Tag: India
On World Wetlands Day, a look at India’s quiet but transformational journey to conserve them
ndia’s recent environmental approach has focused less on protest and more on performance. Conservation today is being driven through policies, institutions, and measurable outcomes. This shift is most clearly visible in India’s growing commitment to wetland protection.
Reviving 200 legacy industrial clusters: India’s manufacturing sector gets “second wind” in union budget 2026
India’s manufacturing dreams are being rewritten in Parliament, with Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman’s Budget 2026 announcement to revive 200 legacy industrial clusters.
Uttarakhand Char Dham: Why the temple committees want the entry of non-Hindus banned
Their view of the Char Dhams as merely destinations, "rich temples", as tourism nodes for bringing good tourism-bucks turnovers, and as energy points of the state/Indian growth sectors, reveals their lack of devotion and wisdom.
Signals of change: Defence intelligence and India’s EU turn
This new India-EU Security and Defence Partnership isn't born from idealism but it's actually forged in the fires of a chaotic world.
India’s growth story in a changing world: Capital flows, geopolitics and the making of resilient prosperity
The Survey implicitly recognises this by underlining that, in all three global scenarios, disruption to capital flows and rupee volatility is the shared risk, differing only in duration and intensity.
VB-G RAM G: Why rural welfare must evolve beyond MGNREGA
The replacement of MGNREGA with VB–G RAM G (Viksit Bharat–Guarantee for Rojgar and Ajeevika Mission Gramin Act, 2025) has provoked protests claiming that the new law dilutes rights, burdens states financially, centralises power of the Union and disrespects Mahatma Gandhi’s legacy.