A recent United Nations (UN) supported summit in Geneva, “AI for Good”, focused on the potential of using AI technologies for achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) by 2030. The…
The internal security situation of the country has not shown any marked improvement. India’s complex internal security problems: The internal security situation is on a slippery slope. Jammu and Kashmir…
July 11 has been designated by the United Nations as World Population Day. The World Population Day was started in 1989 by the then governing council of the United Nations Development…
Good governance is basic to all reforms and changes in society. Given the significance of the bureaucracy in India’s development, some of the major changes need to be incorporated in…
Members and representatives of civil society organisations have expressed deep concerns on how civil society organisations and their donors are being labelled and targeted. They allege that their funds are…
According to the World Malaria Report 2016, India contributed 89% of the incidence of malaria in the South-East Asia region. As per the provisional epidemiological report 2016, there were over…
The Election Commission of India found 42 cases of “paid news” that contributed to Narottam Mishra’s victory in the 2008 Assembly elections in Madhya Pradesh. But there is no law…
The Maharashtra Prohibition of People from Social Boycott (Prevention, Prohibition and Redressal) Act, 2016, received Presidential assent last week, paving the way for its implementation. The new law disallows social…
India is home to 15% of the world’s undernourished population. Food security is a pressing problem in India and in the world. According to the Food and Agriculture Organization of…
Parliament is supposed to be a union of exemplary orators, with a grass-roots touch. Parliamentary debates, which once focussed on national and critical issues, are now more about local problems,…
