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Rethinking Airport Privatisation: Lessons from India’s Bidding Experience

Rethinking Airport Privatisation: Lessons from India’s Bidding Experience

Airports are local monopolies, for the most part. Who gets to operate them and on what terms matter to the public at large. Sure, there is a regulator, the Aeronautic Economic Regulatory Authority of India to regulate aeronautical and other charges at any given airport.

Part-Time Patriarchy: Gender bias in popular media

Part-Time Patriarchy: Gender bias in popular media

Patriarchy refers to a system of social organisation in which power, authority and privilege are unevenly distributed in favour of men. It works not only through formal institutions like the state, family or workplace but also through culture, stories, symbols, humour, and everyday representations that normalise unequal gender relations.

Beyond ‘Mother of All Deals’: The Real Impact of the India–EU FTA

Beyond ‘Mother of All Deals’: The Real Impact of the India–EU FTA

India and the European Union have signed a free trade agreement that both sides have hailed as “the mother of all deals”.

The agreement, announced on Tuesday, came together over nearly two decades of intermittent negotiations and during a geoeconomic crisis triggered by United States President Donald Trump’s trade war.

India-Bangladesh Coastal Shipping (2026): Strengthening Riverine Connectivity for Subregional Maritime Integration

India-Bangladesh Coastal Shipping (2026): Strengthening Riverine Connectivity for Subregional Maritime Integration

Over the last decade, India and Bangladesh, as littoral neighbours in the Bay of Bengal, have sought to revitalise maritime connectivity to deepen bilateral engagement and foster wider regional cooperation. Bilateral trade has increased substantially in recent years, despite periodic setbacks, making Bangladesh India’s largest trading partner in South Asia. In FY 2024-25, India’s exports to Bangladesh stood at approximately USD 11.49 billion, while imports were valued at around USD 2 billion, resulting in a trade surplus favouring India.

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