Insights, a blog published by IMPRI.
The split ruling of the Supreme Court, endorsing the validity of the 103rd Amendment to the Constitution to create a 10 per cent reservation quota exclusively for the poor (EWS) among the socially privileged, excluding the poor among the socially disprivileged, is bad in law, deficient in logic and oblivious of alternative designs for affirmative action.
During the course of its G20 Presidency—from 1 December 2022 to 30 November 2023—India aims to hold some 200 meetings involving 32 different sectors in multiple locations across the country, highlighting India’s development journey over the last 75 years.
The 20th Communist Party Congress in China signalled a total centralisation of powers in the person of Xi Jinping
The election victory of Lula DA Silva in Brazil and Benjamin Netanyahu in Israel, despite their extremely opposite political ideologies, will put India well placed in the current global political scenario.
When politics is viewed through a conventional lens of Right and Left, there is absolutely nothing in common between PM Modi and Brazil's President-Elect Lula Da Silva.
The Bank of England is of the view that further sharp increases in policy rates could do more damage than good. The RBI’s MPC will do well to bear this in mind.
The Supreme Court passed an order last week placing a fine of ₹1 lakh on an officer of the Enforcement Directorate (ED), to be deducted from his salary, for filing an appeal in the apex court against the bail granted by the Allahabad High Court to a cancer patient in a money laundering case. This is a most welcome development.