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October 21, 2021
Event Details: Organised by: Centre for Public Policy Research, Kochi. Date & Time: October 19, 2021 at 05:00 PM Webinar: Afghanistan Political Crisis: Regional & Global implications Proceedings Report Speakers: Dr. C. Christine Fair, Professor, Peace, and Security Studies Program […]
October 21, 2021
The past few weeks have seen high political drama in the state of Punjab where Captain Amarinder Singh resigned as the Chief Minister. This was followed a week later by the resignation of Navjot Singh Sidhu as the Punjab Pradesh […]
October 20, 2021
Organised by: Centre for Public Policy Research, Kochi. Date & Time: October 19, 2021 at 05:00 PM Webinar: Afghanistan Political Crisis: Regional & Global implications Proceedings Report Speakers: Dr. C. Christine Fair, Professor, Peace, and Security Studies Program at Georgetown […]
October 19, 2021
Introduction In 1946, during the Constituent Assembly Debates, one of the central questions was whether the states should be given autonomy to promote decentralisation or it should come from a firm central authority. The pro-strong center supporters were well aware […]
October 19, 2021
The raging coronavirus pandemic has necessitated concentrated efforts to contain the spread of the virus, leading to ‘covidisation’ of the health system. The diagnostic repurposing and redirection of funding, human resources, and infrastructure has led to neglect of other diseases. […]
October 18, 2021
The United Nations and the Bretton Woods institutions are 75 years old and unable to respond to contemporary challenges India was chairing the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) when the Americans hastily withdrew from Afghanistan and the Taliban took over […]
October 18, 2021
The energy used to build a single smartphone is equal to the energy required to operate it for about a decade. Rising temperatures have led to a variety of adverse environmental effects such as the melting of the polar regions, […]
October 14, 2021
On 27th September 2021, as the nation commemorated the 90th martyrdom of one of the greatest revolutionaries the country has ever seen; Shaheed-e-Azam Bhagat Singh, the AICC headquarters in Delhi was all set to chant the most reverberated slogan of […]
October 14, 2021
Goutham K A (Project Associate), Praseeda Mukundan (Senior Associate, Research) – CPPR Krishnakumar Thiagarajan (VP- Special Projects), P R Krishnamoorthy (VP- Delivery) – eGovernments Foundation Two years of pandemic have revealed several bottlenecks in governance and gaps to bridge. With the […]
October 14, 2021
Amid the disquieting silence of the state government, the Adani Group will formally take over the Trivandrum airport on Thursday. Thus far, the state government has been claiming — both inside and outside the assembly — that it will not […]
October 12, 2021
Covid-19 Pandemic drastically altered many things including Female Labour Participation Ratio (FLPR). Economists witnessed strange and asymmetric FLPR around the world prompting them to call it a phenomenon of “She-cession”. This article captures two decades of FLPR in the BRICS […]
October 11, 2021
Geographic contiguity built around the Mekong River plains, ancient socio-cultural connections, and collective modern history of colonial occupation by the French are significant triggers for Vietnam, Cambodia and Lao to converse beyond the ASEAN framework. In this context, it was […]
October 8, 2021
Event Details Date & Time: October 6, 2021; 5:00pm to 6:00pm IST Topic: Decoding the Economic Emergency in Sri Lanka Platform: Zoom Panelists: Speaker: Dr. Indrajit Coomaraswamy, Economist; Former Governor, Central Bank, Sri Lanka Discussant: Shivdas B Menon, Former Chairman, […]
October 7, 2021
This article is co-authored by CPPR Intern Yashasvi Pandit. The Law Commission of the state of Uttar Pradesh has come up with the highly debated and contentious draft of the Uttar Pradesh (Control, Stabilization, and Welfare) Bill, 2021.[1] The Bill […]
October 7, 2021
Countries are fighting two battles parallelly, one against the Covid-19 pandemic and the other against misinformation. The WHO describes this as an information pandemic – an infodemic caused due to the overabundance of false and misleading information in the form […]