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Power, Oil and the Monroe Doctrine

Claims of a swift US military operation in Venezuela, followed by regime change and a scramble for oil,...

 January 14, 2026

India’s Critical Minerals Midstream Gap

The global race for critical minerals has decisively moved beyond mining pits and factory floors. The real contest...

 January 14, 2026

Can Stablecoins Be Legitimate Money?

The idea of a “stablecoin” — a cryptocurrency fully backed by a trusted asset such as gold or...

 January 14, 2026

Coal Power Turning Point in India

For the first time in nearly five decades, coal-fired electricity generation in India recorded a year-on-year decline in...

 January 14, 2026

Monroe Doctrine and Its Modern Echoes

When the United States recently invoked the Monroe Doctrine to justify action against Venezuela, many historians were taken...

 January 14, 2026

Economic Equality and India’s Growth Debate

Public debates in India often treat economic equality as a dangerous idea — a distraction from poverty reduction,...

 January 14, 2026

Is India at Risk of Data Dumping?

In global trade debates, “dumping” is often dismissed as a red herring: after all, goods enter a country...

 January 14, 2026

Power Politics Behind U.S. Action in Venezuela

When Donald Trump announced U.S. military action against Venezuela from Mar-a-Lago, the language he employed left little ambiguity...

 January 14, 2026

Biofuels, Solar Power and Land Trade-offs

Electric vehicles dominate today’s low-carbon transport narrative, but two decades ago, biofuels were widely seen as the future....

 January 14, 2026

India’s Article 6 Carbon Market Push

The operationalisation of carbon markets under Article 6 of the Paris Agreement at COP29 marks a decisive shift...

 January 14, 2026

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