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Simi Mehta, Ritika Gupta, Manoswini Sarkar Climate change is one of the most pressing issues that the world is collectively facing at the moment. It is contended that strengthening the global response is pertinent to combat the threat of climate…
Soumyadip Chattopadhyay, Arjun Kumar, Ritika Gupta, Sunidhi Agarwal, Nikhil Jacob The pandemic pushed the Indian economy to the greatest crisis that it ever had to face, leading to its collapse in the month of April/May 2020. Although the official data…
Soumyadip Chattopadhyay, Arjun Kumar, Anshula Mehta, Nikhil Jacob The Union Budget 2021 has taken a cue from the Economic Survey and focused on growth. In fact, it talks only about growth and not about mitigating inequalities, remarked Dr Jyotsna Jha,…
Tikender Panwar Except in a few, both urban and rural, elections to the local bodies passed off peacefully in Himachal Pradesh a few weeks ago. Municipal ward councilors were elected in the urban centers. Rural areas went through a three-tier…
Soumyadip Chattopadhyay, Arjun Kumar, Anshula Mehta, Nikhil Jacob The decade of 2010 – 2020 could be considered as the ‘lost decade’. The uncertainties surrounding a possible change in government during the early years, the haphazard rollout of the demonetization exercise,…
Budget 2021 was riding on a wave of immense expectations, given that the Indian economy was battered to a record low due to structural and cyclical issues, compounded by the impact of the pandemic. To decode what the Budget carried…
Gurinder Kaur On February 15, 2021, a three-judge green bench headed by Chief Justice of India S A Bobde allowed the Himachal Pradesh government to clear 614 hectares of forest and move ahead with 138 currently existing infrastructure projects. Apart…