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Amendments in The Land Preservation Act

Tikender Singh Panwar This year on world environment day three aspects are of umpteen importance in ensuring a sustainable world. Reducing carbon emission; the challenge of biodiversity, the rapid pace with which it is reducing and; the massive land-use change…

Withering away of India’s Demographic Dividend

Devender Singh “Let us recognise our demographic dividend. Our nation is young. The world needs skilled manpower.” – Prime Minister Narendra Modi, June 11, 2014. “It is critical to prepare the ‘demographic dividend’ of the country as per the demands…

Shinzo Abe & his India Connection

Harsh V. Pant Japan’s longest-serving Prime Minister Shinzo Abe died on 8 July 2022, hours after he was shot at a rally while campaigning for elections to Japan’s upper house. Abe was instrumental in shaping and strengthening India–Japan ties, and…

Abe leaves behind a formidable legacy

Harsh V. Pant & Shashank Mattoo Japan before Shinzo Abe seemed like a country adrift. Its economy, hamstrung by years of low growth and an aging population, was feared to be in terminal decline. China’s meteoric rise threatened its security…

Shinzo Abe & China

Srikanth Kondapalli China’s official response to the assassination of former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe as “shocking” and “unexpected incident” is at variance with the scorn being poured out on its rabid Communist Party-backed nationalist social networking sites. In some…

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