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How is India planning to boost EV production?..

26.04.24

The Government is pushing hard for transition to Green Economy. One vital aspect of this transition is transition to Green Mobility. Enhancing the share of Electric Vehicles in transportation is necessary to ensure green mobility. The finding of Lithium deposits in...

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The next frontier: On India’s space sector..

24.02.24

Space used to be the final frontier but its increasing exploration has changed that, replacing a romantic notion with narratives with financial, socio-economic, and geopolitical implications. Space technologies and space flight are expensive, risky endeavours that only...

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Ending discrimination: On the Union of India and Others vs Ex. Lt. Selina John case ..

24.02.24

The Supreme Court of India has come out heavily against another archaic idea with patriarchal overtones by observing that rules which penalise women employees for getting married are unconstitutional. “Terminating employment because the woman has got married is a...

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On shaping a national cervical cancer control programme..

24.02.24

Health is seldom uni-dimensional, and it must not be seen as such. Government policy, particularly, must fathom the entirety of the issue, and assimilate multiple aspects in a field strategy, for optimum realisation of the intended goal. Union Finance Minister...

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Red Sea blues: On India’s goods exports..

22.02.24

For the second successive month, India’s goods exports grew last month, albeit with a mild 3.1% uptick from a 1% rise in December. This marks only the fourth month of growth in outbound shipments in 2023-24, and the overall value of merchandise exports this year...

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Towards uniformity..

09.02.24

A Uniform Civil Code (UCC) is a desirable and progressive goal for a secular country. However, mere uniformity without making reasonable allowances for diverse cultural and social practices among different social groups may not be ideal. The UCC adopted by the...

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Disinvestment : Not by cosmetic changes alone ..

09.02.24

The recently released Interim Budget 2024 made a classification change – Disinvestment did not figure as a receipt item in the Budget documents. Earlier, disinvestment would be a separate entry under ‘miscellaneous capital receipts’. What was The...

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The severe erosion of fiscal federalism..

09.02.24

On February 8, Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan will lead a protest in New Delhi against the Centre for “placing Kerala on a financial embargo”. The Kerala government has accused the Centre of pushing the State into a severe financial crisis by...

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A sunshine initiative..

05.02.24

Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman’s interim Budget day speech reiterated a plan by Prime Minister Narendra Modi to supply power to one crore households in the country using rooftop solar panels. This would help households save ?15,000 annually, the Minister...

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Population priorities..

05.02.24

In what was an intriguing statement in her Interim Budget speech, Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman said that a high-powered committee will be constituted to consider the challenges arising from “fast population growth and demographic changes”. With...

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Poll posture: On the 2024 Interim Budget..

03.02.24

Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman’s sixth consecutive Budget speech was an election-eve, self-congratulatory report card on the economic achievements engendered by Prime Minister Narendra Modi and the two governments he has led since 2014. Echoing the Finance...

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