Amid G7 Drift:India and Canada Reignite Bilateral Ties
The G7’s future relevance will depend on its ability to stay united, share space, and shape the agenda with rising powers like India.
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The Ministry of Power: Reforming India’s Power Sector – Clean Energy, Electrification and Beyond
India’s Ministry of Power (MoP) stands at a pivotal crossroad—balancing an ambitious scaling of renewable energy and electrification with the urgent necessity to reform entrenched financial and infrastructural bottlenecks. Its ability to drive DISCOM reform, grid modernization, and storage uptake will define whether India achieves its 2030 clean energy goals and sets the stage for a 2047 decarbonized grid.
The End of the Proxy Era: Entering West Asia’s Age of Direct Confrontation
The twelve-day war between Iran and Israel and the direct bombing of Iranian nuclear facilities by the US dramatically ended in a fragile ceasefire – as usual announced by President Donald Trump.
Commissioning of Polarimetric Doppler Weather Radars
Polarized Doppler Weather Radars (DWRs) are forecasting systems that use both horizontal and vertical polarization to gather detailed information about precipitation. The operating frequencies of DWRs can range from S-band to X-band, depending on terrain, application, and coverage range. Commissioning PDWRs is an initiative by the Ministry of Earth Sciences (MoES) and is part of one of the eight sub-schemes of ACROSS (Atmospheric & Climate
At the Heart of Israel-Iran Conflict: Western Domination
The subjective compulsion might be Netanyahu’s need to keep a war going to stay in power, but the objective result is driving home the point that might is right:
As Israel and Iran exchange missiles, and Iran gets battered, with its oil and gas facilities getting destroyed, what is at stake for India? Should India worry about anything beyond the price of oil going up, and of possible disruptions to shipping through the straits of Hormuz? Or, as Islamophobes tweet in India, should India be happy that the Islamic theocracy of Iran is being humiliated? Does Israel’s support of the Indian position over Operation Sindoor override all other considerations, including moral compunctions over the genocide still underway in Gaza? Or should collateral damage to the Haifa port, operated by an Indian company, the Adanis, be the major consideration for India?
Anganwadi Services in India: A Cornerstone of Child and Maternal Welfare
Anganwadi Services, which have been running under the Integrated Child Development Services (ICDS) scheme, constitute one of India's largest and most influential public welfare systems. The ICDS was launched on October 2, 1975,
Conservation of Water Bodies: Wetlands
Wetlands are a unique and productive ecosystem where terrestrial and aquatic habitats meet. They are described as the transitional land between terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems