Insights, a blog published by IMPRI.
Dhiraj Nayyar Will the aftermath of Covid-19 alter global capitalism in a way that the global financial crisis of 2008 did not? Instead of waiting for governments to react under popular pressure, corporates must themselves set out on a different…
A Amarender Reddy Agricultural exports, if properly supported by infrastructure, institutional backup, packaging, freight transport and connected to the internal production system, can boost agricultural growth as well as farmers’ income. Some export bottlenecks such as problems in market access,…
T K Arun Taliban Redux dominated the week’s headlines, the development was gleefully melded into the campaign already underway for the Uttar Pradesh assembly elections early next year, the economy saw some tangible advance, even as the US Federal Open…
Santosh Mehrotra In 2017-18, NSO reported that unemployment reached a 45-year high, and youth unemployment tripled between 2011-12 and 2017-18 to over 18%. Thereafter, poor management resulted in economic growth slowing up to March 2020 — compounded by the pandemic…
Shashi Tharoor has been exonerated after torturous suffering of many years and so are many others likely to be after a free and fair trial in Indian courts which over-ambitious screen journalism has at every moment seized, diverted, and obstructed through their ‘TV-Khap Panchayat’ pre-trials. Many channels have learnt this quick selling art and craft in a market of TRPs as they transact on false perceptions of innocence and guilt nonetheless prejudicing the judges from the time of the NDTV telecast of R.K. Anand’s media trial in the famous BMW case of 2009.
On August 1, India assumed the presidency of the United Nations security council for the month and promptly got to work on setting the agenda with a focus on three major areas: maritime security, peacekeeping and counter-terrorism. India began its eighth two-year term as a non-permanent member of the UNSC on January 1; this is its first presidency during its 2021-2022 tenure. New Delhi clearly wants to leave a significant imprint of its presidency, as was underlined by the Union external affairs minister, S. Jaishankar, when he said that India will always be “a voice of moderation, an advocate of dialogue and a proponent of international law”.
In its sixth assessment report released on August 9, the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel (IPCC) on Climate Change has for the first time taken a departure from their conversative language and made a strong assertion, "It is unequivocal that human influence has warmed the atmosphere, ocean and land."