Articles
April 18, 2023
Inclusive growth relies heavily on the degree of digital penetration, making digital futures and sustainable development deeply interconnected. Development in the digital sphere is crucial to attaining SDG targets through resilient Digital Public Infrastructure (DPI) in which India is a […]
April 13, 2023
The pandemic posed several challenges to the education sector. Despite these, the whole education sector carried on unscathed, thanks to educational technologies and digital facilities. Educational technologies offer myriad benefits to all stakeholders and enhance the overall capacity of higher […]
April 13, 2023
Vietnam has taken a major step forward towards its 2050 Net Zero Commitment. In December 2022, it joined the Just Energy Transition Partnership (JETP) with the International Partners Group (IPG) comprising the EU, the UK, the United States, France, Germany, […]
March 24, 2023
Waste management systems are often failing in India, the latest example being the land dump at Brahmapuram in Ernakulam District, Kerala. The land dump of Kochi Municipal Corporation (KMC) located at Brahampuram, about 20 km away from the city, caught […]
March 20, 2023
The Kerala Budget for the year 2023-24 aims to “improve the standard of living of the people and create a sustainable and modern ‘Nava Kerala’ (New Kerala).” The state says that in the past year, more than one lakh new […]
March 15, 2023
The changing public policies related to waste management has been widespread across states in India including Tamil Nadu. The government authorities were always urged to recognise the increasing pollution issues and diseases caused by it to find effective technological solutions. […]
March 13, 2023
The Code of Conduct in the South China Sea (COC) has been languishing since the last two decades, and ASEAN Member States have not been able to extract a legally binding document from China. Consequently there is widespread pessimism among […]
March 1, 2023
Chatbots such as Bard and ChatGPT have been hogging the attentional bandwidth of people of all ages. From helping students complete assignments to answering questions about nearly anything under the sun, these chat tools provide responses that suggest human-like understanding of the nuances […]
February 28, 2023
Regulating AI technology has proved to be highly challenging for a variety of reasons including the sheer speed of its development, differing viewpoints within the tech stakeholder ecosystem and a notable non-uniformity in its deployment context, owing to the immense […]
February 23, 2023
India has a large and diverse transportation sector which caters to the needs of more than a billion people.The sector contributed around 6% towards the nation’s GDP. Mobility is one of the driving factors of progress and is necessary to […]
February 23, 2023
Pushbuttons have been working their magic since the late 1800s. From doorbells, elevators, remote controls, flight dashboards and intercoms to Hollywood escape panels and trapdoors, the tiny human-machine interface has been an equal opportunity enabler. And yet when this packet […]
February 14, 2023
The University Grants Commission (UGC) recently notified its latest Regulations 2022 to award the Ph.D. degree program. Some far-reaching changes have been introduced. and the removal of mandatory research publication and Ph.D. admission to four-year undergraduates with a one-year degree […]
February 13, 2023
Institutionalisation of the gender budget that started off in 2005, is still continued with an average of 4.6 percent of total expenditure being spent on issues relating to women over the past five years. The Gender budget statement of 2023 […]
February 8, 2023
കഴിഞ്ഞ വർഷങ്ങളിലേതുപോലെത്തന്നെ മൂലധന ചെലവിന് മുൻതൂക്കം കൊടുക്കുന്നതാണ് ഇത്തവണത്തെയും കേന്ദ്ര ബജറ്റ്. അടിസ്ഥാന മേഖല വികസനത്തിനുവേണ്ടി ഇത്തവണ മാറ്റിവെച്ചിരിക്കുന്നത് ജി.ഡി.പിയുടെ 3.3 ശതമാനമാണ്. ഒമ്പത് സംസ്ഥാനങ്ങളിലെ തെരഞ്ഞെടുപ്പ് നടക്കാനിരിക്കുന്നതും പൊതു തെരഞ്ഞെടുപ്പിന് മുന്നോടിയായുള്ള അവസാന ബജറ്റ് എന്ന നിലയിലും മാത്രമാണ് ഇത്തവണത്തെ ബജറ്റ് പ്രാധാന്യം അർഹിക്കുന്നത്. അടിസ്ഥാന മേഖലയിലെ വികസനം ചൂണ്ടിക്കാട്ടുന്നത് തെരഞ്ഞെടുപ്പിൽ വിജയ ഫോർമുലയാകുന്നുവെന്നതിനാൽ […]
February 8, 2023
The announcements made in the Union Budget 2023-24 are mostly on the expected lines. The trend towards increasing capital expenditure with every budget aligns with the mission projects previously announced. An increase in the outlay for the railways and coastal […]