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Insights, a blog published by IMPRI.

Can Compensatory Afforestation cure all woes?

Manoj Misra The National Green Tribunal (NGT) had constituted a committee to oversee the construction of the Dehradun-Delhi highway – a project that would require the diversion of 57 ha of forests and the felling of nearly 11,000 trees. Recently,…

The State of Congress Party- Don’t Blame Prashant Kishor

Prashant Kishor is a modest man. He knows that only one man had ever come in as a total outsider and taken over the leadership of the Congress party, one Mohandas Karamchand. Kishor would not want the world to get the impression that he thinks PK is a close enough substitute for MK, the variation in the initials entirely justifiable on account of the passage of time.

Are we ready for Automation and Electronic Processing?

Arun Kumar Automation and electronic processing via net are becoming ubiquitous. E-banking and E-commerce have gained wide acceptance in society, especially during the last two years when mobility was restricted due to the pandemic and periodic lockdowns. Many, especially the…

The conflicts that just don’t go away

Anil Trigunayat While the Russia-Ukraine war and the patriotic histrionics of Zelensky, obduracy of Putin and bluffing by the West and incongruity of Biden hog the limelight of media and the paparazzi across the spectrum, the forever wars especially in…

East meets West

Harsh V. Pant As Russia’s war with Ukraine drags on, India’s engagement with the West has accelerated. Interestingly, instead of the pressure that many had feared would be put on India to toe the Western line on Ukraine, there seems…

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