India-Bhutan: Hydro-Electric Trade and Future Prospects
India–Bhutan hydro-electric trade remains a high-value, mutually reinforcing partnership for energy security and development.Recent relations of bilateral trade operate through a

Vahida Nainar is an independent researcher and has been working on gender issues for the past 25 years. Her PhD is a study on gender and reparation for conflict-related violence from the Advanced Centre of Women’s Studies, Tata Institute of Social Sciences. Vahida does research on Gender Equality, International Human Rights Law and Conflict. She has co-edited a book on ‘Pursuing Elusive Justice – Mass Crimes and Relevance of International Standard’ published by the Oxford University Press. Her other publications are available on her SSRN link https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/cf_dev/AbsByAuth.cfm?per_id=1488766
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India–Bhutan hydro-electric trade remains a high-value, mutually reinforcing partnership for energy security and development.Recent relations of bilateral trade operate through a
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