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Rajesh Tandon In remote villages of Husainabad block of Palamau district of Jharkhand, most people have heard of some disease called Corona, but do not know anyone personally who got infected, let alone anything about the vaccine. A recent field…
Dhiraj Nayyar If India needed another reminder on the need to reduce its import dependence in key sectors, it has one now. The recent spurt in inflation isn’t out of the textbook. This is not an argument for protectionism. The…
Devashish Dhar, Manish Thakre Child-friendly cities’ is an emerging concept in the urban management sector in many countries across the globe, including India, where it complements government schemes that aim to develop India’s urban spaces as centers of human capital…
Tikender Singh Panwar The Pegasus spyware, designed by an Israeli company, NSO, is in the news after revelations that it was used to hack the phones of over 1,000 Indians, including opposition leader Rahul Gandhi, journalists, Buddhist monks, and politicians.…
Tathagata Chatterji In October 2016, representatives from over 190 countries met at the charming Ecuadorean capital Quito, set at an altitude 2850m, for the Habitat III Conference of the UN-Habitat to adopt the lofty visions of the New Urban Agenda…
Amita Singh The government should present a white paper of the Pegasus hacking allegations and reclaim public trust for effective governance, or the idea of digitizing India may have to stand on stilts. The recent Pegasus spyware row confronting the…
T K Arun Corporate Insolvency Resolution can be fixed by revamping ARCS, to bring in competition among asset buyers. The Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code is broke. It must be fixed, both to increase recovery and to redeploy the assets locked…