India’s new labour codes, enacted in 2019 and 2020, are being implemented amid sustained opposition from trade unions and workers’ organisations. While much attention has focused on their...
India has dismantled one of the world’s largest rights-based public employment programmes and replaced it with a fundamentally different framework. The Viksit Bharat–Guarantee for Rozgar and Ajeevika Mission...
A year marked by volatile and selective use of trade policy instruments has reshaped the global trade landscape. The return of unilateralism, the weakening of multilateral institutions, and...
India’s digital payments journey is often showcased through the extraordinary success of the Unified Payments Interface (UPI). As it nears a decade since launch, UPI processes more than...
Few figures in India’s intellectual debates are invoked as reflexively as Thomas Babington Macaulay. His name has become shorthand for English, modern education, and an allegedly alien mindset....
The arrest of Ravindra Soni, the alleged mastermind behind the ₹1,000-crore BlueChip Group fraud, did not hinge on a dramatic chase or covert surveillance. Instead, it was a...
India’s nuclear power journey has long been caught between strategic ambition and institutional hesitation. Despite early technological capability, complex laws, investor uncertainty, and liability fears have prevented nuclear...
The United States is preparing for a major overhaul of its H-1B work visa regime, a move that could disproportionately affect applicants from India. By scrapping the lottery-based...
The global crude oil market has long been shaped by a simple assumption: producer cartels such as OPEC+ can influence prices by tightening or loosening supply. Developments in...
India’s export performance appears robust at the aggregate level, even as the rupee weakens and places the country among Asia’s poorer-performing currencies. But beneath these headline numbers lies...
