The commentariat’s consensus of an empty summit misses China’s embrace of a superpower disdain for multilateralism.

In India, despite the long-standing presence of the Registration of Births and Deaths (RBD) Act, enacted in 1969, the Civil Registration System (CRS) continues to suffer from systemic limitations that ...

In contemporary discourse, environmental policies—including those related to land, forests and climate change—are increas­ingly recognised as arenas of struggle over authority and state–citizen ...

Unemployment is largely an urban phenomenon, and mostly affects the young and the highly educated. As pointed out by the recently released State of Working India report (APU 2026), unemployment rates ...

With climate change, the state experiences two extreme weather events like summer heatwaves and severe monsoon rainfall, both of which lead to school closures to avoid calamities, while compromising ...

These concerns are expected, given that MGNREGA utilised public expenditure of just around 0.3% of India’s gross domestic product and provided employment to nearly five crore rural households annually ...

The state has witnessed the formation of governments by either the Indian National Congress (INC) or the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). Also, despite attempts, the so-called “third force” has not seen ...

The size and structure of this sector provide insight into women’s roles in the economy, highlighting both their contributions and the challenges they face in gaining formal recognition. Women ...

As the spectacle of violence gets unleashed, Gandhi is found examining his own assumptions on truth and perfectibility of humans, wondering about his self-realisation. The Diary provides glimpses into ...

Carbonised small millet seeds made up 15% to 55% of all the seeds collected from three different ecological regions within the IVC. Scientists have observed certain biases in millet preferences during ...

President Trump has signed into law a piece of legislation that authorises him to levy tariffs up to 100% on imports from nations that buy Russian oil. The official Indian response has been to say ...

Just transition” is a concept first used by the trade unions in the United States to protect workers from air and water pollution regulation, and has gained traction in climate conversations since its ...