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Rejuvenating Rural Local Bodies through Effective Implementation of Jal Jeevan Mission

Using the share of panchayats’ own sources of revenue in the total revenue as an indicator of prudent financial management, this article assesses...

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Gopal Naik

What Matters for Learning in Maharashtra?

The PARAKH Rashtriya Sarvekshan 2024 data is used in the article to understand the correlations between contextual factors and district-level...

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Manasvi Khandagale

Competition or Cooperation?

Mainstream economics assumed that competition plays the most dominant role in mutual relations, ignoring the role of cooperation and...

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M V Nadkarni

The Spatial Paradox

As India charts its ambitious course to achieve “Viksit Bharat” —developed nation status by 2047—the success of this mission is inextricably...

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Ejaz Ghani

Community Service

The advent of community service, as a form of punishment in the Bharatiya Nyay Sanhita and the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023, has...

17.10.2025 2

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Saugata Hazra

Financing India’s Renewable Energy Transition

India’s energy transition is a critical component of its commitment to achieving net-zero emissions by 2070. Financing needs of $10.1 trillion,...

17.10.2025 1

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Deepak Kushawaha

Revisiting CSR in India

It has been a decade since the corporate social responsibility legislation in India was first implemented in 2014. Although aggregate CSR spending...

17.10.2025 1

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Atul Ghorpade

How Did Beijing View the Trump–Putin Warm Embrace in Alaska?

Following the Trump–Putin summit, analysing its outcome, experts outside China generally focused on the summit offering a useful point of departure...

17.10.2025 2

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Hemant Adlakha

Mobilising Policy and Public Finance Levers for Land Restoration in India

Identifying 20 schemes with at least one component related to land restoration under the Union Budget 2023, it was found that allocations by...

17.10.2025 2

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Anuja Malhotra

The Undercurrent of Ladakh’s Politics

After the bifurcation of the erstwhile state of Jammu and Kashmir into two union territories, J&K and Ladakh, the initial jubilation in Ladakh...

11.10.2025 2

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Zainab Akhter

Building a Sustainable Economy

The challenges and opportunities in financing solar energy enterprises in India are examined, with a particular focus on micro, small, and medium...

11.10.2025 3

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Arindam Bandyopadhyay

Rethinking Rice and Wheat

Despite their environmental and nutritional benefits, millets face significant challenges in profitability and productivity compared to rice and...

11.10.2025 2

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Shadman Zafar

Hydropower Development in the Brahmaputra River Basin

The Brahmaputra river basin holds immense hydropower potential but faces climate risks, ecological uncertainties, and geopolitical tensions....

04.10.2025 1

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Rupam Bhaduri

Labouring on the Margins

The ongoing protest of accredited social health activists in Kerala carries significant potential in shaping broader working-class solidarities...

04.10.2025 1

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Binitha V Thampi

A Divisive ‘Unite the Kingdom’ March

The austerity-imposed fallout of the 2008 financial crisis, leading to the crisis over Europe and immigration that Brexit was always about, has...

04.10.2025 1

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Amir Ali