Category Science and Technology

India’s Nuclear Revolution and Military Strategy: A Work in Progress

Insights, Science and Technology

On May 11, 1998, India declared itself a nuclear weapon state by conducting a series of tests in the Thar desert. Under Jawaharlal Nehru and Homi Bhabha, India laid the foundation of an elaborate nuclear science programme in 1948, just a year after its Independence. Prime Minister (PM) Indira Gandhi conducted a peaceful nuclear explosion in May 1974. Yet, India took almost five decades to embrace nuclear weapons. No other country in the nuclear age gestated on its nuclear weapon-making potential for so long.

IMPRI, IMPRI and IMPRI
May 14, 2023

Artificial Intelligence: A Blessing in Disguise

Insights, Generation Alpha Data Centre, Science and Technology

Artificial intelligence can break down language barriers between Indian innovators in cultural production and their potential audiences around the world

IMPRI, IMPRI and IMPRI
May 3, 2023

Defence and Union Budget

Insights, Center for Human Dignity and Development, Center for the Study for Finance and Economics, Economy and Infrastructure, Science and Technology

Budget made for capital expenditure must increase if India is to keep pace with China's rising military might. India’s tumultuous and volatile strategic environment showed no signs of abating in intensity. New Delhi continues to face a two-front challenge from both of its primary foes, the People’s Republic of China (PRC) and Pakistan, notwithstanding the latter’s recent conciliatory overtures, which are only a smokescreen to tide over its dire economic vulnerabilities.

IMPRI, IMPRI, IMPRI and IMPRI
January 29, 2023

How Technology Access and Climate Gap Impact CO2 Removal?

Insights, Center for Environment, Climate Change and Sustainable Development, Center for Human Dignity and Development, Center for International Relations and Strategic Studies, Environment, Energy, Climate Change and Sustainable Development, International Relations and Strategic Studies, Science and Technology

The global cleavage on climate change is essentially between those that have grown rich enough to be climate-resilient and those that are not. The way to bridge this gap is not to set up any Loss and Damage Fund, but to spend any money that the rich countries have to spare on sucking carbon dioxide (CO2) out of the atmosphere.

IMPRI, IMPRI and IMPRI
January 28, 2023

The Need for IndOS: A Choice for a Fair Competition?

Insights, Center for ICT for Development, Economy and Infrastructure, Entrepreneurship, ICT and Innovation, Science and Technology

The government wants to create a mobile operating system (OS) to compete with the dominant Android, owned by Google, and Apple’s iOS operating systems that have pretty much divided up the global smartphone market (Chinese tech major Huawei uses its own Harmony operating system on its phones after US President Donald Trump ordered Google to deny Android to companies that violated the sanctions against Iran). The government has even come up with a name for it: IndOS.

IMPRI and IMPRI
January 21, 2023

Disaster Resilient Housing and Built Environment-5

Day 3 Video: Disaster Resilient Housing and Built Environment: Imperatives for Better Policy, Planning and Sustainable Cities

Videos, Agriculture, Food, Nutrition Security and Rural Development, Center for Environment, Climate Change and Sustainable Development, Center for Habitat, Urban and Regional Studies, Center for Human Dignity and Development, Center for ICT for Development, Economy and Infrastructure, Entrepreneurship, ICT and Innovation, Environment, Energy, Climate Change and Sustainable Development, Governance and Law, Livelihoods, Employment and Well-being, Public Finances and Macroeconomics, Public Policies, Programs and Schemes, Science and Technology, Social Sector, South Asia Studies Center, Urbanization, Habitat, Transportation and Regional Development

#WebPolicyLearning | Disaster Resilient Housing and Built Environment | NIDM and IMPRI National Institute of Disaster Management (NIDM), Ministry of Home Affairs, and #IMPRI Center for Habitat, Urban and Regional Studies (CHURS), IMPRI Impact and Policy Research Institute, New Delhi invite you…

IMPRI
December 15, 2022

Day 2 Video: Disaster Resilient Housing and Built Environment: Imperatives for Better Policy, Planning and Sustainable Cities

Videos, Agriculture, Food, Nutrition Security and Rural Development, Center for Environment, Climate Change and Sustainable Development, Center for Habitat, Urban and Regional Studies, Center for Human Dignity and Development, Center for ICT for Development, Economy and Infrastructure, Entrepreneurship, ICT and Innovation, Environment, Energy, Climate Change and Sustainable Development, Gender, Pluralism and Social Inclusion, Governance and Law, Livelihoods, Employment and Well-being, Public Policies, Programs and Schemes, Science and Technology, South Asia Studies Center, Urbanization, Habitat, Transportation and Regional Development

IMPRI
December 14, 2022