Over the past two decades, India’s urban transport planning has shifted heavily toward high-cost, capital-intensive metropolitan rail systems. Promoted as the definitive solution for traffic congestion, vehicular emissions, and rapid urbanization, billions of dollars have been systematically funneled into building heavy rail infrastructure.
Space is no longer a purely scientific domain; it has become a strategic theatre of competition. Modern warfare depends heavily on satellites for communication, navigation, intelligence gathering, missile warning, surveillance and precision targeting.
India's maritime destiny is written in its geography. With a coastline stretching over 7,500 kilometres (including island territories, over 11,000 km) and 13 coastal states and Union Territories,
Access to quality higher education in India has long been held hostage by financial barriers. Meritorious students from low and middle-income families routinely forgo top institutions not from lack of ability, but lack of funds
Policy UpdateNeha Kumari The Battle of the Somme was one of the most devastating battles of the First World War, but its importance goes far beyond the losses of 1916. Fought on a sixteen-mile stretch of the Western Front in…
China’s objectives towards the EU, enunciated in a Communist Party leader’s 1977 editorial in the party mouthpiece People’s Daily, are mostly fulfilled.
Mr. Modi has been PM of India for the last 12 years. In 2014 the long period of coalition rule at the Center ended and hat was characterized as a period of uncertainty when hard decisions could not be taken and consequently there was policy paralysis and economic downturn.