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Why does India still need coal? Putting India’s use of coal in the right context
Dr J.R. Bhatt, Distinguished Fellow, VIF

Vivekananda International Foundation brings out a Policy Brief titled Why does India still need coal? Rich countries vilify coal with India as a specific target, while expanding on their own oil and gas resources. Nations like the UK, the...

April 22, 2025 Download
Tags: Coal phase down, Energy afordability, Geopolitics of energy, Global climate action, India energy needs, India energy security, Intermittency of solar and wind power, Governance and Political Studies
Synergizing Aspirations: Producing Indian’s Own Civil Passenger Aircraft
Gp Capt (Dr) Asheesh Shrivastava

With effect from January 01, 2025, the new act; ‘Bharatiya Vayuyan Adhiniyam-2024” comes into force. It replaces the 90 years old British era ‘Aircraft Act 1934’. Earlier, in August, 2024, the Minister for Civil Aviation Shri Kinjarapu Rammohan...

March 6, 2025 Download
Tags: National Security and Strategic Studies, Aircraft Act 1934, Bharatiya Vayuyan Adhiniyam 2024, Boeing Airbus, Indian Civil Aircraft, Indian Regional Transport Aircraft, Indigenous aircraft, Make in India, Defence, Governance and Political Studies
Conceptualising ‘One Health, One-Earth’ for Āyurveda
Rohith Krishna

In the 9th World Āyurveda Congress (WAC) organised by the Ministry of Ayush on 11/12/2022, India put forth the vision of ‘One Earth, One Health’ before the world. To put it in the words of Prime Minister Sri. Narendra Modi;

September 14, 2023 Download
Tags: Ayurveda, G20, One Health, One-Earth, Governance and Political Studies, Historical and Civilisational Studies
Foreign Universities in India: An Analysis on the Criticisms
Rohith Krishna

Is the arrival of foreign universities to India really a negative development? Of course there could be reasons both for and against. But ultimately, it wouldn’t be as harmful or alarming as it is portrayed, especially if the challenges are...

May 19, 2023 Download
Tags: college education, Foreign Universities, National Education Policy, university, UPA government, Governance and Political Studies, Historical and Civilisational Studies
Draft Telecom Bill 2022: A Step in the Right Direction but Concerns Remain
Maj Gen P K Mallick, VSM (Retd)

India is set to overhaul its telecommunication regulatory framework. The Ministry of Communications, Government of India, has released
a 40-page draft of the Indian Telecommunication Bill, 2022, along with an explanatory note for public...

November 25, 2022 Download
Tags: cyber sovereignty, digital inclusion, Telecom Bil, telecommunications bill, telecommunications draft bill, telecommunications regime, Governance and Political Studies
Ban on Popular Front of India - A Long Overdue Step
Abhinav Pandya

… strong legal measures, including a law on radicalization and terror funding are the need of the hour to clearly state that attempts to challenge India’s unity and integrity will be firmly dealt with ... red-lines need to be drawn for the media...

November 17, 2022 Download
Tags: National Security and Strategic Studies, anti-national activities, anti-terrorist capabilities, Islamist terror, PFI, Popular Front of India, radicalization, Violence, Terrorism, Governance and Political Studies
Repositioning National Cadet Corps to Drive Youth Development and Social Change
Maj Gen M Indrabalan, ADG, NCC (B&J)

… time and national resources deployed for mentoring and guiding the present generation of youth through the revamped NCC’s stables will definitely start yielding much larger outcomes …

October 25, 2021 Download
Tags: National Security and Strategic Studies, Building a strong nationhood, Character-building of youth, Dividends of young India, NCC, NCC in nation building, NCC modernisation, Restructure of NCC curricula, Governance and Political Studies
Reforms for Atmanirbhar Bharat
Aayush Mohanty

COVID-19 has exposed the serious strategic implications of India’s import dependence, especially on China. Politics, Policy and Pandemic are the challenges to Prime Minister Modi’s vision of Atmanirbharta (self-reliance). While the initiative is...

February 7, 2021 Download
Tags: Boycott China, COVID-19, economy, LAC, Reforms for Atmanirbhar Bharat, Self-reliance, trade, Governance and Political Studies
River Water Pollution - A New Threat to India: A Case Study of River Ganga
Major General (Retd.) Ajay Kumar Chaturvedi, AVSM, VSM

… pollution of water bodies is not only a function of higher human load but also on account of technology dependence and lack of awareness amongst the masses about the ill effects of pollution … but the most important factor is the indifference...

November 25, 2019 Download
Tags: Ganga Action Plan, Namami Gange, Quality of Water, River Ganga, River Water Pollution, Governance and Political Studies
National Register of Citizen: Genesis and Way Forward
Brig Sushil Kumar Sharma
Dr Mridusmita Baruah

… any new step invites appreciation or challenges. NRC in Assam was also an experimental device to curb the menace of the illegal influx of population from the neighbouring countries. Taking a cue from this, many States in India is also...

October 31, 2019 Download
Tags: Assam, Assam Accord, CAB, Citizen Amendment Bill, Issue of illegal migrants, NRC, NRC Process, Supreme Court, Governance and Political Studies
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