Category Public Policies, Programs and Schemes

Canada

Reviving India-Canada Ties: The Moment for a Fresh Start and Renewed Strategy (2025)

Both India and Canada had bilateral trade nearing $10 billion in 2024, with potential to increase given the diaspora connections, cultural ties, and rising investments.

Bihar elections 2025

The Uncounted Loss: How Bihar’s Fate Was Sealed Before Polling Day

The Bihar results were out even before polling began: Bihar has lost, whoever the victor in the Assembly elections. With well over one crore women being paid Rs 10,000 crore by the incumbent government, supposedly for self-employment ventures, and promises of future fiscal support for such enterprises, the political economy of state handouts had been entrenched before polling began.

PMFME: Formalisation of micro food processing

Pradhan Mantri Formalisation of Micro Food Processing Enterprises (PMFME) Scheme – 2020

Policy UpdateMuskan Thakur Background The Pradhan Mantri Formalisation of Micro Food Processing Enterprises (PMFME) Scheme is a centrally sponsored initiative of the Ministry of Food Processing Industries (MoFPI) launched in June 2020 under the Atmanirbhar Bharat Abhiyan. With a total…

Mission LiFE: Lifestyle for Environment

Mission LiFE – Lifestyle for Environment – Policy Update 2025

Policy UpdateMuskan Thakur “This word is LiFE, which means ‘Lifestyle For Environment’. Today, there is a need for all of us to come together and take Lifestyle For Environment forward as a campaign. This can become a mass movement towards…

Diabetes

India’s Diabetes Crisis: The Alarming Rise Among Women

There was a time when diabetes was seen as a man’s disease a byproduct of business lunches, middle age, and city stress. In fact, a generation ago, a man in his forties with a receding hairline and a growing belly was often seen as a picture of prosperity a symbol of success and comfort. But that comfort, as we now know, often came from a more sedentary, less active lifestyle.

Bihar Election

The Economy of Influence: Grand Bribery and the Bihar Election Results

The Bihar results are astounding, with National Democratic Alliance (NDA) sweeping an unprecedented 202 seats (83%) out of 243. Political analysts and correspondents covering the elections have proved to be utterly wrong. Most of them expected it to be a close fight.

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