Insights, a blog published by IMPRI.
Harsh V. Pant & Shashank Mattoo As Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida landed in Delhi, the stakes were high. While both sides were meeting to continue the tradition of annual bilateral summits, neither party could ignore the broader shifts in…
T K Arun Modern chess evolved from the game Indians called chaturanga, meaning four angas or anatomical parts. The four elements of the ancient Indian army were the infantry, the cavalry, the elephantry, and the chariots. Moving pieces to gain…
Anil Trigunayat The Russia-Ukraine war has caused immense human suffering and a crisis of confidence in the current selective rule-based international order and its limits. Whatever the impact, the crippling and sweeping western sanctions may have eventually given salience to the desired…
The challenge for trade unions is how to confront the giant and hard State. That is a greater challenge than organizing annual rituals.
Mohan Chandra Pargaien Tree planting or forest restoration has now become one of the important routes to achieve net-zero targets by 2070 as committed by India at the climate conference COP26 conducted last year in Glasgow. There is no doubt that businesses,…
Manoj Misra The Indian Council of Forestry Research and Education (ICFRE) under the Union Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change (MOEFCC) has recently prepared Detailed Project Reports (DPRs) for the rejuvenation of 13 Indian rivers and released a document…
Even before COVID-19, the unemployment rate touched a peak in 2017-18 at 6.1%. The urban unemployment rate was 7.8% and the rural unemployment rate was 5.3%. While the unemployment rate declined to 5.8% in 2018-19 and 4.8% in 2019-20, urban unemployment declined marginally to 7.7% and 6.9%, respectively. It was stubbornly around 7-8% during 2021 and later. If we consider the current weekly status quarterly unemployment statistics for urban areas, it was 9.4% in January-March 2021 and rose to 12.6% in April-June 2021.