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…
Rajasthan has become the country’s first State to lay down the minimum educational qualifications for contesting elections to village cooperative societies and various other cooperative bodies. The State Cooperative Societies…
The transport sector stands to benefit from the recently rolled out GST in several ways. Pre-GST: Pre- GST, the complex tax structure and paper work forced the transport industry to…
Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s recent visit to the U.S. is likely to deepen bilateral ties in multiple strategic areas. Among them, science and technology, a key driver for innovation and…
The NFHS 4 results demonstrate that the improvements over NFHS 3 are significant for many key indicators, but there are considerable rural, urban and inter State disparities in key indicators. …
Too many people still lack access to safe drinking water and safely managed sanitation, particularly in rural areas. This is the overriding conclusion of the latest Joint Monitoring Programme (JMP) report…
