 years has reached 420 ppm and is still rising, Himalayan ice sheets are melting at a very high pace that is 10 times faster at the last 4 decades than in the last 7 centuries, global sea level is expected to rise 2-6 feet by 2100, and global economy will lose around 18% of GDP by 2050 if no climate action is taken.
Sudanese have suffered a week long violence that was not seen before except in the Darfur some 20 years ago. This time it is the battle of supremacy between the current ruler military chief General Burhan and his rival deputy Gen Mohammed Hamdan Dagalo also notoriously called Hemedti heading the Rapid Support forces (RSF) drawn from the feared Janjaweed militias that held and continue to hold sway over the Darfur region.
April 22, 2023, marked three important dates: Earth Day, Eid ul Fitr, and Lenin’s birth anniversary. All these three dates are important in the ongoing evolutionary process of our planet Earth. The United Nations started observing Earth Day in 1970 and this is the 53rd edition of the event.
e-RUPI is a digital payment solution that was launched in August 2021 by the Government of India and the digital rupee was tossed on December 1, 2022. As proposed ever since its inception, there were many discussions revolved around this fancy term. As there exist a large asymmetry on the realities of India’s digital currency, here we try to comprehend what it is and how to move forward. This policy update tries to bring on the discussion on the lights of major characteristics and attributes behind the payment mechanism, its benefits, and challenges ahead.
China will be an ongoing challenge for the Indian foreign and security policy establishment. Its hegemonistic ambitions are clearly evident from the fact that its territorial ingress and disputes are with more countries than it shares a border with.
After the perfidious war of 1962, India became wiser and focussed on creating stronger defences against Chinese designs which have become far more robust during the past few years as greater focus on creating state of the art border infrastructure and quick response mechanisms have been created.
Despite an increased share (30%) of livestock in the agricultural GDP, most of the big-ticket budget items in agriculture, such as food subsidy and fertiliser subsidy, cater to the crop sector.
ANIMAL husbandry, the practice of breeding and nurturing domesticated animals, has been an essential part of agriculture since ancient times. It played a crucial role in the development of human societies by providing milk, meat, wool and leather. Now its role in producing and exporting dairy-based products (cheese, butter, ice cream etc.), meat and meat products, eggs and leather is increasing.